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104 points

That can happen with any program, and should be a simple fix on the dev side

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87 points

It is also something that can happen easily. Just program to log an error and then the error happens unexpected every frame.

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24 points

To happen every frame without crashing the game, it’s more likely a warning ⚠️ “Warning, the texture is named 1.png instead of 1.PNG”

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72 points
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So

300×1024×1024= 314,572,800kb

Assuming something like 200 bytes per log line

x5 = 1,572,864,000 logs

Assuming this is your standard console port with a 60fps frame rate lock:

÷60fps ÷ 60 seconds ÷ 60 minutes ÷ 24h = 303.407… days

You would need to play for nearly a year solid to generate that many logs at a rate of one per frame.

Given that’s probably not what’s happened, this is a particularly impressive rate of erroring

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51 points

Yeah, that does not add up, you are right. There must be several error or it must include the stacktrace or something.

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8 points

If you’re getting a stack trace every frame youd be there much sooner. Maybe like a week.`

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37 points

It’s a crash log, not an error log. It’s probably dumping the entire memory stack to text instead of a bin dump every time it crashed. I would also suspect the crash handler is appending to the log instead of deleting old crashes and just keeping the latest. At several dozen gigas of RAM it would just take a couple of game crashes to fill up the 300GB.

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16 points

It happened to my cousin awhile back with Photoshop. She’s a professional photographer and it shut her down for a few days. I found it pretty quickly and an update stopped it from happening. It wasn’t removing temporary files and totally filled her drive up.

Poor thing was ready to buy a new hard drive.

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5 points

I vaguely remember the Nvidia driver generating tons of log files, so many that they piled up over years and filled my drive

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