I'm having a similar issue. I am running no mods.

0.002 2020-08-06 22:40:15; Factorio 0.18.43 (build 54329, win64, steam)
0.002 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1903)
0.003 Program arguments: "E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe"
0.004 Read data path: E:/Steam ...

Playing through Steam, there are 38 achievements. Please expand this... I would like to see maybe 50 new ones....

Some suggestions:

1) Kill X number of creatures using <YYY> technology - flame, laser, bullet, nuclear, etc.
2) Launch rocket without nuclear power
3) Expand the base to be XX wide
4 ...

I saved, then I tried going to Settings -> Other and log out and log back in. Logged off just fine. When I tried to log back in, I got the following error:

Couldn't parse the response from the auth server. This seems to be an internal server error
10327.429 Info AppManagerStates.cpp:1802: Saving ...

As a follow up, I tried to host a public game. I did not change any settings. If failed with the following error:

Notice: Couldn't pares the response from the auth server. This seems to be an internal server error.

My choice was to click "confirm", which then kicked me back to the Multiplayer ...

I played something like version .17.13 or 14. I just did an update to the current version. I tried connecting to my friend's game and it would not connect. I tried everything I could think of with no luck. I tried connecting to public servers and they would not load with a json error. After a few ...

--force-opengl

was the fix.

Thanks!

I've tried logging in a few times today. It errors out. It worked fine before the latest update. Below is the contents of the log file. FYI, this is running on display 3 - nvidia GeForce GTX 910 - it looks like the logs may be saying display 1, if I am reding it correctly.



0.002 2016-12-08 22 ...