The day before the game broke everything ran just fine. I never added/removed any mods, or changed any settings so im not sure what could have changed to cause the crashing.

I've attempted both restarting my computer, and shutting it down and letting it sit overnight.

The log attached to the post was the only one i was able to find. I have 16gb of Ram and this is the first time in my 2-3 years of having this computer that i have had issues with it, as well as the fact that every other game i have runs perfectly fine.

Edit: i just attempted to start the game ...

For the last 2 days I've been trying to play factorio, but it crashes while in the startup loading screen. It first slows down at 4% and uses a lot of ram when loading Wide-Chests, but usually makes it past after a bit of time. Then it reaches 9% and starts loading space-exploration-postprocess ...