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About this mod
Prevents the Crash Reporter from opening after a crash. Version 1.1.0 also prevents logs from being generated.
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Overview
On a modded game, I do not want to send any crash reports to CDPR, as they are probably useless to them anyway.
The Crash Reporter also opens on a different monitor for me, I will often miss it completely while it prevents me from relaunching the game via Steam (and if I forget about it, it also counts towards playtime).
This has annoyed me enough that I spent an hour or so relearning to code and compile C under Windows, only to realize that a completely empty file will do the trick as well.
Version 1.1.0: Includes a replacer to stop crash logs from being written at all. The process usually runs alongside the game, it now no longer does.
Version 1.0.0: Crash logs are still generated, that happens in a different process. The Crash Reporter is just responsible to collect those logs and some system information, then bundle that up and send to CDPR.
Installation
Easiest to install with Vortex, MO2 probably needs root builder.
Vortex will complain and reach the Fallback Installer, select "Yes, Install To Staging Anyway".
Manual install is possible, but at that point you might as well create the file yourself (see Technical Details).
Verify files after disabling in Vortex or uninstall (a default Vortex configuration will overwrite the file without creating a backup).
Technical Details
It's just an empty .txt file, renamed to CrashReporter.exe and placed into the correct directory. /bin/x64/CrashReporter/
Same thing for REDEngineErrorReporter.exe, renamed an empty text file and placed into /bin/x64/
Windows will not even allow these files to be executed, since it lacks any required header information.
It is possible to just rename the file, or delete it to achieve the same result. A Vortex installation can not do this however, so overwriting the file is the simplest option to achieve the same result.
With version 1.0.0 logs are still written (and can take a decent amount of space).
Press Win+R and enter: (or enter into an explorer window)
On a modded game, I do not want to send any crash reports to CDPR, as they are probably useless to them anyway.
The Crash Reporter also opens on a different monitor for me, I will often miss it completely while it prevents me from relaunching the game via Steam (and if I forget about it, it also counts towards playtime).
This has annoyed me enough that I spent an hour or so relearning to code and compile C under Windows, only to realize that a completely empty file will do the trick as well.
Version 1.1.0: Includes a replacer to stop crash logs from being written at all. The process usually runs alongside the game, it now no longer does.
Version 1.0.0: Crash logs are still generated, that happens in a different process. The Crash Reporter is just responsible to collect those logs and some system information, then bundle that up and send to CDPR.
Installation
Easiest to install with Vortex, MO2 probably needs root builder.
Vortex will complain and reach the Fallback Installer, select "Yes, Install To Staging Anyway".
Manual install is possible, but at that point you might as well create the file yourself (see Technical Details).
Verify files after disabling in Vortex or uninstall (a default Vortex configuration will overwrite the file without creating a backup).
Technical Details
It's just an empty .txt file, renamed to CrashReporter.exe and placed into the correct directory. /bin/x64/CrashReporter/
Same thing for REDEngineErrorReporter.exe, renamed an empty text file and placed into /bin/x64/
Windows will not even allow these files to be executed, since it lacks any required header information.
It is possible to just rename the file, or delete it to achieve the same result. A Vortex installation can not do this however, so overwriting the file is the simplest option to achieve the same result.
With version 1.0.0 logs are still written (and can take a decent amount of space).
Press Win+R and enter: (or enter into an explorer window)
%LocalAppData%\REDEngine\ReportQueue
then delete the content of that directory.