Just posting an update if anyone reads this: as of todays update (1.1.91) I can now run my fully modded Factorio on steam with no changes to make it work.
Previously nothing would help even disabling the steam overlay, I could only play the non-steam client.
Well, as of today everything is working ...

Force opengl didn't seem to work with the steam edition, and I did not try another driver.

However, the standalone version runs perfectly fine as is with or without mods, so that would solve my issue!
Thank you for the help anyway.

Loewchen wrote: Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:43 am Try removing RivaTuner.

Same results with RivaTuner both closed and uninstalled. Thank you for the suggestion though.

Hello, I have been encountering some crashing issues since the last update I believe. I took a break from the game but I have been unable to play and have been crashing for a number of months, going back to troubleshoot and see if the most recent update fixed it, but it has not.

The crash occurs ...