Light Baking takes ~5 hour or more

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Hi,
When i bakeing my light it takes min. 5 hours.Each change i am waiting this time because i cant see results before finish.Is there another way to see how my game will look after bake without wait ?

How can i make it faster ? I have 3770k i7,ssd + 16gb ram and gtx980.Should i change my hardware or something else for fast result ?

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We have the same problem and this is what we did:

A better graphics card.

When just testing lighting (not at the end of the project):

  • Set the default params lower
  • Set the Baked Resolution lower
  • Final Gather will increase Bake Time and scales depending how high the Count is
  • Turn off Precomputed Realtime GI
  • Set Directional Mode to non-directional

When doing the final bake at the end of the project, crank these settings up and be prepared to wait. Sorry, Enlighten is just slow. I believe 5.5 will add a better baking system but until then, you must wait