Lighting data : slowdown

[dibdab]

I wasn’t having slowdown on startup in U 5.62

and recently noticed there’s a new folder created with lighing data
(it is 761M, so no wonder it slows down)

now I use U 5.64, but not sure if it hasn’t appeared now in U 5.62 project too

before:

now:

so the question is, how should I avoid it

also another thread, but no solution

Large Lighting Data crash

I’m trying to bake Precomputed GI on a scene with high detail. I’ve set it to 30 texels per unit and high irradiance budget on the object settings. The quality is ok, but not perfect. The lighting data file is 1.6 GB. If I try to raise the texels per unit more though, I encounter a strange error. After the build of the GI completes succesfully and I can see it in the editor, if I try to save the scene, Unity crashes. I can build the executable with no problems, but I cannot save the scene. If I …

[dibdab]

okay, so what I did:

switched off realtime global illumination
and I don’t see any noticeable quality change

the folder is still generated but filesizes are small

and there’s no startup slowdown anymore