Storage Paths

This page lists where the SDK stores the saves, content, profile data and shader caches of a game on the host. See Folders and Storage for the settings that choose the folders.

Saves, Content and Profiles

These paths are under the folder in app.user_root. The parts in angle brackets are filled in for each item:

• <XUID> is the XUID of the profile, as 16 uppercase hexadecimal digits, such as B13EBABEBABEBABE.
• <TitleID> is the title ID of the game, as 8 uppercase hexadecimal digits.
• <ContentType> is the content type, as 8 uppercase hexadecimal digits, such as 00000001 for a saved game.

Item	Path under app.user_root
Content package	<XUID>/<TitleID>/<ContentType>/ and the package file name
Package header	<XUID>/<TitleID>/Headers/<ContentType>/ and the package file name with .header added
Package thumbnail	__thumbnail.png inside a package folder
Saved game	A content package of type 00000001
Marketplace content	A content package of type 00000002, with the XUID 0000000000000000
Profile setting	<TitleID>/profile/ and the profile name, then the setting ID as 8 hexadecimal digits
Achievement state	achievements/<TitleID>.toml
Console overlay history	console_history.txt

For example, a saved game named save0 of the default profile, for a game with the title ID 12345678, is at B13EBABEBABEBABE/12345678/00000001/save0 under app.user_root.

Shader Cache

These paths are under the folder in app.cache_root. The variant is the render target path of the driver, rov or rtv for Direct3D 12 and fsi or fbo for Vulkan.

Item	Path under app.cache_root
Direct3D 12 pipeline descriptions	shaders/shareable/<TitleID>.<variant>.d3d12.xpso
Vulkan pipeline descriptions	shaders/shareable/<TitleID>.<variant>.vk.xpso
Guest shaders	shaders/shareable/<TitleID>.xsh

See Shader Cache for when the drivers write these files.