[A16] Is there a way to reduce generated world surface in a savegame?

[Alerius]

Hi everyone,

I did a quick search in the forums, but maybe I just didn't pick the right search term, I'm blind or there is no thread on this topic:
but is there a way to reduce the generated world surface size in a savegame?
Or can you reduce the size of new generated colony maps in a savegame?

You may ask, why would I do that?
Answer: I went completly nuts by maxing out everything regarding map size. So my game crashes a lot now (I started a second colony - I know it's not recommended - but I like to make a small mining outpost). So it's mainly for performance reasons.
And to make things worse, I use alot of mods :/

So maybe someone can point me in the right direction? Because crawling through a 48mb savegame file not knowing what I'm exactly looking for is a bit hard and time consuming.

Thanks in advance for any help

[CreepyD]

I doubt very much that you would just be able to shrink a world already created.
All the things generated in that world have co-ordinates on the planet.  What happens when you force shrink the planet and those co-ordinates suddenly no longer exist?  I'm going to guess it will crash on load.

Working out why it's crashing from some log file might be a better course of action, although I'm not sure how you do that myself.
Any idea how much RAM the game is using compared to what you have?

[ison]

If you want to change the size of the maps then you can edit your savefile and look for <initialMapSize>, but note that it won't affect already generated maps so you'll have to resettle. You can't change the planet coverage that easily though.

[Alerius]

thanks for the responses!
regarding RAM and stuff: game uses 3 Gigs out of 16 Gigs (total usage is 8 Gigs of RAM - so there would be 8 Gigs left)
If I'm reading the error.log (see attachments) correctly the nvidia graphic driver (version: 376.22) throws a violation... did somebody else get something like that? driver was published 14.12.2016 - didn't have problems before...

thanks for the "initialMapSize" - sadly my game crashes before I can abandon my second colony - even if i get my guys to abandon it, game crashes anyway.

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