[TIP] Move BF Settings folder to other location or to SSD for better performance

Every Battlefield game creates it's Settings Folder located inside user Documents. It contains your profiles, custom in-game settings and also game cache.

Now, entire purpose of cache is to be frequently and instantly accessed by the game when needed. SSD does that a lot faster than your old crunchy HDD that can't keep up, causing stuttering and impacting performance. Keep BF Settings folder and cache on SSD if possible. Right?

But what if Documents folder sits on some regular old hdd like mine did? Can you just move BF Settings somewhere else? 

Well you can't. Setting folder must always be in Documents, that's where the game expects it to be. Can't change it and that's final.

... or is it?

Just use  SYMBOLIC LINK!  In short it's like a fake folder that's really a shortcut redirecting to another folder.

Instructions:

• Go to Documents, rename "Battlefield 2042" folder to something else like "Battlefield 2042 Old Settings"
• Create new empty settings folder in your new chosen location. Lets say we name it "Battlefield 2042 New Settings" but you can name it whatever you want.
• Open command line as admin (click start, type "cmd", right click, run as administrator).
• Type command as below, just use your actual paths.

mklink /d "C:\Users\you\Documents\Battlefield 2042" "D:\your_new_custom_location\Battlefield 2042 New Settings"

• Done. You've created a shortcut that acts like a real folder so the game thinks it's precious settings folder is still there, but really it's somewhere completely different.
• Copy content of your "Battlefield 2042 Old Settings" to "Battlefield 2042 New Settings" if you want to keep your in-game settings as before, if you don't the game will just reset everything to default. You can delete old "Cache" folder just in case, can't hurt. Game always seems to be working a bit better when i do that.