Mortal Kombat 1 doesn’t really appear to be the most stable fighting game to release in recent times, and that seems especially true for the PC version.
Players on Steam are reporting that MK1 can take up potentially a ton of extra storage space on their computers just for crash reports.
Although it was apparently first pointed out a while back, MK1’s storage issue is currently garnering a lot more attention with many more players revealing how they’ve been impacted after being made aware of it.
Whenever the game crashes on PC, the program reportedly creates an automatic report that can be 1 GB in size or even larger, which adds up really quickly.
Everytime MK1 crashes on PC, it creates a report automatically, and stores 1GB of space for each report LOL.
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— X-Azeez (@X_AZEEZ3) October 17, 2023
Some are even claiming they’ve lost upwards of 45 GB or even 60 GB of space on their hard drives, and that’s pretty absurd for a fighting game that asks you to free up 100 GB for the regular install.
Affected users can reportedly find the files by heading to the Crashes folder on their PC at this location: “C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\MK12\Saved\Steam\Crashes” though there may be more stored at “C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\CrashDumps” as well.
41 GB !!??
— X-Azeez (@X_AZEEZ3) October 17, 2023
As far as we are aware, deleting these crash reports doesn’t have negative impacts on the game or PC.
WB Games Community Manager Cory Thalion hopped into the thread to say the issue has been reported back to the team and is being looked into as well as some of the other problems facing the PC version specifically like stuttering.
I’ve reported this to our team and they are looking at it ASAP.
— Cory | Thalion ECT (@ThalionFTW) October 17, 2023
This of course shouldn’t be affecting console users, but there’s still other problems with MK1 that need to ironed out overall like Sindel’s basically inescabable touch of death combo and Shujinko breaking the game.
Until a fix is in place, it’s probably best to keep a close eye on that crash folder to make sure it doesn’t eat up your remaining hard drive space.