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After finding out about the intel issue I came across this news that intel released a BIOS correction (September 27th) for that issue which might solve it - if the CPU isn't toasted already, since my CPU seemed fine until now, I tried updating to this last release which supposedly corrects ...

Interesting, haven't heard of that, is my CPU faulty or something?

Yes. The only question is, if this is caused by that defect.

And, also, wouldn't that have happened before the DLC if that's the case?

https://forums.factorio.com/111696 https://forums.factorio.com/114550

I meant on my ...

This might be fixed in 2.0.9, you steam storage quota is also getting low, it might help to clear out some saves on your factorio steam cloud.

Ok, thanks for the update, I'll look into how to clear the steam storage and delete all (or most of) my saves!


From the description alone and the fact ...

After installing SA I can no longer preview the worlds I'm creating, when I press "Preview", it generates the map preview then the game crashes after 1-5 seconds (it varies for some reason, but usually it's instant)

I can play the game just fine though

I had many different worlds created before ...