Getting detailed crash dumps from a hooked exe

Question

I am trying find a problem with my program that is hooking into a game. This is vc++. Basically I launch the program and then hook into it using SDL. When I run the code from VS

Answer 1

You can perform postmortem debugging by using a combination of the WER registry keys/values to trap any dump that is produced. I’ve used this method to prevent the WER system from collecting the dump file (.dmp). I’ve also written about this in another similar post. To accomplish this, you will need to create a registry key under

Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting

if one does not already exist. The key should be

LocalDumps\your application.exe

Once that’s done, modify these keys/values to meet your needs:

DumpCount, DumpFolder, DumpType

You’ll need Administrator rights to create and modify the keys, and, you should reset everything you’ve modified when you’re done debugging.