{"id":11735,"date":"2026-10-09T20:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migs.biz\/sessions\/beyond-the-stack-trace-a-crash-in-three-acts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:03:07","slug":"beyond-the-stack-trace-a-crash-in-three-acts","status":"publish","type":"tec_session","link":"https:\/\/migs.biz\/fr\/sessions\/beyond-the-stack-trace-a-crash-in-three-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Stack Trace: A Crash in Three Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a shipped game crashes on a player’s machine, you usually get a stack trace back. Sometimes you only get an error code like DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED. Either way, you learn where the game died but not what it was doing, and you can’t get your hands on the machine to find out.<\/p>\n

I’ll go through three problems we ran into while building crash reporting for games and consoles at Sentry. First, why we wrote our own out-of-process crash backend, and what that made possible on locked-down consoles. Second, how we capture crashes that happen on the GPU or inside the OS. Third, how we turn a raw memory dump back into readable variables and automatically flag memory corruption.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a shipped game crashes on a player’s machine, you usually get a stack trace back. Sometimes you only get an error code like DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED. 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