Question Baldur's gate 3 quick save takes very long

[ScarletRaven]

Hello,
I have the following trouble with baldurs gate 3

When i try to do a quick save in baldurs gate 3, it takes about 10 seconds of locked screen till it finishes saving, and then an extra 2 seconds of frozen screen time when the "Quicksave successful" message is displayed on screen.

Disabling steam cloud saves did not help, deleting most save game files did not help. The only thing that seems to help is if I do a fresh installation of windows and DO NOT install any of the windows updates, but lately even that seems to fail. I tried to Manage 3d settings of nvidia by changing texture filtering to both quality and performance and it did not help. Sometimes messing with certain game settings will make the quick save game times normal but after a computer reboot the trouble starts all over again, so so far every time i accidentally solved the problem it only reappeared after a pc reboot.

Other games do not have this problem

There are my specs:

Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 22621) (22621.ni_release_svc_prod3.230622-0951)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: MS-7D22
BIOS: 2.B0 (type: UEFI)
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900KF @ 3.50GHz (16 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32650MB RAM
Page File: 6657MB used, 28040MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, no HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.4.9

Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device (POST)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_2488&SUBSYS_404E1458&REV_A1
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 24342 MB
Dedicated Memory: 8018 MB
Shared Memory: 16324 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
HDR Support: Not Supported
Display Topology: Internal
Display Color Space: DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G22_NONE_P709
Color Primaries: Red(0.639648,0.330078), Green(0.299805,0.599609), Blue(0.149414,0.059570), White Point(0.312500,0.329102)
Display Luminance: Min Luminance = 0.500000, Max Luminance = 270.000000, MaxFullFrameLuminance = 270.000000
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: LG IPS FULLHD
Monitor Id: GSM5AB8
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: HDMI
Monitor Capabilities: HDR Not Supported
Display Pixel Format: DISPLAYCONFIG_PIXELFORMAT_32BPP
Advanced Color: Not Supported
Driver Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_493585427225c794\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_493585427225c794\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_493585427225c794\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_493585427225c794\nvldumdx.dll
Driver File Version: 31.00.0015.5152 (English)
Driver Version: 31.0.15.5152
DDI Version: 12
Feature Levels: 12_2,12_1,12_0,11_1,11_0,10_1,10_0,9_3,9_2,9_1
Driver Model: WDDM 3.1
Hardware Scheduling: DriverSupportState:Stable Enabled:True
Displayable: Supported
Graphics Preemption: Pixel
Compute Preemption: Dispatch
Miracast: Not Supported
Detachable GPU: No
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Discrete
Power P-states: Not Supported
Virtualization: Paravirtualization
Block List: No Blocks
Catalog Attributes: Universal:False Declarative:True
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 2/7/2024 2:00:00 AM, 785168 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: Unknown
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-67C8-11CF-C863-41600EC2D235}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x2488
SubSys ID: 0x404E1458
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Driver Strong Name: oem5.inf:0f066de31a1a610b:Section071:31.0.15.5152😛ci\ven_10de&dev_2488
Rank Of Driver: 00CF2001

 

[rgd1101]

how big is the save file? I remember they have a bug with large save file

 

[ScarletRaven]

how big is the save file? I remember they have a bug with large save file

One save game file is 23.8 mb so now all of my save files are at a total of 680 mb

 

[Flayed]

You could try deleting your old saves and see if it helps

 

[ScarletRaven]

You could try deleting your old saves and see if it helps

That did help but only once, after i rebooted my PC the quick saves were taking just as long again

 

[Ralston18]

What is more important: the time needed to save or the the actual "save" itself?

Consider that "Quick Save" may be relative - to what is TBD.

I have (full disclosure) no idea.

12 seconds (ignoring possible adjectives) of "save" time in order to protect and recover X amount of game play time - maybe hours.....

Just my thoughts on the matter.