I encountered the same problem with almost similar symptoms: I was trying to launch Factorio via Steam (klicking on the Desktop Icon with the Steam-App link, Steam not running), a white screen appeared and after about a minute only one "error occurred" dialog popped up and i saw there where two ...

Same problem here on a map created with version 0.13.1 and played with 0.13.1-0.13.3.
The pollution shown on the map is in my case clearly inaccurate and periodically (~0.5s) flickering on the outskirts but not like it normally (reffering to 0.12.x) did. The "bugged" pollution also triggers biter ...