Save file too big?

[sanabas]

I've just started playing civ 5 again, so tried to submit a few games. One of which was a huge marathon game. After it finished submitting, the message said 'thanks for submitting blahblah', where blahblah was the final save name. However on the submissions list, it's showing as a turn 0 game. Had a look at my list of saves, and the later saves are all 2-3 MB, which I assume is why they're not registering. Any way to make them smaller while still being in a format the hof submitter will accept?

 

[Denniz]

I've just started playing civ 5 again, so tried to submit a few games. One of which was a huge marathon game. After it finished submitting, the message said 'thanks for submitting blahblah', where blahblah was the final save name. However on the submissions list, it's showing as a turn 0 game. Had a look at my list of saves, and the later saves are all 2-3 MB, which I assume is why they're not registering. Any way to make them smaller while still being in a format the hof submitter will accept?

I had one report of a bigger save file since the patch. You make two. I was getting ready to post a question so see who else was seeing the size increase.

The max upload size is a server setting. I have asked Thunderfall about changing it. Probably won't happen until after the server move wednesday. Hang in there.

 

[sanabas]

No worries, thanks. My save files for that game range from 1846 kb at turn 360 to 3029 kb at turn 778. 6 saves in there, increase looks roughly linear, 100 turns = 300 kb.

 

[pholtz]

I am also playing a Huge Marathon game, still in progress. Probably going for time victory. ( I know, I'm a masochist).

Looking at my auto saves, they went over 2 meg on turn 495. I am currently on turn 979 and the file size is 3.197 MB.

 

[Denniz]

Good news. Thunderfall increased the max file size setting. I was able to upload the 2.5 MB file that Bram had e-mailed for #1009. (Which is now accepted.) Please submit you any game you have holding waiting for the fix.

Note: If you have an excluded game out there that was incomplete due to file upload size issue, please do one of two things:

• E-mail us the missing saves so we can add them to the game. (Please include game #).
• Re-submitted the game and E-mail us that the new game number and let us know you resubmitted due to file size issue so we know it is not just a duplicate submission.

 

[sanabas]

I just submitted game #1290, and it failed again. Largest file is the victory one, at 3029 Kb. I'll email the files.

 

[Denniz]

I just submitted game #1290, and it failed again. Largest file is the victory one, at 3029 Kb. I'll email the files.

I was able to upload your two files over 2MB. I guess I need to check for a limit in our submit code again. I looked for something like that once already with no luck.

 

[Denniz]

I just submitted game #1290, and it failed again. Largest file is the victory one, at 3029 Kb. I'll email the files.

I think I found it. Please try again.

 

[sanabas]

I think I found it. Please try again.

Think I deleted them since that game was accepted. I'll have a look. Or just start a new huge marathon game.

 

[sanabas]

Still had it, I'd only saved over the start file, hadn't purged my save folder.

Submitted with no problems this time, game #1322.

 

[pholtz]

I just submitted a huge Domination Victory. The last turn was in the year 2001, and the file size was 3,605 KB or 3.6 MB. It seems the game was submitted with no problems.

I had 300 turns to go if I went after a time victory. From the increase in file size per turn, it looks like the turn 1500 save file would be over 4 MB in size. So to ensure all files can be submitted in the future, I think the max file size needs to be 5MB.

 

[Denniz]

I just submitted a huge Domination Victory. The last turn was in the year 2001, and the file size was 3,605 KB or 3.6 MB. It seems the game was submitted with no problems.

I had 300 turns to go if I went after a time victory. From the increase in file size per turn, it looks like the turn 1500 save file would be over 4 MB in size. So to ensure all files can be submitted in the future, I think the max file size needs to be 5MB.

Good to know. I will bump it up to 5MB.