Settings

Settings, at the bottom of the sidebar, has a category list on the left and the chosen category on the right. Press Tab to move through the list and Enter to open a category.

Category	What it holds
General	Language and starting your game's store
Display	PC or TV mode
Storage	Where your addons and saves are, finding them again, their size, and cleanup
Advanced	Developer mode and clearing old logs automatically
About	The launcher's version, update status and links

General

Language is a drop-down listing each language by its own name: English, Deutsch, Español, 한국어, Русский or 简体中文. It changes straight away. The sidebar, the Play bar, Profiles, Settings and the crash screen are translated so far, and everything else stays in English, including the causes the crash screen names. Addons and F1 25 keep their own language.

Start Steam automatically (or the EA app) starts your game's store when you press Play, as the same item in the Play menu does.

Home screen video shows the latest Swofty video in the bottom right of the F1 25 home screen, with RB (V on a keyboard) to watch it. It is on by default. Turned off, the home screen has no video card from the next time you press Play, and the launcher no longer fetches the latest video.

Display

Display mode switches between PC mode, the normal layout, and TV mode, which scales the whole launcher up by 30% and widens the scrollbars, for handhelds and couch play. The welcome wizard asks for it, with your language, the first time the launcher opens and once after an update that changes the wizard. Each choice applies as you pick it, Esc or Skip closes the wizard, and you can change both here at any time.

Storage

Storage has three sections. Moving the launcher to another drive never moves your addons and saves.

Section	Row	What it shows
Location	Your addons and saves	The folder where your addons, profiles, backups and logs live, shown with its path (see where your files are stored). Open opens it in File Explorer, or your file manager on Linux. Move… moves it to another folder or drive.
	Find my addons	Find looks in the places an old copy may be and offers to use one (see below). It says Nothing found when there is none.
Usage	Size	The folder's total size and the free space on its drive. When F1 25's own drive is another one, also the free space there: the drive with your Windows profile, or on Linux the drive with the game's Proton prefix (its Steam library).
	Breakdown	How much each part takes, largest first: addons, the game backup, session logs, the cache, the career vault, save snapshots, addon data and the rest.
Cleanup	Session logs	How many game sessions are kept. Clear old removes the old ones (see below).
	Game drive copy	The size of the copy of your mods that Play keeps on F1 25's drive (see below). Clear deletes it.

When either drive has less than 3 GB free, Usage says so: F1 25 won't start with less than 2 GB free on its C: drive, which under Proton is the prefix.

Moved addons and saves are measured where they really are.

Refresh, in the Usage heading, measures the folder again. Measuring walks every file, so a large addon collection takes a few seconds. Storage measures when you open it.

Clearing old session logs

Every game session leaves its logs in sessions in the data folder, and nothing removed them before. Clear old keeps the newest 20 sessions and every session from the last 2 days, and removes the rest. It doesn't run while F1 25 is open. The button names how many sessions it would remove and how much room that frees; it reads Nothing to clear when every session is new enough to keep.

Clear old asks you to confirm before it deletes anything. The launcher keeps every log unless you turn on Clear old logs under Advanced: with it on, the launcher clears old logs by the same rule each time it starts, without asking. It is off by default, so updating never deletes logs.

Moving your addons and saves

Move… next to Your addons and saves moves your addons, profiles, backups and logs to another folder or drive without the installer.

1. Select Move… and choose a folder. A folder that has files in it gets a Swofty folder inside it.
2. The launcher shows where the data is now, where it will go, its size and the free space there. Select Move to start.
3. A full-window screen shows the progress and the file being copied. Cancel stops the copy and removes it; your addons and saves stay where they were. Nothing else in the launcher works while it runs, and the window doesn't close.
4. When the copy checks out, the launcher restarts, switches to the new folder, deletes the old copy and shows a message. The old location keeps working: Swofty finds your addons and saves at the same path as before.

On the same drive the folder is renamed and nothing is copied. A copy is checked by size, and by content for the small files. The launcher's own logs under state and logs grow while it copies; for those the copy has to match the start of the original, and the restart copies the rest.

The launcher refuses to start the move while F1 25 is open, a build is running or downloads are queued. It refuses a whole drive, a folder inside or around the launcher's own folder, inside or around the F1 25 folder, inside the folder they are in now, one that isn't empty, one it can't write to, and one on a drive without room for the data plus a margin. When SWOFTY_DATA_DIR sets the folder, it refuses and says so: change the variable instead.

If the launcher or the computer stops during a move, the next start finishes it or puts everything back. When the old copy can't be deleted, the message names it so you can delete it yourself.

Finding your addons and saves

When the launcher starts with none of your own addons, it looks in a fixed list of places, and a prompt appears when it finds a folder that has addons of yours and a config, profiles or saves: We found your addons and saves in the folder, with the number of addons, its size and when it was last used. Several finds are listed newest first.

• Use them points Swofty at that folder and restarts the launcher. The empty folder it made is kept beside it as Swofty.fresh-<date>, and the launcher never deletes it. A folder inside the launcher's own folder is moved out to the usual place instead.
• Not now closes the prompt until the next start.
• Don't ask again turns the prompt off. Find under Find my addons still works.

The places are the folders next to your Swofty folder called Swofty.old, Swofty.old-2 and Swofty.fresh-…, the places your addons and saves were moved from (recorded in swofty-data-history.json beside the Swofty folder), the launcher's folder and the Swofty and SwoftyData folders in it, and on Windows the folders on each drive whose name starts with Swofty, in the drive's top folder and in Games and Program Files. It doesn't search inside other folders. Addons that ship with the launcher don't count.

When SWOFTY_DATA_DIR sets the folder, Use them refuses and says so.

The game drive copy

A hard link joins two names for one file and only works inside one drive. Play keeps copies in swofty-cache/overlay in the game folder and hard-links the game's files to them. Which files it keeps there depends on where your addons and saves are:

• On another drive than F1 25, every file Play places.
• On F1 25's drive, the loose files that Play would otherwise copy, such as addon files. Built output still links straight from your addons and saves. A game that writes to a linked file changes the cached copy and never the addon's original.

The first Play copies every file; later Plays copy only files that are new or whose size or modified time changed, and delete files that are no longer placed. A cached copy the game wrote to is copied again.

The copy stays when the game goes back to stock. It needs the size of those files on F1 25's drive plus 2 GB to spare; with less room, Play copies each file straight into the game folder and the Play log says why. Clear removes the copy at any time and doesn't run while F1 25 is open; the next Play rebuilds it.

Low space when you press Play

When you press Play with less than 3 GB free on F1 25's own drive (the drive with your Windows profile, or on Linux the drive with the game's Proton prefix) or on the drive with your addons and saves, the launcher shows a warning. The game still starts: under 2 GB, F1 25 refuses on its own with "cannot run with less than 2048 free storage space".

Advanced

Switch	What it does
Developer mode	Shows the Tools page with the swofty dev actions, as the same item in the Play menu does
Clear old logs	Off by default. On: clears old session logs when the launcher starts, as Clear old does, without asking. Off keeps every log

About

Shows the launcher's version, whether an update is available, and links to the documentation and the Discord server.