Windows 11 Crash Dump
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own. Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace. If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image. I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own. Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace. If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image. I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Nope. Win 11 has been surprisingly reliable for me, with pretty much zero crashes at all with the exception of GTA V, which was down to the new motherboard locating the GPU above the PSU and causing heat problems. Extra fans and some software to control the GPU fan speed have fixed that. Even those crashes didn't generate dumps, just locked the whole machine with a corrupted display.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nope. Win 11 has been surprisingly reliable for me, with pretty much zero crashes at all with the exception of GTA V, which was down to the new motherboard locating the GPU above the PSU and causing heat problems. Extra fans and some software to control the GPU fan speed have fixed that. Even those crashes didn't generate dumps, just locked the whole machine with a corrupted display.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nope. Win 11 has been surprisingly reliable for me, with pretty much zero crashes at all with the exception of GTA V, which was down to the new motherboard locating the GPU above the PSU and causing heat problems. Extra fans and some software to control the GPU fan speed have fixed that. Even those crashes didn't generate dumps, just locked the whole machine with a corrupted display.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Don’t forget that those naughty modders in GTA can crash your game. Apparently, it’s surprisingly easy to do.
Rockstar attitude to modders is ... um ... surprisingly poor. :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Win 11 has been very stable. Video drivers have been only issue and they are vendor specific.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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The fact that the monitors went black, seems to confirm that it is probably a video driver issue.
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Rockstar attitude to modders is ... um ... surprisingly poor. :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own. Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace. If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image. I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I had a crash yesterday that was weird. The monitor went black and the audio was machine-gunning the last fraction of a second of audio through the speakers. Did a hard restart and when I found the dump file it was nearly 2GB. Didn't have much going on at that time except a browser with one tab and a freshly-booted PoE, so I can imagine how crazy that file would get if you were really in the thick of things.
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own. Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace. If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image. I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
That's interesting. It's my understanding that the default is to create "minidumps" which aren't that large. Do you have an IDE or other tool installed that might have changed this?
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That's interesting. It's my understanding that the default is to create "minidumps" which aren't that large. Do you have an IDE or other tool installed that might have changed this?
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Three IDEs: Visual Studio 2019 CE, IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.
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I'm pretty sure that VS2019 doesn't change the dump setting, so you might try the other two. Unfortunately this may not be something that's documented, unless you find it on a discussion forum.
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