Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems save game file

ha!!!
not even to the end of the second act, and my savegame file is already 6.3 gigs!! wooooo!
dang good thing i have monster harddrives (can i say that here??!!??) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />
i can just imagine the space used by kiya and raze! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I remember DD saves were rather big but 6.3 gig? You sure?

Hi lego,

Ups... that's not really the intention...
Could you please send this to support@larian.com and the description of your problem?

Thanks.

And our apologies for this.

Lynn

*MOD*
With which patch are you playing?

oh no lynn. it's NOT a problem. it's just funny!
there was another post some time ago about savefile sizes...and a number of comments were made about 'why would anyone have so many saves??'
anyway, i had a good time doing my thoughts on archery for DD and anticipate(d) doing the same for BD - thus all the save points.
this allows me to re-create without having to re-play just for clarity.
i have a zillion save points already, and it's truly by my own doing.
i also play a bit differently than how the designers think or plan (or for that matter, how most players play!). i absolutely MUST do e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
if there is an unopened chest, i'm unhappy. unexplored area (even black!), no way! and don't even ask what i'm like with an unfinished quest!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />
because i tend to 'clear out' areas before doing the quests, i often find i must start or go back over areas. this also is helped with a ton of save-spots.

oh, and yeah, i'm quite sure i'm over 6.3 gigs in BD saves - too many saves ha!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />
look at all those folders!! woooo!
thanks for the worry lynn...but no need!
lego

For act 1 and 2 I have 7.3GB of saves, but they have been zipped down to 572MB. My games partition is only 6GB of an 8GB drive. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

The freeware 7-zip has a better compression ratio than other archive managing programs I've tried, though I use ZipMagic as well (especially for extracting / modifying).

160 folders! how did you ever think of all those different names? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Dude, you nearly gave me a heart-attack <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> You mean your "savegame folder" with over a hundred savegames.

ha!! yes, my 'savegame folder' with over a hundred 'savegame folders'!!
most of the games i play don't have seperate folders for each save (though some do) - they're just a collection of files under 'saves' or something.
your game has a collection of savegame folders under the savegame folder...so i assumed everyone would realize when i said 'file' it was just short for file folder.
hope 911 arrived in time! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Hehe, no really, imagine coming into the office and there's someone running around like mad, going "there's a guy on the forum with a 6 gigabyte savegame" and we're all like "wtf" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

???
'Whoppingly Tremendous File'? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

oh...and see in the 'too many saves' pic (4th post in thread), it shows the 'Beyond Divinity' folder. among the single files listed underneath 'savegames', you'll see 'config.div'. note that my system picked it up as a DivX movie.
this was the problem for a lot of people (which most have resolved i believe).

Lego, I've got a partition of 40 GB each (German/English versions) - and in those partitions I have a bunch of different versions - Barnie taught me how to tamper with my registry. English partition has 5 GB left, German 17 MB.
Kiya

And if the patching goes on - I will either have to rar/zip (yuck) or buy a 2nd harddrive <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> (hmm, never built in, formatted, installed one all alone by myself - I think, my fingers are starting to itch... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> )
Kiya