PreBakeCache.bin

[panzerkampfwag0n]

What the heck is a PreBakeCache.bin and why is it taking up 16Gb on my C drive SSD???

[panzerkampfwag0n]

This is so stupid I never told the game to install anything on my OS drive, let alone a damn file this big.

[Karasu Shiro]

i'd like to know too... Wtf is this?

[SAF]

No wonder my C: is much lower, someone tell us what this is

[NomNom]

I am going to take a wild guess and say Pre-bake is some sort of pre-baked lighting cache for arenas or such to reduce real-time demands on the GPU by lighting calculations. But I could be totally wrong.

[Highway]

Originally posted by No_One✔:

I am going to take a wild guess and say Pre-bake is some sort of pre-baked lighting cache for arenas or such to reduce real-time demands on the GPU by lighting calculations. But I could be totally wrong.

Yea thats pretty much exactly what that cache is, all objects in the game have pre-baked lighting (as opposed to ray tracing) so its just for shaders essentially. If deleted it regenerates the cache. I used a syncronised folder link trick so was able to move that to the install drive instead of windows, for faster use.

[CRAZY ENZO]

When I first launched the game I think it ate up some of the stuff in my user folder and left me with about 2 MB of space on my C: drive. Yes, MB not GB. And on top of that it was only 8 GB when I did that. if I hadn't looked around about this file I wouldn't have known it'd swell to 16 GB.

Why on earth does this need to be on the C: drive? I haven't installed anything on this drive in years because of crap like this and now I'm still running out of room on it. While it's still an SSD I can't imagine it'd be better than being on the much-newer NVMe I installed the game onto which had, and still has, all the space in the world.

Originally posted by Highway:

I used a syncronised folder link trick so was able to move that to the install drive instead of windows, for faster use.

Symbolic link? Something else? I need to try it since this isn't the only game or program I have that thinks C: is the only place to put literally anything at all.

At least here it's just all one big file.

[panzerkampfwag0n]

Thanks good idea I did it and it worked. It's just annoying to have to manage yourself.

I just had the entire folder point to another drive:

1. Manually cut and paste the folders or files to the new drive/directory you want them to be in:
I chose this: "E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\WWE 2K22\WWE 2K22"

2. Make sure you delete the original files/folders:
In my case it was in "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\WWE 2K22"

3. Re-create a new WWE 2K22 folder in same place:
In my case it was "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\WWE 2K22"

4. From admin level command prompt run with the quotes:
mklink /J "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\WWE 2K22" "E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\WWE 2K22\WWE 2K22"

5. Verify directory sizes, launch game.

[FireFox]

Installing anything to my C: Drive is a big no-no in my book, fix it.
Also putting Steam in a protected folder path like Program Files or Program Files(x86) is idiotic as well. Stop doing that.

[CRAZY ENZO]

May be a good idea to back up files before deleting them all but good to know.

edit: thought about it but auto-generated files probably don't need to be backed up.

Anyway I was able to get the above to work too, but step 3 is unnecessary and will cause a "cannot create a file when that file already exists" error from mklink.

Also I just put it in "(drive):\WWE 2K22" since there's no need to recreate the entire folder structure, just needs the link itself to be in the right place and then the folder with those files can be anywhere.