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I created this guide because I had the same problem and was really hard to find the solve of this problem on the internet.
If you are having a frame drops or shuttering when auto-save appears, please follow my steps on this guidance.
Frame drops when auto-save appears
Make sure that you have already saved at least one game’s saved slot. This guide will not work if you have an empty game’s saved slot.
Those frame drops while auto-saving is appearing is because that somehow this game doesn’t create save file into the same drive as your game is installed. That’s why we need “transform” our save file into the drive where your game is installed.
Step 1
Find your SnowRunner save files.
They should be somewhere like C:Program Files (x86)Steamuserdata<steam account ID>1465360remote
Step 2 [optional]
For safe keeping, backup your contents of the “remote folder” to your desktop.
Step 3
Create a new folder “Snowrunner symlink save” on the same drive as your game is installed.
For me this was my G: drive
Then move the contents from “remote” folder to this new “Snowrunner symlink save” folder.
Step 4
Delete the original “remote folder” within the directory from Step 1.
Step 5
Run Command Prompt as administrator! You need to open it as a administrator!
In an elevated command prompt, run the command:
mklink /D “E:Program Files (x86)Steamuserdata1*******61465360remote” “G:Snowrunner symlink save” and press ENTER.
You need to change the the drive letter or paths and steam account ID because I can have different paths and steam account ID than you.
For example, if your main SnowRunner save folder was in C: drive, and your new “Snorunner symlink save” folder is in “E: drive, and your steam account ID is 123456789, do this:
mklink /D “C:Program Files (x86)Steamuserdata1234567891465360remote” “E:Snowrunner symlink save”
Step 6
Test your game. There shouldn’t be frame drops when auto-save appears anymore.
Let me know, if this guide helped you with the problem.