Memory leak savegame size problem : V

» Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:40 am

Overnight, suddenly, I have a problem with my savegames getting bigger and bigger for no apparent reason.

The only two mods I was updating lately - Enhanced Blood and Convenient Horses - I did by following safety procedures. I created a clean savegame by stopping the script (in the case of Convenient Horses at least), saved, exited, uninstalled, restarted, saved again.

I did this many times before and it always worked. But not this time. I'm not even able to pinpoint it to those two mods. It might as well date back to another mod I installed days or weeks ago. Because even when I disable Convenient Horses and Enhanced Blood completely, then use fast travel and create some saves, they get bigger.

And by bigger I mean like up from 5mb to 18mb by just traveling from The Rift to the Whiterun staples...

Is there anything I can do? Any editor who could tell me if there are leftover scripts working unintendedly in my savegame?

I'd appreciate any kind of helpfull tipps. Thanks in advance.

» Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:06 pm

Were you doing anything different in game? Changing mods isn't the only thing that could cause this, if you had a dirty mod that only affected Riften, say, then you would only see a change once you went to riften.
Check your papyrus log, and post your load order (please) so we can have a more general view of the problem.

» Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:08 pm

Enable logging.
Look at the log.
See what script is causing the problem.

The log will look like this:

Spoiler

[07/09/2012 - 08:52:43PM] Papyrus log opened (PC)
[07/09/2012 - 08:52:43PM] Update budget: 1.200000ms (Extra tasklet budget: 1.200000ms, Load screen budget: 500.000000ms)
[07/09/2012 - 08:52:43PM] Memory page: 128 (min) 512 (max) 76800 (max total)
[07/09/2012 - 08:52:56PM] VM is freezing...
[07/09/2012 - 08:52:56PM] VM is frozen
[07/09/2012 - 08:52:56PM] Reverting game...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] Loading game...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] Cannot open store for class "aeSkyPortalsPowerSourceScript", missing file?
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Unable to get type aeSkyPortalsPowerSourceScript referenced by the save game. Objects of this type will not be loaded.
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] Cannot open store for class "aeSkyPortalsTeleportScript", missing file?
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Unable to get type aeSkyPortalsTeleportScript referenced by the save game. Objects of this type will not be loaded.
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] Cannot open store for class "ASAPMonitorScript", missing file?
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Unable to get type ASAPMonitorScript referenced by the save game. Objects of this type will not be loaded.
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] Cannot open store for class "ASAPScript", missing file?
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Unable to get type ASAPScript referenced by the save game. Objects of this type will not be loaded.
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Could not find type aeSkyPortalsTeleportScript in the type table in save
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Could not find type aeSkyPortalsPowerSourceScript in the type table in save
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Could not find type ASAPMonitorScript in the type table in save
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] warning: Could not find type ASAPScript in the type table in save
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:04PM] VM is thawing...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:51PM] VM is freezing...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:51PM] VM is frozen
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:51PM] Saving game...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:51PM] VM is thawing...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:54PM] VM is freezing...
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:54PM] VM is frozen
[07/09/2012 - 08:53:55PM] Log closed

(Wow... Copy and paste to the forum formats the log. Kewl!!)
Yours won't look like mine, but you'll be able to determine which script is bloating your save.
Then you might be able to work out how to fix it...
Good luck!