Lag while saving (Pokemon White)

Roryn · March 13th, 2011, 22:59

Hi! I'm having some problems while saving my game in pokemon white. When i try to save, the FPS drops to 5~7, which makes saving often a little annoying. It take a minute to finish.

Then i went at battery folder and my save has 8.193KB. I created a new game and saved at the very beginning. The new file has only 513KB.

Is this expected? When a little further in the game (not so further, 1 gym badge only), the save gets that big? Is this the reason why it's lagging so much when I save?

Thanks!

Doctor Who? · March 14th, 2011, 22:51

It's probably just your computer. What are your specs? What's your average FPS? When I run Black, the saves tend to take a while, maybe 10 seconds at most, but a full minute is ridiculous.

If the problem is your specs, just use savestates.

zeromus_ · March 15th, 2011, 00:06

its lagging because youre saving to a flash drive and desmume wasn't meant to handle that. it writes out every tiny change to the save file as soon as it is made, so as to avoid a nocash-like situation where the save file isnt synced to disk. we should fix that at some point.

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Doctor Who? · March 15th, 2011, 00:43

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Originally Posted by zeromus_

its lagging because youre saving to a flash drive and desmume wasn't meant to handle that...

Where did he state that...?

Roryn · March 17th, 2011, 21:13

Well, i get 60/60 fps during the whole game, only lags when saving. So, with what zeromus said... there's no way to solve that? I imagine that it'll take much more than a full minute when i'm far in the game.

Edit: Well, i just deleted the 8mb savefile and began a new game. Everything seems ok now, 513kb file. =s

Last edited by Roryn; March 22nd, 2011 at 04:42..

March 13th, 2011, 22:59	#1
Roryn Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 2	Lag while saving (Pokemon White) Hi! I'm having some problems while saving my game in pokemon white. When i try to save, the FPS drops to 5~7, which makes saving often a little annoying. It take a minute to finish. Then i went at battery folder and my save has 8.193KB. I created a new game and saved at the very beginning. The new file has only 513KB. Is this expected? When a little further in the game (not so further, 1 gym badge only), the save gets that big? Is this the reason why it's lagging so much when I save? Thanks!

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March 14th, 2011, 22:51	#2
Doctor Who? Registered User Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Awesomeville Posts: 12	It's probably just your computer. What are your specs? What's your average FPS? When I run Black, the saves tend to take a while, maybe 10 seconds at most, but a full minute is ridiculous. If the problem is your specs, just use savestates.

March 15th, 2011, 00:06	#3
zeromus_ desmume coder Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: the moon, duh Posts: 487	its lagging because youre saving to a flash drive and desmume wasn't meant to handle that. it writes out every tiny change to the save file as soon as it is made, so as to avoid a nocash-like situation where the save file isnt synced to disk. we should fix that at some point. __________________ Windows XP 32bit \| Keyboard with three wide by two tall cursor control block \| Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical \| Matrox M9120 \| vinyl floor mat \| RIP FD trinitrons 1997-2009

March 17th, 2011, 21:13	#5
Roryn Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 2	Well, i get 60/60 fps during the whole game, only lags when saving. So, with what zeromus said... there's no way to solve that? I imagine that it'll take much more than a full minute when i'm far in the game. Edit: Well, i just deleted the 8mb savefile and began a new game. Everything seems ok now, 513kb file. =s Last edited by Roryn; March 22nd, 2011 at 04:42..