Apologies for taking so long to get back to you. irl and work has been a killer, lately.

Modifying the application launch settings in Steam appears to have fixed it? I'm attaching two screenshots, one of the game with "--force-opengl" minus the quotes applied in Steam, the other is a screenshot of ...

I have extracted the .exe from the attached zip into steam\steam apps\common\factorio\bin\x64

After toggling on linear filtering and restarting factorio for it to take effect, the bug is still present. Toggling mipmap lod bias does not have an effect. Going into the negative has no visible effect ...

I'll be damned, it has to have been something on my machine then, because I'm getting the same issue on 15.35

Where do I/we go from here?

Testing it now. I'll do it with mods, and without, to be totally thorough.

I am signed up for experimental, yes. I've been playing .15.x since before it became stable - I didn't stop and look at the versioning, but I should have been on 15.36 prior.

I did update my OS from windows 7 to windows 10, but that was over a week ago, and I've put in at least a dozen hours of ...

I updated Factorio to 15.37 via Steam before loading it today. Upon loading in, I noticed that the menus were transparent. I thought this was odd, but didn't pay much attention or concern to it. Upon loading into a game proper, I noticed that all of the menus were transparent, as well as the icons ...