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How to increase loading performance using junction links
By Highway
Basically many users dont always install the OS on the fastest drive they have,and since 2k20 onwards this game series uses a temporary cache file of around 8gb that generates every time you load up. This guide is aimed at helping you take advantage of an old Windows command that hotlinks to a folder on your fastest or most optimised drive for improved performance.
   
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The full breakdown of how it works
WWE 2k20 to 2k25 use a cache folder in your C: drive. Now if you have a faster NVME drive for you OS C: drive, you can leave now, this probably wont benefit your time doing.

If your OS drive is a old mechanical drive (160mbs r/w or even early generation SSDs (typically 500mbs r/w) and your game is installed on faster drive than the OS this should increase performance of cutscenes, intros, character creation etc.

1. Head to folder called C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\WWE2k2x\ and you will see a few files and subfolders here as well as a 8GB prebake file that the game auto generates when a match starts or editor suites are run etc.

2. Take a copy of the entire folder and put it somewhere safe in case you need to restore it later, as contains other basic files the game may need, also make a second copy and move to the new destination on faster drive you want the game to now use, in my example this is I:\SteamLibrary\WWE 2K2x\.

3. Delete the original C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\WWE2k2x\ folder, as this will be shortly replaced with a junction link folder shortcut.

4. Run command prompt in admin mode. Using the script below, notice " " around folder names is required.

5. Run this script : noting that the new folder is on my I: drive but it can be any drive except C:, this is just where one of my faster NVME dirves is located with steam games :-

mklink /J "C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\WWE 2K2x" "I:\SteamLibrary\WWE 2K2x"

6. command prompt should report this afterwards :-

Junction created for C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\WWE 2K2x <<===>> I:\SteamLibrary\WWE 2K2x

And that's basically it, if you now look in your C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\ directory it will now show a junction link folder and opening it will direct it straight to the new location and trick the game into thinking its data is still on C:

congrats, it's done and ready to use.

To revert back to original state is straight forward, simply delete the junction link file folder C:\Users\YOURID\AppData\Local\WWE2k2x and move the folder back from whatever drive you moved it too.
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Yeehaw Jones Apr 21 @ 7:20pm 
Actually fire guide thanks big dog
Highway  [author] Apr 21 @ 5:19am 
I made this guide originally 3 years back, but figured may as well update it for the current game, as still applies to a lot of people using slightly older hardware to play the series.