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It's not quite an issue that affects me playing the game. I want to understand what exactly is going on here.

After a certain patch, the game file was reduced to somewhere smaller than 50GB(without HD texture), I guess you guys know that. But since an update in early December last year, I find out my game folder is getting bigger and bigger, I am quite curious about this, so I decide to fully reinstall the game and try to find out what causes this. And I do find something there are a lot of files which names starting with somaething like a timestamp and ending with "StreamInfo.tmprec", "FrameDataStream.tmprec" and "StaticData.tmprec". They come up in groups, I mean for the same timestamp they have 3 different files ending with names mentioned before. For example a group of whole name of those files are "P15440_50_Y2022_M1_D16_H23_M58_FrameDataStream.tmprec", "P15440_52_Y2022_M1_D16_H23_M58_StaticData.tmprec" and "P15440_46_Y2022_M1_D16_H23_M49_StreamInfo.tmprec".

Those sound like they are kind of related to the game replays, but first, they are not located in "MatchReplays" folder under game folder(I mean "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege" folder), and second , after a small patch update I can't find like 1 to 1 match up between those files and my replays, and matchreplays only have 12 games at one time. I have like all this files since I reinstall the game. They are in total more than 6 GB! Thats quite a lot and they are growing when I play the game. 

I want to understand what are these and if I can delete them.

about 2 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link

Hey there @bygonedream ,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you!

May we please know where exactly in the game folder you're seeing these files?

I've had a look through my own game files and haven't been able to find the files you've listed.

Thank you!

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Orion - Direct link

@bygonedream @Lie-nus

Hey there folks.

Thanks for raising this with us. Can I ask whether your regular match replays are being saved in the match replay folder? Also are you regularly being disconnected from games? They all have tmprec in the title which I would think means temporary recording, if they're not being deleted automatically I'm wondering if it's because the match replay hasn't saved correctly for some reason and perhaps a match being unable to completed either through a disconnection or a crash could perhaps be the cause.

about 2 years ago - Ubi_Plush - Direct link

@lie-nus Thank you this feedback. How long have you noticed these file sizes increasing?

I also recommend clearing out files via the Ubisoft Connect launcher. You can remove these with the following steps >> https://ubi.li/JgOpC.

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Karl - Direct link

Hey @Lie-nus, appreciate your input and I do take it that you have found a solution which should help to keep all of these files in order for you.

I've had a look however struggled to locate any similar reports being mentioned, therefore just out of curiosity, can I check if you've tried disabling match replays/recording and if this had any impact on these files that are being created?

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Nacho - Direct link

@bygonedream Hello there!

Thank you for taking the time to report back to us on this, we're glad to hear that this doesn't seem to be related to/affecting your connectivity in-game. We appreciate you adding in your file path too.

If you do happen to see a difference after turning off match replays, feel free to get back in touch, as we'd be interested to know.

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Nacho - Direct link

@bygonedream Hello there!

Thanks for all of this additional information you've found on the issue. Sorry to hear you've not been able to upload images directly to Ubisoft Discussions.

We've since address the issue. Would you be able to try and upload these images again for us? Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Peach - Direct link

@bygonedream Thanks for those screenshots. I would like to take a closer look at these files. Could you please create a support case with us and upload these files? Thanks!

about 2 years ago - Ubi-Peach - Direct link

@bygonedream Understood. Would you be able to upload them to a Google Drive folder and share the link with us in your support ticket?

about 2 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link

Thanks for sharing these @bygonedream , appreciate it.

I've reached out to the team regarding this and we'll let you know when we hear more from them.

Thank you!

about 2 years ago - Ubi-TheBerry - Direct link

Hey @bygonedream ,

I've checked with the team who have been unable to confirm the exact purpose of the files noted, but they may be related to Match Replays and could lead to your in-game Replays becoming inaccessible if deleted.

We won't recommend tampering with the game files, but these don't appear to be core game related and may require a verifying of the game files if removed.

I'm sorry we're unable to provide more information but if there's anything more we can answer, please let us know!