So was playing some more with this this morning. Forcing OpenGL via the ini file allows the game to run in steam w/ overlay, even with the current game ready drivers, but has some texture issues, in particular the water looks... off (see screenshot). It does appear to be stable however.

**EDIT** It ...

Ok, so the feature update changed nothing, however changing from the nvidia game ready to the studio driver caused the issue to resolve, and changing back to game ready caused it to happen again.

Definately seems to be an issue of some sort regarding it, factorio, and steam as other steam games are ...

Uninstalled via steam, did a full delete of the steamapps\common\factorio and appdata\roaming\factorio directories, disabled steam cloud to prevent it pulling any unnecesary files and reinstalled. Still crashed on startup.

I'll try the process of killing processes and seeing if that helps, as per ...

Issue does not occur with stand alone version.

I tried disabling the steam overlay as well and running the steam version, but it still does the same.

Coming back from about a month away from playing and i'm getting consistant crashes on startup. The game will sometimes load into a save/menu, but sometimes will crash oh the loading screen. In any case it consistantly crashes within about 90 seconds of starting the load process.

I've updated GPU ...