Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Why I wish you could choose a different location for saves

Even on a highish end Western Digital SN850 for my C drive, loading times are super slow.

However my D drive is double the speed because I use Raid 0 SSDs for that (6.5k read speed C drive, 13k read speed D drive).

I wish I could have my saved games on the D drive as well to benefit. Also no, installing Windows to a raid partition is very ill advised because both windows doesn't play well installed on a raid configuration, and you lose access to trim, so such a drive would end up getting wrecked from page filing.

Are you sure the location of the saves matters for this? I don't think it does.

The save files are very small, it probably takes a few seconds to read them at most. The loading time is for the level itself the game generates. And yes the initial loading time after booting up the game is long, and loading a save is also long.. But that's because of the size of each area is so big.

On the Nautiloid load times are super short, because it's tiny.

Something tells me you're nowhere near act3.

Individually they're about 30MB+ and I got around 22GB in save files.

Huh... Ok, so they get big. Yeah I am still in act 1.
Actually they are around 17MB in size for me atm.

So, does it take a long time to save a game in later acts? Somehow I doubt it.

Writing a file usually takes longer than reading it, so if the act of saving a game isn't long, then the loading of the file isn't the issue.

Yes it takes longer to load the further in I get it seems.

I need to regularly verify the game files which seems to help with reverting to the original load speed, which is still longer than it would be if I could load off my Raid 0 SSDs.

I spent £700 on 2x4 Tb gen 4 drives when they were on black friday sales, and welp 6 months later they were £280 each but I needed them when I got them as I was full on my previous 4 Tb setup.

The 'location' isn't whats relevant. The drive speed is for loading times.

Just make a junction link
Move entire directory with saves to a location you prefer.
Delete original directory
Open windows console (with administrator privileges if necessary)
type:
mklink /j "full path to where directory originally was (as example C:\Users\"your-user-name"\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story) "full path to where dirrectry actually is right now"
If any directory have spaces - put that name in quotation marks
As a full example:
mklink /j C:\Users\DumbleDorf\AppData\Local\"Larian Studios"\"Baldur's Gate 3"\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story D:\BG3saves\Story

What this will do is create link to directory in location where original directory was. So game will think all files are still there, but windows will redirect it to actual location.