Thanks for the help.

I figured out today that a combination of steam streaming and my old ethernet adapter driver was causing this. I don't know whyit hasn't happened with other games, but updating my ethernet driver seems to have resolved it. I did take a memory dump of factorio the last time it ...

I have so far been unable to reproduce, I did use the console to set biters to peaceful but I doubt that has anything to do with it. Another difference that I thought of between my test and when it has actually happened is that I normally play streaming through steam, so I guess that's the new most ...

factorio-previous.log - which I believe is the log from when I had to kill it to figure out what was wrong: https://pastebin.com/y9zMYThL

I'm going to leave factorio running and see if I can catch it right before my computer locks up and capture a memory dump. If we're lucky it grows gradually from ...

About four times now, after playing the .15.x builds for sessions over two hours, my PC eventually starts to chug. Usually by the time I notice it's happening my computer isn't responsive enough to even let me close Factorio before the whole thing locks up, but last time I was able to kill Factorio ...