Trailers for Mortal Kombat 1 are also not free of bugs and had to be removed:
Nintendo removes trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 after severe glitches and ridicule
Mortal Kombat 1 creates a folder with crash reports on your PC drive without asking during every crash. With a size of up to 1 GB, these can be very large. The lost storage space increases with each crash.
Bugs and glitches in new video games are not uncommon. However, there are also errors that do not become apparent immediately because they do not affect the gaming experience as such. The unpleasant surprise usually hits players later and completely unexpectedly.
How does Mortal Kombat 1 secretly consume data storage? A problem has now been identified with automatically generated crash reports in Mortal Kombat 1 (MK1) that consume storage on your PC drive.
Several players of MK1 on PC report that a folder with a crash report is created with each game crash. The folder size can vary, but can take up to 1 GB.
On X, formerly Twitter, the user “X-Azeez” shared pictures of various saved crash reports:
It becomes problematic when MK1 crashes very often on your system. In this case, a separate crash report is created each time. Individual users report up to 70 GB of occupied storage space (via Steam).
Why is this bad? If a system runs with too little free storage space, it can become unstable. In some cases, it may even refuse service completely until enough storage space is freed up.
As game installations continue to grow larger, this is a problem that cannot be underestimated.
Developers are working on a solution
Is there already a patch for the bug? No, unfortunately not yet. However, Cory Taylor, a community manager from publisher WB Games, has commented on the issue.
Taylor says the problem is known and the MK1 developers from NetherRealms Studio are already working on a solution (via Twitter).
Can I delete the folders myself? Yes, for the time being, there is no other way than to take action yourself and remove the folders containing the files. As long as the developer has no official solution for the problem, this is your only way to address the issue.
Manually delete crash reports
Where can I find the folders with the crash reports? Thanks to the community, two different folder paths have now been identified that may contain these files. You need to delete all subfolders there to free up storage space.
The first path is:
- C:Users[Username]AppDataLocalMK12SavedSteamCrashes
The second path is here and may also contain crash reports:
- C:Users[Username]AppDataLocalCrashDump
It’s best to check both folder paths to find and delete all files. It remains to be seen when the developers will resolve the issue.
Trailers for Mortal Kombat 1 are also not free of bugs and had to be removed:
Nintendo removes trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 after severe glitches and ridicule
