Custom map/cache folder location

[Karl Pilkington]

Is it baked in to only go to drive C in the my documents or can I direct it to another drive? My c drive is a tiny SSD for Windows and keeps getting maxed out with constantly downloading custom maps. I've been backing up the maps to another drive to grab when I need one after clearing space but this is really annoying and causes unnecessary wear on the drive

[Karl Pilkington]

Nobody knows??

[Embermaker]

My guess is they are in Documents/My Games/Rising Storm 2/ROGame/Cache .
At least on win 8.1

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

Yeah it's where embermaker said it was. Sorry I didn't see this thread when it was new. I don't often look on the 2nd page.

Anyway once you are inside the cache folder you will see a bunch of folders and a bunch of files with really long names of jumbled numbers and letters.

The folders are things you are subscribed to on the workshop. You don't want to delete these folders.

The files are what you have downloaded from the server itself. These are the things you may want to delete.

There is also a text file which tells you which jumble of letters and numbers corresponds to which make. If you want to be specific. You also have to delete the entry from that cache file if you delete individual files or the same name. If you are deleting all files then you can simply delete that text file altogether. If you don't the game will think you have a map when you actually don't and can do some weird things.

[Karl Pilkington]

I'm not asking where it is. I'm constantly tossing maps from one drive to another on demand of server map change and using the cache.txt to find which one I need so I'm well aware of where it is as that is the issue, it is filling up my C drive. I'm asking can it be changed to go somewhere else instead of drive C, such that I don't have to constantly swap out maps from drive to drive.

is there no way to set the downloaded map folder to be where you want or is it permanently hard coded no ifs ands or buts to go into my documents?

[Karl Pilkington]

or perhaps instead of changing where it is downloaded to at least set the game to read from an additional location. that way once i've downloaded it i can move the file to the larger drive and don't have to send it back for the game to read it.
I have RS2 installed on drive D which is much larger, why can't the map cache be in the same drive since that's where it reads the official maps anyway????

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

Not without changing the location of your entire documents folder. Which you have to do through windows settings. Can't just drag it to another hard drive it doesn't work. I've moved mine since a lot of games use documents to store custom content and my C drive was only a 256gb SSD.

[Karl Pilkington]

yeah that would be favorable, why i didnt think of that sooner. i guess i'm used to thinking windows won't allow it or is going to get stupid

[Bot]

Find config.ini (or engine.ini, i dont remember) open it and search for "cache" (ctrl+F) youll find something like cache path, save the original ini file and then change the cache path for whatever you like. Have the same issue, didnt tried that solution yet but will try it when back home and report here.

[Bot]

My solution works !! all ya have to do is to go to ...\Documents\My Games\Rising Storm 2\ROGame\Config and open ROEngine.ini then search for "CachePath=..\..\ROGame\Cache" (tip : use ctrl + F) and change it to whatever you want (I changed it to CachePath=D:\JEUX\RS2 cache\Cache for example).

I deleted all the cache files before doing it so I don't know if moving it to the new location works. I started the game ad played a custom map and after I quit the files were stored in the new location.

[Master Meow!]

thx thomas, your guide is working for me

[Bot]

Originally posted by Ein Mops!:

thx thomas, your guide is working for me

Good ! I'm happy that I have helped someone today :)

[Palmirov]

Originally posted by thomas_cible_facile:

My solution works !! all ya have to do is to go to ...\Documents\My Games\Rising Storm 2\ROGame\Config and open ROEngine.ini then search for "CachePath=..\..\ROGame\Cache" (tip : use ctrl + F) and change it to whatever you want (I changed it to CachePath=D:\JEUX\RS2 cache\Cache for example).

I deleted all the cache files before doing it so I don't know if moving it to the new location works. I started the game ad played a custom map and after I quit the files were stored in the new location.

Thanks, mate, a lot!

[Bot]

Originally posted by Palmirov:

Originally posted by thomas_cible_facile:

My solution works !! all ya have to do is to go to ...\Documents\My Games\Rising Storm 2\ROGame\Config and open ROEngine.ini then search for "CachePath=..\..\ROGame\Cache" (tip : use ctrl + F) and change it to whatever you want (I changed it to CachePath=D:\JEUX\RS2 cache\Cache for example).

I deleted all the cache files before doing it so I don't know if moving it to the new location works. I started the game ad played a custom map and after I quit the files were stored in the new location.

Thanks, mate, a lot!

You're Welcome ! :)

[dunadan]

You should also know that when you join a server and it downloads files hosted on the workshop, which is most often the case, then there are redundant copies kept in your Steam workshop folder on both RS2 & KF2. I haven't tried merging them though since the file path is different past the ID.

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[Bot]

Originally posted by dunadan:

You should also know that when you join a server and it downloads files hosted on the workshop, which is most often the case, then there are redundant copies kept in your Steam workshop folder on both RS2 & KF2. I haven't tried merging them though since the file path is different past the ID.

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wow very interesting ! since I just wanted to save space on my main hardrive (a low capacity SSD) this issue doesn't bore me a lot but i'll clean the Steam Workshop folder from time to time and see if there is no other solution.