[Runtime Issue]: Error 20 while trying to create crash dump

[Jayman2000]

Build Version

v1.6 770e9e8

Operating System Environment

• Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
• Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
• Mac OS X
• Linux (specify distribution and version below)

CPU Environment

• x86 (32-bit Intel/AMD)
• x86_64 (64-bit Intel/AMD)
• ARM (32-bit)
• ARM64 (64-bit; sometimes called AArch64)
• Other (RISC V, PPC...)

Game Modes Affected

• Single player
• Anarchy
• Hyper-Anarchy
• Robo-Anarchy
• Team Anarchy
• Capture the Flag
• Bounty
• Entropy
• Hoard
• Monsterball
• Cooperative

Game Environment

I’m using game data from the US Windows Dual-Jewel version of Descent 3 v1.4.

Description

Sometimes, Descent 3 will encounter an error and try to save a crash dump:

Unfortunately, when you click on the OK button, it gives you this error:

Regression Status

I don't know

Steps to Reproduce

1. Do something that would cause Descent 3 to crash and produce a crash dump. At the moment, you can do so by trying to reproduce this issue.

2. Once the “Unexpected Error” window appears, click “OK”.

[pzychotic]

The first dialog with the path to the crash dump will be shown after the crash dump was successfully written by Windows MiniDumpWriteDump() function.
Do you have a crash dump file at that location?

The second dialog only appears in case that MiniDumpWriteDump() function returns with false. I can't reproduce getting that dialog after clicking OK on the first one.

[Jayman2000]

The first dialog with the path to the crash dump will be shown after the crash dump was successfully written by Windows MiniDumpWriteDump() function.
Do you have a crash dump file at that location?

It looks like I do have a crash dump there. I guess that the second dialog box needs to be reworded in order to make it clear that at least one crash dump has been written successfully.

[pzychotic]

That's the thing, you should only get one of the dialogs not both. Unless it just crashed again and couldn't write the dump the 2nd time. But I can't reproduce that scenario. The game just closes for me, after clicking OK on the first dialog.

Btw. did you run a GitHub artifact or a self build version? If GitHub artifact, can you please share the crash dump file?

[Jayman2000]

That's the thing, you should only get one of the dialogs not both. Unless it just crashed again and couldn't write the dump the 2nd time. But I can't reproduce that scenario. The game just closes for me, after clicking OK on the first dialog.

I just updated the steps to reproduce for #594. If you follow those new steps to reproduce, do you get the second dialog box?

Btw. did you run a GitHub artifact or a self build version? If GitHub artifact, can you please share the crash dump file?

I built the game myself.

[pzychotic]

Unfortunately I still can't reproduce this.
This seems more like a niche annoyance in rare occasions right now.