Steam – Can you make steam not take dumps when Dota 2 crashes

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Everytime Dota 2 crashes steam makes memory dumps and they're placed in the C:\Program Files\Steam\dumps.

Now my problem is that my HDD space is pretty low now, and each "dump" file is a bit over 1 GB. And i really don't have any use for them either, i don't plan on reporting the crashes because I'm pretty sure it wont help me, and it would take too long to upload that anyway (with my upload speed at least).

Is there a way to make steam not make those dump files at every Dota 2 crash?

Best Answer

As of May 3rd, 2013 (when main DotA 2 client gets patched) DotA 2 crashes won't create such large .dmp files.

Quote from the official DotA 2 test client patch notes:

  • Update 2 - "Dota 2 will no longer generate full crash dumps"

If the problem persists you can try using CCleaner program, it can be set to automatically delete those files.

Also you could use junctions to automatically redirect those files on another disk partition or send them to desktop for easier cleanup.

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