I am using a mod and I make saves for every choice. So both. Not going to lie about it. I also know it's my own fault. In fact, my last post about this was saying that I broke the phone ingame somehow. This is one of a few games I make tons of saves in.
My box's settings don't have anything to do with it. But, if you want to know:
Ryzen 2700x
32gigs - 3600mhz ram
Asus x470 prime pro
Samsung 970 pro 1tb x2
Nvidia 1080ti
Windows 10 pro 22h2
Well, I think it would mostly be due to using mods. If you're using Sancho's mods, then I'd suggest hitting him up with a fix. He's really the only one who really knows what he's doing. I'm sure other modders are quite capable in scripting/programing as well. But Sancho really is a step above. For 1, he cares about how people use his scripts/mods. And secondly he listens.
I personally don't use mods, not even his, but I've seen how he deals with things and how he codes. The man knows his stuff. We also have to keep in mind that DPC goes out of his way to thwart users who use mods. He writes routines in his scripts to detect mods and break them intentionally.
Your rig seems respectable enough to be able to handle a large save cache, perhaps just the CPU's onboard cache might be a bit limited with 16mb of L3 cache (but that's not bad either way, I'm just comparing it with more recent models is all). Your ram wouldn't be the issue at those specs.
Reason why knowing what the CPU and RAM specs are, is good to post along with your errors is simply because Renpy based games don't use much of the graphics adapter's resources, just it's memory but very rarely the actual GPU for acceleration. I haven't seen any VN's from Renpy animate using the GPU (I'm sure there's probably a couple out there). So they're more CPU heavy rather than graphically.
So knowing this, screen resolution would also have an impact on older CPU's (which in your case wouldn't be an issue). Even though it's an older generation of Rizen it's still up to par, and quite capable.
And having excessive saves, how Renpy works is it doesn't load individual saves as you navigate your save menu, it loads them all up simultaneously at game load and keeps the saves in memory. So using features like "back" to rollback a decision or choice, will often cause errors because of how RAM will try to cache stuff to disk. On the latter, I'm not 100% sure of that, this is a behavior I've been trying to figure out, but it all hints to this method.
Now I feel kinda dumb going through all of that just to ultimately suggest you just hit-up Sancho himself for help in sorting that out. Unless of course, you're not using his mods. Then you can expect a "fuck off and use my mod" from him. lol
Even if I don't use his mods, I still have a lot of respect for his talents and knowledge.
