IMPORTANT: Crashes fill up disk space!!

[pxlCorvid]

It's important to know that as of right now (12/7/24) and until the next update (which I hope fixes this,) the game crashing dumps a huge file into your PC's appdata folder.
In my multiple crashes, this file ranged from 6GBs to up to 20GBs.

Another thing about the game crashing that I learned:
If the game freezes and you know it's not coming back (I say give it 10-20 seconds),
then immediately kill the game process with task manager.
What it's doing (I assume,) is reading the (now frozen) scene/engine data and compiling that "fulldump" in your appdata folder.

During this, the memory usage for the program skyrockets over time until you're out of memory, and the dump file will fill a huge chunk of your disk space.
If you're like me and have low disk space on your OS drive, this is really bad.

So, clean your crash log folder!

It's located at OS:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Marvel\Saved\Crashes
You can also open your file explorer and type %localappdata% in the navigation bar to get there, then find the "Marvel" folder from there.

Go find specifically the "UEMinidump.full.dmp" file! The other .dmp file is fine to keep or send to the devs in bug reports. (or just delete these folders when you crash if you don't care to send reports.)

I assume this is some debugging development thing they just forgot to turn off because UE5 games don't output files this big, ever.

Script below I marked as an answer is a temporary solution to this.
It'll remove the contents of the Crashes folder for you.

Hope this helped!

[AmItheFather]

This ♥♥♥♥ is nuts lol! I've got 12 crash dumps taking up 55GB of data!

[fuji699]

has this been fixed yet?

[BlunderingFool]

Assuming it won't break something, wouldn't it be possible to set the folder the crash logs are put as "Read only" to avoid this issue entirely? I remember doing that for a game that would auto-download hundreds of thousands of preview images because it wouldn't clear out old ones and would download ones it already had. Recovered 70gb of disk space from that game and now I can't remember which it was. XD

[pxlCorvid]

Originally posted by fuji699:

has this been fixed yet?

To my knowledge, no. The game hasn't crashed for me since but I don't think the game has updated yet.

Originally posted by BlunderingFool:

Assuming it won't break something, wouldn't it be possible to set the folder the crash logs are put as "Read only" to avoid this issue entirely? I remember doing that for a game that would auto-download hundreds of thousands of preview images because it wouldn't clear out old ones and would download ones it already had. Recovered 70gb of disk space from that game and now I can't remember which it was. XD

To my knowledge, I don't think it'll work, as someone already tried it and said it doesn't work. I haven't tried it myself though.

[BlunderingFool]

Ah pants, oh well, it was worth a shot.

[RebelRider101]

I did this but didn't get any storage back?

[RooeeZe]

Still cant find these crash files while browsing, got 4 crashes before the patch and havent played the update yet.

[Dogsand]

I am having this exact problem. I followed the steps, but there were no files in that folder. Can anyone assist me?

[Roland's 2nd]

Originally posted by Dogsand:

I am having this exact problem. I followed the steps, but there were no files in that folder. Can anyone assist me?

They fixed the dumps issue last patch; you won't find any files there anymore.