» Thu May 31, 2012 7:56 am
22 saves @ 8MB each is nothing.
My savegames are ~12MB each (Level 68) and I have a coupla dozen.
But saving should be almost 'instant' (as you remember it being) so there's some problem.
It's possible your rig was just strung out, needed a reboot?
Otherwise, rigs become saturated when you have only one harddisk, especially if it's slow, and you are swapping lots of data to your page file while loading new areas - and in the middle of this you're trying to write a save file.
Your harddisk can do only one thing at a time.
But 30 seconds plus is pretty grim... that's not good.
Tune up your rig, run disk cleanup, then set the harddisk to check for file system errors upon next reboot. Reboot.
Then defrag your harddisk, I use Defraggler, but there's one built into Windows.
(Hopefully you don't have like 50 screenshots in your Skyrim folder, @ ~5MB each...)
See if this problem persists; hopefully it will not.
Good luck to you, and keep us posted if you're still having this problem.
You'll then need to give us full specs on your rig, including a DXDiag report.
It's possible one of your mods may be choking on the latest v1.5 update,
Regards