watch your saves folder

[Krauser]

I'm one of those players that likes to save every turn. I don't usually need all the saves, but I feel better having lots of options in case of a crash and saves are tiny right? WRONG.

I happened to be looking through my saves on the hard disk when I discovered a single save is about 90MB. Just 11 saves is ~1GB of used space. My saves folder was over 5GB already. The requirements for this game should say you need 20GB of free space. I can't believe they use up this much space. It's like they are all short movies.

I have about 300GB free space but it still annoys me that saves would be that large. I immediately deleted saves from all my finished campaigns except the last one. Hopefully 10 saves is enough for ongoing campaigns, because that's all I will be keeping from now on. I'm still using around 1.5GB but better than before I guess.

Everyone should check their saves folder to make sure they are not using more space than they want to be.
Vista: C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\save_games
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\save_games (RTI saves) ~ Didz
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\save_games (GC saves) ~ Didz
AppData is a hidden folder so you need to enable viewing of hidden files in the control panel. You can copy/paste the path into your browser, putting your correct user name in.