What To Do With A Dump?

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Is there some kind of process for when we get a nice fat minidump whilest hosting an online multiplayer game? Everything was going fine for a about half an hour and then -Pow!- my game froze, I ran task manager after a two minute wait, and it showed two applications running (minidump, and sins).

I'm running 32-bit Vista, 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 1900X Radeon 256MB, and I've already done everything in Monk's hosting thread (and I've hosted 2 other games successfully, so I don't think it's a connection issue).

Is Vista the problem, is the new patch not solving minidump problems, or should I just get used to it?


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Flush it.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Please send it to [email protected]. 

It's almost certainly not a connection issue.  A minidump is just a crash report so that when something goes wrong with the game, we can figure out what it is.  The patch definitely solved some problems that caused minidumps but obviously there are a few still out there. 

Thank you in advance for sending it in - there is no way we can solve these problems unless people send them in.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Oh I should add that the file can be found in

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\Sins Dump

on XP, I'm not sure where it is on vista, but somewhere under c:\users\<username>.

You can do a search for the folder "Sins Dump" under that directory.