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[Dead Reckoning]

Is there any way to disable the screenshots that are created when you save your game.  Or maybe a way to redirect where the games are saved?  Or save the screenshots in a compressed format?  I'm Currently running extremely low on disk space now and I just realized Dragon Age is saving 10 MB .DDS screenshots for every save.  After over two full plays, I have over 2.5 gig of save game data and only about 2 gig left of free space.

My games are installed on a 1TB drive.  But my OS drive is a smaller, faster 70 gig drive.  I only use that drive for OS related stuff, but a lot of newer games save a lot of data in my documents area instead of inside the game directory.   I'd like to avoid reinstalling everything in my system from scratch just to add a bigger C drive to store saved games.

And 10 mb of save game data with 9.5 mb used just for the 1920x1080 screenshot seems unnecessary to me.  If I play this game through as much as I played the first Dragon Age, I'll easily use more memory to store the saves than the game itself uses.  Which reminds me, I better check to see how much DA origins and Mass Effects are using.

Modifié par Dead Reckoning, 05 avril 2011 - 08:30 .

[dinria]

Go trough the menu options there is probably one box for disabling the screenshots, at least there have been in DA:O and I don't think they have removed it in DAII

[Dead Reckoning]

There is no option to disable screenshots. I checked DA:O, it has an option to disable story and achievment screenshots. Not sure if that applies to the saves or not, but the story screens are only 400 mb for all my saves. But I just found out that my DA:O save games are taking up over 18 gig of data.  The bloat comes from the actual save game file which is average 13 mb as the game progresses.  

By comparison:
Dragon Age origins DAS file: 13 MB heading up to 17 MB for saves in the addon packs.
Dragon Age origins DDS screenshot file: 65kb

Dragon Age 2 DAS file: 700 KB
Dragon AGe 2 DDS screenshot: 9 MB

I'll have to go through all of my characters and delete 90% of my save games to make room on my drive.

Modifié par Dead Reckoning, 06 avril 2011 - 04:24 .

[Sith Vicious]

I use a similar configuration and it would really be great if we could choose the path for the saves and the dlc installation (as in DA:O DVD version, DLC were installed in the My Documents folder too, not sure for DA2). Before I realized the issue and cleaned most of the saves, the Bioware folder used 25% of the free space I had on my system disk (while of course I had hundreds of Go available on the installation disk).

[Luke Barrett]

You dont *need* the .dds files to load the game so you can manually delete them all with a search for *.dds.

On that note, I just tried this and my .dds files are 64.1KB so your screenshot settings are super high quality (as you playing on very high settings?)

(update: I have some saves from community members that have .dds files up to 8mb, im guessing its a product of system settings. I'll verify if this is true and see if there is anyway to take lowres shots for these images - the dx9 ones are clearly incredibly small comparativel)

Modifié par Luke Barrett, 06 avril 2011 - 09:19 .

[Dead Reckoning]

I am running DA2 at HD resolution with the Hi-Res texture pack and DX11. All of my screenshots are saved at HD res. DA:O saves only low res screenshots. But the save game itself is really big. I assume the difference in filesize between DA:O and DA2 relate too how much more stuff like the inventory of you and your party DA:O has to keep track of that DA2 does not.

For now, I've gone through 3 characters in Origins and deleted all but the last 5 save games for those characters. That freed up about 4 gig of space on my hard drive. One of those characters (From my first playthrough), suffered from the glitch where I had been disconnected from the Dragon Age servers in the middle of the game. That glitch effectively broke all of the DLC content for the duration of the game. But it also might be the reason why my first character had over 500 save game slots. My newer characters only had 200. And of course DA2 only uses 100 slots - so far.

And I double-checked my save games for Mass Effect 1 and 2. They are tiny and are not contributing to my disk usage problem.

Thanks for looking into this for me, Luke.

[bot_killer]

Note for those that has a Small OS drive and large hard drives for the majority of your content.

You can change the location of your My Documents folder to be another HD, eg. you D: drive with 1TB of space instead of C: with 100gb.

right click on your my documents folder, Go to properties. Open location tab. Change location to D:

[passionata]

Heyas Luke!

It has been a while but I suggested to change the format used for the savegame screenshots, I am one of those with 8mb .dds files per screenshot. Playing on 1920x1080,dx11,very high. The engine can read jpgs if you renamed .jpg to .dds after converting, so it shouldn't too hard to change that with a patch.

.dds: 8.7mb
vs.
.jpg: 1.4mb @100% jpg quality, 80% should suffice and offer even more compression.

Modifié par passionata, 10 avril 2011 - 09:12 .

[Fraevar]

@OP: Alternatively you can have Windows change the location of the My Documents folder. I had to do that, since I was in the same boat as you. I put it on the drive where I install applications instead and it runs fine. support.microsoft.com/kb/310147

[Dead Reckoning]

@bot_killer
Thanks for the tip. That will solve my storage issues. But does not change the fact that the 9 mb screenshot is highly inefficient. I guess I'll just have to live with the 17 mb save games that Origins creates and clean out older saves as I complete the characters.

[Withidread]

I moved the my documents folder on my machine for this same reason. I don't recall right now how large the saved game data ended up being on my first couple playthroughs, but I remember it being large enough to turn my eyes into saucers.

[Bfler]

Is there finally a solution for that problem? 8 MB in DX11 is a bit large compared to 65 kb in DX9.