Autosaves freeze the game and take significantly longer than manual saves

[trail forge]

Every time the game autosaves (5 minutes or so) my entire game freezes for usually around 30 seconds to a minute, and there have even been a few times where it crashes upon trying to autosave. However, whenever I do a manual save it only takes about 5 seconds and the game doesn't freeze at all. I don't really understand why there is such a difference between manual and autosaves, especially because usually there are not a lot of changes needing saving. I have quite a powerful computer, and my files are being saved on an SSD so I doubt that it is a hardware issue. Has anyone encountered this before or have a solution?

[raw jay]

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[hexed plaza]

I've had a similar problem.
I think, I'm not sure, that the problem occurs when you try to do something while it saves. Like for example building a building or a segment. If you wait approximately 10 seconds, then at the top right the "packaging" text should have disappeared and you can do whatever you want

[vagrant cobalt]

Are you running low on RAM availability though?
I've seen cases where (auto)saving crashes people's game

[sharp hound]

define powerful computer

[trail forge]

ryzen 3700x, 3080 ti, 32gb 3600MHz ram

[trail forge]

I've got 32 gigs, my game usually takes about 20 (i use a heavily modded game) and there's usually ~6 not in use

I haven't checked usage while autosaving though, that may spike causing the freezes

[vagrant cobalt]

6 free or 6 being cached?

[azure cape]

I’ve disabled autosaves entirely and instead just use the F1 hotkey for manually creating quicksaves instead whenever I do any work. I’d recommend you do something like that, it has pretty much obliterated the many crashing issues I used to have when I had autosave on. It needs a bit of training and you’ll need to periodically access your saves folder (like once a month or so) to delete some saves though, because it creates new saves every time you hit F1

But imo that’s a good thing cause you actually end up having backups if your save breaks!