AUTO-SAVE KILLS DRIVES
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The game engine is way too cautious in terms of backups for every player STEP. Hammering the drive is NOT healthy and can cause drive failures, especially with SSD that have stricter write limits. Early releases died in hours due to system OS caches. They have been redesigned to distribute writes over the entire drive, but the write limits still exist.
The game needs an option to TURN OFF auto-saves. The ODD/EVEN round ending saves are useful, but not every STEP. That's dangerous. Memory mapping to the drive is even worse. The battle calculator performing hundreds of mock battles may also be hammering the drive to record EACH battle. Back when memory was expensive, dumping to the drive was convenient but is no longer necessary.
The Engine Preferences does not currently have an option to turn off or restrict saves.
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@frigoref @LaFayette
Thoughts on giving this option in Engine Preferences?
