Autosave Tanks Game, auto-saving is too slow (lag \ freezing)

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• 01 Mar, '24
  Myth Merged

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  Every time the game autosaves, the game lags. Great game though, highly addictive.

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• 29 Sep, '21
  FuryoftheStars

  I get lag spikes when it autosaves. About 3 secs. I imagine map size and perhaps more so beaver population and how much you've built all factors into this, along with PC hardware.

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• 24 Sep, '22
  Thierry3D Merged

  Autosaves should not cause the game to pause or miss user actions. Why don't you just take an in-memory snapshot of the game state and write it to disk in small chunks during refresh latency?
  —Great game by the way!

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• 25 Sep, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Autosaves need to be improved" (suggested by Thierry3D on 2022-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 11 Jun, '23
  Patrick D Ethen Merged

  If I can't disable autosave can you get it to save smoothly without hitching? PC3600 Memory, Gen4 Rocket Plus SSD - shouldn't freeze :)
  Thank you!

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• 13 Jun, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Freezing during autosave" (suggested by Patrick D Ethen on 2023-06-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Jul, '23
  ANDREW ALBERT ROBINSON Merged

  it is slow wen it save

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• 10 Jul, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "make it faster" (suggested by ANDREW ALBERT ROBINSON on 2023-07-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 31 Aug, '23
  Vas

  Posted in 2021, and auto save has only gotten far worse since then. xD
  
  Yea, this really absolutely needs to be fixed. Seriously, I'm on an SSD, with a pretty powerful computer. The auto saves even on a fresh new map are heavy. Why not try and find a more efficient method?
  
  You could also improve auto saving by dumping useless information such as dead plants (With a suggestion of mine that'd be voided anyway), and allow the players to choose how often auto save happens or when. Like for example, if I only want it to auto save if I pause for longer than 5 seconds, but not more than once every 5 minutes.

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• 30 Sep, '23
  freddie Merged

  Every time an autosave happens, there is a massive lag spike

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• 30 Sep, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Autosave lag bug" (suggested by freddie on 2023-09-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Mar, '24
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Lag with every autosave" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-03-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Dec, '24
  TUA

  Games is freezing when auto save, i am crying.

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• 04 Jan, '25
  Sylvan

  Great game, been playing it for maybe a year now. However like mentioned above the autosave is a problem. My laptop isn't a gaming laptop, so the lag is expected (and happens regularly, especially when playing at 3x speed - even playing at 1x speed can be problematic), but I don't expect to be having this many issues with an autosave feature, not fun and often unplayable for long periods.
  The autosave occurs every 5 minutes and (at least for me) the game freezes for 30-60 seconds each time and only once the autosave has finished, it then proceeds to freeze again for another 5-10 seconds, eventually returning to normal framerate (26/9 at best with x2 speed). The game also freezes if I click outside the game window (or in from outside) and does an autosave whenever this happens which makes the freeze time much longer.
  Disabling the autosave also makes no difference. The game continues to freeze every 5 minutes regardless of if autosave is on or off.

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• 04 Jan, '25
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  Then it's clearly not a problem with autosave, have you checked that your CPU doesn't overheat?

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• 04 Jan, '25
  Sylvan

  I've played on my gaming laptop which can handle most high-powered games, does it on there too. If it is my laptop causing these issues, then why does it still happen when I turn the autosave off?

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• 05 Jan, '25
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  I can't do quiz troubleshooting sorry. Open a new thread and attach player logs of every machine you had that issue on and detailed description if you wish, then devs could try to investigate it. Instructions are in the pinned topic

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• 24 May, '25
  nick Merged

  on my 2020 M1 Macbook pro 13" (8gb ram), game runs well at a nearly locked 60fps, but whenever autosave triggers it freezes the game for a few seconds, not sure if intended or not, cities skylines does this to me as well though

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• 28 May, '25
  argargablar System

  "macos save is slow" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-05-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 11 Sep, '25
  TUA Merged

  When auto save are working, the game will be slow speed, slow responding.

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• 11 Sep, '25
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Bad "Auto save"" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2025-09-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 07 Jan
  Maddy

  Game freezes for 10-20 seconds every time it autosaves

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• 13 Apr
  tkenz

  2nd feedback with same issue, slow response if terain level are changed many levels. they wiil bot happen if i do not change terrain. there are 30++ large wind towers and 30++ water wheel when normal game are running. this issue is not animation loading.

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