Yes I do have xmp activated.

No overclocking and my PC has no problems, as stable a system as I've ever run. Cpu usage is 40-50% playing factorio.

Oddly enough it fired up fine this morning... LOL I have no explanation.

This crash happened when I tried to reload mods.

factorio-previous b4 loading mods.log


This crash happened when I tried to load my save with no mods


factorio-current no mods.log

This is a link to my save using IR2 ...

I want to start by saying of the hundreds (thousands?) of PC games I've played I don't think I've ever came across one a with dev's who have done such a thorough and quality job. The word polished get's thrown around a lot but you can't really define that term until you've played Factorio. Whatever ...