Yes, sorry. The replies from other people cover what I would have said. I tested locally and went over each listed location and trimmed them and it reduced memory usage from 12 GB to 5 GB and reduced the save size from 700 MB to 250 MB. Can you help me understand better what you did in more detail....

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2024 1:32 pm

The link to the save file is listed as private so I can't download it.

were you able to download the file?

I followed the recommendation from Stringweasel and deleted over 50,000 chunks!

She was chunky!

:: UPDATE ::
I saved, closed, completed restarted PC. Starting game and I do not see a noticeable difference. Do I need to do something additional? Maybe there is another piece of the puzzle.

I changed the access rights to the file, you should be able to download it now.

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