Watchdog does not recognize Unreal crash

 

Hi there.

The Watchdog is an excellent way to detect an Axy Crash and restart the app automagically.
It doesn't seem to detect crashes in Unreal Engine though (or am I missing something? :-))

If Unreal crashes, the dialog whether or not to create a chrashdump remains open.

It would be cool if Watchdog could detect Unreal crashes as well and restart Axy right away.

Cheers & all the best.

Eric.


   EricWest

 
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Eifert@Aximmetry
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Hi Eric,

It might be best if this wouldn't be done by the Watchdog. As to my understanding, in most cases, you wouldn't even need to restart Aximmetry to recover from an Unreal Engine crash.
We added it to our request list and we will consider adding it in future releases.


Note, you can actually detect the Unreal crash and restart the compound with this simple logic:

But this is far from ideal as you will lose the state of the compound:

Additionally, if you cook Aximmetry without the (Debug) option, there will be no prompt to create a crash dump:
Watchdog does not recognize Unreal crash

Warmest regards,