Football Manager Crash Dumps

Question

I've a Football Manager 2010 game that continually crashes after a particular league match. When it crashes it generates a crash dump file. Does anyone know how to read this file so I might determine what's wrong and potentially fix the issue?

Answer 1

It's probably easier to first look in the game's support knowledgebase. :)

In particular, the Football Manager 2010 PC :: In-game Freezing / Crash to Desktop section.

Answer 2

If you're running the game via Steam you can try verifying the integrity of your saved game. Open steam at the library view. Right click on Football Manager and select properties. This should open a window with a local files tab on the far right. Select this and choose both the options to verify the integrity of game cache and to defragment game cache option.

I'm not sure if Football Manager itself provides this functionality (if you don't use Steam) but there may be a utility. Otherwise you could register the game in Steam. Either way hopefully this should resolve the issue.

Answer 3

I too have had FM2010 crashes and you can find the WER files usually here:

C:\Users\*User*\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive

I just right-click and Open With Notepad.

I found that FM2010 was pretty stable up until I performed a bcdedit /IncreaseUserVa 3076 change on the operating system to allow more memory to games. I've found since I rolled that back to default (2048?), the problems have gone away.