That can happen with any program, and should be a simple fix on the dev side
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.
It is also something that can happen easily. Just program to log an error and then the error happens unexpected every frame.
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.
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
If you’re getting a stack trace every frame youd be there much sooner. Maybe like a week.`
Yeah, that does not add up, you are right. There must be several error or it must include the stacktrace or something.
It’s possible that the log writer wanted to
fseekto the end of the file and write something, but the target pointer value was somehow corrupted. Depending on the OS, the file might end up having a fuckton of zeroes in the skipped part.That should result in a sparse file on any sane filesystem, right?
Theoretically, yes. Theoretically NTFS supports sparse files, but I don’t know if the feature is enabled by default.
It supports it, but it’s opt-in by apps.
Enabling compression is another option (Though with a speed and size penalty), it’s user visible at least.
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”
I vaguely remember the Nvidia driver generating tons of log files, so many that they piled up over years and filled my drive
