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MrMostDefinitely

Fyi on Quicksave and Autosave for consol players

Im 15 days into my first playthrough and noticed that as time goes on the game runs rougher. Slower load times, more crashes, wtc.

Quicksave used to be like 4 seconds. Now its closer to 12. Autosave can run 20 seconds. The point of these types of saves is that it will save while you keep playing, but anyone that has ever gotten the game to freeze or crash midsave knows it leads to a corrupted file.

I just noticed today that if you pause the game during a quicksave or an autosave, the process is almost immediate. I use to find myself standing outside a door waiting for freaking autosave to finish because i feared enter that door would crash my game and corrupt my autosave file.

Problem no more!

TL:DR

If on consol (im on xbox) you keep getting lingering quick saves or autosaves just pause the game to get it to process more quickly.

Posted Apr 9, 2017, 8:55 PM UTC

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LifeIsARollerCoaster•

Delete the older saves and free up some space on your xbox. It sped up once I did that. There is also some kind of hard limit on the number of saves in xbox so you cannot have unlimited saves anyway

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HugeRedditChem user•

Are you not on xbox1? I'm currently trying to do your trick but on Xbox the "pause" button in what brings up the quicksave?

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MrMostDefinitelyOP•

The button that brings up the quicksave/save/load/optioms menu.

If the top left of the screen says "quicksaving..." or "autosaving..." and it is taking a long time, go into the pause menu. It speeds it up. My game is really bogged down and while i prefer leave autosave on it frequently takes 20+ seconds to fully complete while im playing.

Pausing the game cuts that down significantly

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HugeRedditChem user•

Weird, when my Xbox is auto saving or quick saving, I can't do anything. It literally stops the game while saving for me.. I'm

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MrMostDefinitelyOP•

Mine is like that to kinda. It will pause for like 3-4 seconds and freeze the screen. But then the game will resume and i can play as it attempts to finish saving.

I always wondered why they wouldn't keep releasing more and more DLC, warcraft style. Pretty such its tech limitations.

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