Yes, there was a dramatic increase in load times from the deletion of the Factorio config file which in turn must've reset the graphics setting back to their normal state. Sadly I'm not aware of what option I used to trigger such extreme load times but I'm simply not going to push my luck and leave ...

So recently I started using my desktop PC to play Factorio, and to say the lease it has been excruciating. THe basis of whats happening is the game will acheive a load time of near 20-30 mins to then finally announce that it is not able to find the background image file for the game. There has been ...