I tried setting the launch options to --force-opengl and that worked for me.
Thanks for the help

Also I use afterburner but not for overclocking just to keep an eye on my gpu.

When playing factorio on steam it will run ok for a short while then crash. but the standalone version runs fine

I was in more or less the same situation. but I was playing locally not in multi player. I had just loaded a save, was walking around my small base then crashed to desktop.