posila,

Thank you so very much!!! The first option did the trick... and yes, that makes complete sense as to why it was occurring. I wasn't willing to put the other memory in just to see if it would work as it would be a hassle. Plus all my other applications work SO much better with 8 GB.

Thanks ...

Because I'm getting no replies from the developers, is there a place where I can get support or is this the only option?

Any other suggestions?

How much VRAM does your GT 330M have?
Try using minimum graphics settings by editing the config file.
You could try to run the game on your intel graphics solution and see if that works.

The nvidia board has 512 MB of VRAM. Again, the game was working fine until I upgraded my RAM from 4 GB to 8 ...

I have no mods, no saved games... well, I wouldn't be able to get to them anyway. I haven't been able to play now for a couple of weeks. I have a MacBook Pro with the latest install of Sierra.

The game used to run just fine then all of a sudden it now crashes when it says "Cropping bitmaps" at ...

I'm running Mac OS 10.11.6 and I think I was just running 15.0 a couple of days ago via steam. I had forgot to set it to run 15.x because I'm new to Mac.

Anyway, today it loads exactly to 40% where it says "Cropping Bitmaps" and then crashes every time.

Here is the log:

0.016 2017-08-24 20:00:27 ...

In 15.6, I press M for the map. I have pollution turned on so I can see the red areas. The issue is when I press F4 and turn on "show-pollution-values". It no longer shows those values when zoomed in. When zoomed out, they all kind of get jumbled together anyway. Should they not stay on when zoomed ...

Ok. All I really wanted is to upload a custom map, not a scenario per se, but that is where the custom maps save. So I'll start playing the map for a second, save the game, and then send them the zip file I guess is what you're saying.

I have paid a company to give me a dedicated Factorio server.

Currently, they cannot get just generate a random map, I have to generate it in my copy of Factorio, then upload it to them. When doing so, I went to my AppData/Roaming/Facotorio/Scenarios/<map name> and in that folder there is only a ...