Save compression

[Ractaros96]

Hello, I have a question. Is it possible to disable save compression entirely? I don't mind bigger saves, I have a lot of space on my HDD. I've heard that compression takes most of the time in saving the game. I know that in WinRAR you can select no compression at all (which is the fastest). I still would like saves to be packaged, but not compressed. Is it possible to change it somehow?

[eradicator]

Config.ini has a setting for it (that's disabled by default).

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; Options: none, fast, maximum
; autosave-compression-level=fast

I doubt you'll see much improvement in savetimes though unless you have some weird edgecase like a huge map on a really fast SSD but slow CPU.

How long does saving take for you?

[Ractaros96]

Config.ini has a setting for it (that's disabled by default).

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; Options: none, fast, maximum
; autosave-compression-level=fast

I doubt you'll see much improvement in savetimes though unless you have some weird edgecase like a huge map on a really fast SSD but slow CPU.

How long does saving take for you?

I don't have such a line in config file, should I add it?

EDIT: I have added it below autosave slots count, but the whole 2 lines were deleted when I launched Factorio, even with semicolon removed.

EDIT2: I know what's wrong. I have 0.15.40 version of Factorio and that option was added in 0.16

[Zavian]

The option seems to exist in the config files for 0.16.16, but not in 0.15. I seem to remember a recent thread where Rseding mentioned adding it, so it probably won't work on older versions.

[Ractaros96]

The option seems to exist in the config files for 0.16.16, but not in 0.15. I seem to remember a recent thread where Rseding mentioned adding it, so it probably won't work on older versions.

I noticed, I just hope that experimental 0.16.16 is stable enough to play comfortably