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keep less stuff.. if you have 20 world leagues actuve, cut it down to jsut your MLB and minors.. that's really all the stuff you can do and maybe not want to do etc. it has to do with how much and how large the stuff you are working with. 10,000 tiny little 1kb news stories takes more time than larger contigous blocks of data. that tiny crap will run at 4-6MB/s on most HDDs. the larger files 100-150MB/s. quite a difference, eh?
i'v made more than one suggestion to alleviate this problem before. it needs to be in 1 file, not 10000s of individual fiels and it needs to be pre-allocated chunks of space so that it's contigous cunk of data written and read. (read into memory while palying, then written to disk when saved - as a full 50mb preallocated chunk at a time etc. as many chunks as needed at whatever size etc. anything better than drowning in 1kb files)
make it save only 1 a year - it still does it each time you close, regardless.
other than that, you could get an ssd storage device instead of a hdd. (ie hardware upgrades) 2 of them in raid "x" would be the fastest response times for writing and reading from a storage device(s). raid 1, raid 0? you'd have to read up on the minutiea. it's been too long since i've done that.
even with an SSD, it's going to be slower for the multitudes of tiny files. probably closer to the ~max of a HDD though, so 20x faster or more, nonetheless, on the news and history related stuff.
honestly, this game is extremely hard on storage devices.. all you have to do is watch your resource monitor for HD useage and compare to any other program or game you will ever run.. it's madness.
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