diff --git a/src/main/integrations/sentry-minidump/index.ts b/src/main/integrations/sentry-minidump/index.ts
index 8ccb41620..02b934713 100644
--- a/src/main/integrations/sentry-minidump/index.ts
+++ b/src/main/integrations/sentry-minidump/index.ts
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ import { deleteMinidump, getMinidumpLoader, MinidumpLoader } from './minidump-lo
 
 interface PreviousRun {
   scope: Scope;
-  release: string;
-  environment: string;
+  event?: Event;
 }
 
 /** Sends minidumps via the Sentry uploader */
@@ -55,8 +54,6 @@ export class SentryMinidump implements Integration {
 
     this._scopeStore = new BufferedWriteStore<PreviousRun>(sentryCachePath, 'scope_v3', {
       scope: new Scope(),
-      release: currentRelease,
-      environment: currentEnvironment,
     });
 
     // We need to store the scope in a variable here so it can be attached to minidumps
@@ -195,11 +192,11 @@ export class SentryMinidump implements Integration {
 
         // Since the initial scope read is async, we need to ensure that any writes do not beat that
         // https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-electron/issues/585
-        setImmediate(() => {
+        setImmediate(async () => {
+          const event = await getEventDefaults(currentRelease, currentEnvironment);
           void this._scopeStore?.set({
             scope,
-            release: currentRelease,
-            environment: currentEnvironment,
+            event,
           });
         });
       });
@@ -211,7 +208,7 @@ export class SentryMinidump implements Integration {
    *
    * Returns true if one or more minidumps were found
    */
-  private async _sendNativeCrashes(event: Event): Promise<boolean> {
+  private async _sendNativeCrashes(eventIn: Event): Promise<boolean> {
     // Whenever we are called, assume that the crashes we are going to load down
     // below have occurred recently. This means, we can use the same event data
     // for all minidumps that we load now. There are two conditions:
@@ -224,6 +221,8 @@ export class SentryMinidump implements Integration {
     //     about it. Just use the breadcrumbs and context information we have
     //     right now and hope that the delay was not too long.
 
+    let event: Event | null = eventIn;
+
     if (this._minidumpLoader === undefined) {
       throw new SentryError('Invariant violation: Native crashes not enabled');
     }
@@ -248,28 +247,31 @@ export class SentryMinidump implements Integration {
           return false;
         }
 
-        const previousRun = await this._scopeLastRun;
+        if (event?.tags?.['event.process'] === 'browser') {
+          const previousRun = await this._scopeLastRun;
+
+          const storedScope = Scope.clone(previousRun?.scope);
+          event = await storedScope.applyToEvent(event);
 
-        const storedScope = Scope.clone(previousRun?.scope);
-        let newEvent = await storedScope.applyToEvent(event);
+          if (event && previousRun) {
+            event.release = previousRun.event?.release;
+            event.environment = previousRun.event?.environment;
+            event.contexts = previousRun.event?.contexts;
+          }
+        }
 
         const hubScope = hub.getScope();
-        newEvent = hubScope ? await hubScope.applyToEvent(event) : event;
+        event = hubScope && event ? await hubScope.applyToEvent(event) : event;
 
-        if (!newEvent) {
+        if (!event) {
           return false;
         }
 
-        if (previousRun) {
-          newEvent.release = previousRun.release;
-          newEvent.environment = previousRun.environment;
-        }
-
         for (const minidump of minidumps) {
           const data = await minidump.load();
 
           if (data) {
-            captureEvent(newEvent, {
+            captureEvent(event, {
               attachments: [
                 {
                   attachmentType: 'event.minidump',
diff --git a/src/main/store.ts b/src/main/store.ts
index 6400ddf2a..bffb0f3c1 100644
--- a/src/main/store.ts
+++ b/src/main/store.ts
@@ -127,15 +127,8 @@ export class BufferedWriteStore<T> extends Store<T> {
    * @param id A unique filename to store this data.
    * @param initial An initial value to initialize data with.
    * @param throttleTime The minimum time between writes
-   * @param immediateFirstWrite Whether to write the first set immediately
    */
-  public constructor(
-    path: string,
-    id: string,
-    initial: T,
-    private readonly _throttleTime: number = 500,
-    private _immediateFirstWrite = true,
-  ) {
+  public constructor(path: string, id: string, initial: T, private readonly _throttleTime: number = 500) {
     super(path, id, initial);
   }
 
@@ -143,12 +136,6 @@ export class BufferedWriteStore<T> extends Store<T> {
   public override async set(data: T): Promise<void> {
     this._data = data;
 
-    // If this is the first write, we write immediately
-    if (this._immediateFirstWrite) {
-      this._immediateFirstWrite = false;
-      return super.set(data);
-    }
-
     this._pendingWrite = {
       // We overwrite the data for the pending write so that the latest data is written in the next flush
       data,
diff --git a/test/unit/store.test.ts b/test/unit/store.test.ts
index e4b369565..4c82cf366 100644
--- a/test/unit/store.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/store.test.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ describe('Store', () => {
     await expectFilesInDirectory(tempDir.name, 0);
 
     await store.set({ num: 990, str: 'just a string' });
-    // Initial write should be immediate
+    // File should not be written after 100ms!
+    await delay(100);
+    await expectFilesInDirectory(tempDir.name, 0);
+    // Should have been written after 1 more second
+    await delay(1_000);
     await expectFilesInDirectory(tempDir.name, 1);
 
     const contents = await readFileAsync(join(tempDir.name, 'test-store.json'), 'utf-8');