Thank you very much for your assistance. Forcing OpenGL did fix the game crashing. And I'm in the process of backing up all of my files and just waiting for the new HDD to arrive in the mail.

I should update this. I recently discovered I'm having fatal errors on my HDD, so I'm attributing the unusual behavior of factiorio with that. Unless someone can make some sense out of the crash log that I'm not seeing.

Hi, I've been playing factorio for a while now without issue but a couple of days ago the game just started crashing on load up. Yesterday it corrected itself with a restart but now, not even that is fixing whatever is wrong. It just keeps going unresponsive and generating a crash log. The only mod ...