Ooof!

This process makes me nervous about breaking things and losing materials/products.

But I'm assuming if this process is how you were able to fix it for me, and only the radar coverage ended up being a problem (but easily resolved), then it's a scary but viable option.

Thank you again so much ...

Ahhh... so max tick value. Makes sense.

So, I noticed when I loaded the fixed save, it looked like a couple commands were issued.

wackye (command): game.print(game.tick)
4294967218
wackye (command): game.print(game.tick)
1865

I'm assuming this was a change in the tick value that resulted in it ...

Thank you, Genhis!

Out of curiousity, what limits of Factorio was hit?

I'd like to try and avoid this unfortunate event in the future.

Also, everything seems to look OK, except for the map view. For some reason there are a few areas that are covered by radars but are dark (fog of war), but the ...

While frozen, nothing responds. It won't let you do anything. It won't let you click on anything. No keys work. I've had the rocket GUI open at the time of freeze on several attempts to diagnose issue, and it won't even let you close it. Map view won't open/close

The only thing that can be done is ...

The game just seems to lock up and freeze for no apparent reason on one particular map/save. It first happened inn 1.1.50. I had to open task manager and end task to close it out. When I loaded the game back up, it updated to 1.1.53, but still froze at the exact same point in the map/save.

I tried ...