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Waste of disk space
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:39 pm
by apriori
Why do devs include factorio.pdb in the releases? AFAIK it's garbage for the end-user. Renaming or removing it does not affect the game (tested), but it takes 200+ MB of disk space (30+ when archived).
Re: Waste of disk space
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:44 pm
by daniel34
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=24750
The reason is to produce a human-readable stracktrace for the log file in case a crash occurs.
Re: Waste of disk space
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:58 am
by bk5115545
It's very common for some kind of symbol table to be included in modern games, especially beta games.
I'm sure the modding community really appreciates the inclusion of a pdb.