Exceptions.txt is 1.02 GIGABYTES!!!

[Sixxor]

Before I installed 1.11 the game was pretty stable for me (both on release and on 1.08), but last night after installing 1.11 things seem to have gone downhill a bit.

For the most part, it's all good, but the game keeps freezing for a couple of seconds at a time randomly, then recovering. I can live with this, but after picking up Kufu's Staff in Giza from the sarcophagus, I killed the big skeletons which spawned, and the as I was about to descend the ramp out of the room, the game just completely froze.
I left it for about 6 minutes, but it did not recover. I was unable to alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del to get out of it, so all I could do was hard reset my PC (which I do not like doing).

After restarting, all was fine, and I thought I would post the exception log here for the devs today, however when I went to open it, I noticed it's HUGE, 1.02gb to be exact, and neither Notepad or Wordpad can open it (Wordpad tries for a few seconds then chokes out an error and goes for a lie down ).

I haven't tried opening it in MS Word yet but I will, however I don't fancy trying to email a 1.02gb txt file to the chaps at IronLore!

I'm assuming that it's not supposed to be this big? If it is then frankly it's unacceptable to eat such a chunk of a user's hard disk, especially when you dictate where it is stored. On my computer (and I know many other people who do the same), the C partition is used exclusively for the WindowsXP install and the virtual memory swapfile, I don't use it for anything else and nothing ever gets installed on it. All games go on my D drive. As such I think it's not really on to be dumping a 1.02gb file on my C drive when I control the space usage of the drive tightly.
Would it not be possible to give the user a choice of where this file is dumped? Or at the very least, dump it in the same folder as the game's installation files as that would not be so much of a problem.



(ps sorry for the rant - I'm done now. )


EDIT: Just tried to open the file in Microsoft Word 2003 and that can't do it either. The error it gives is "Cannot open this file because it's larger than 32mb" - yeah... just a bit larger.
I'm gonna have to delete the file, I just hope this won't cause any problems with the game....

[chooch709]

Deleting the file will not cause any issues with the game. As for the file size, errr, I'll forward this information on. Thanks.

[Max]

The file is not supposed to be that large; I suspect it must have gotten stuck when writing the call stack and repeated the same information over and over. You can delete the file without any problems. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Max