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4 years ago

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Cache being saved to documents, which gets synced by Onedrive

Battlefield seems to save settings and cache files to userfolder\Documents\Battlefield 2042, which is contrary to all Microsoft Guidelines. These should instead be stored in userfolder\AppData. This...

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sk1lld
1 year ago
@RayD_01 spotted that the cache folder has been moved to the \BattfieldGameData.kin %appdata% folder out of MyDocuments folder. Guys let me know if you can use OneDrive again!

I_DYN4MO_I

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

If I delete the shader cache in the documents folder it seems to run smoother before it gathers shader cache files.

Shouldn't the point of it have the opposite affect?

direct3r

Seasoned Ace

3 years ago

@I_DYN4MO_Isame feeling here... before the last patch I restricted the access to the cache folder so none gets created, but with 1.1 patch the game will not run anymore by doing this.
Now after 2-3 days of heavy playing the game feels like it's running worse and I'm gonna try and delete the cache again(it's also very big 1,5gb)

edit after trying out: somehow it runs better again after deleting the cache and it's 3.5k files...