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Browse All TopicsI run a game server company. Latley a particular game application (srcds.exe) has been crashing without producing any sort of error messages except for the mdmp file.
I believe the mdmp file will have the info I need to find out the cause of the crash. I tried to use Visual Studio 2008 but it gives me an error about Symbols not loaded. What are these Symbols?
Could sombody please explain how I would go about reading this mdmp file?
By the way I tried to attach the mdmp file but expert-exchange won't allow. So I renamed it to txt. Please rename it back to mdmp. I have more mdmp files
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by: jgordosPosted on 2008-11-18 at 11:56:58ID: 22988128
Symbols not loaded means that the Debugger couldn't find a symbol map... it uses a Symbol map in order to determine the names of subroutines and such...
bols
You can load the OS'es debug symbols from 'debugging dlls'.
They're loaded from a directory pointed to by a system variable, called "_NT_SYMBOL_PATH"
You set this on the system variables tab.
Or, better, you can set it up in the
Tools->Options->Debugger->Sym
dialog box.
You include the debug symbols versions of system and application dlls here. Things like kernel32.dll, ntdll.dll, etc).
Hope this helps,
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