I took the zip version and placed it directly into the C drive, with a path of C:\Factorio and was not successful. I attempted virus scans and removing them completely. I still was receiving the error so due to the circumstances I reinstalled windows to a new hard drive as I needed to maintain the ...

Beginning to feel like I am only talking to my self, but I was hoping due to all the fixes they made in 11.9 that I might get lucky and have this resolved. Unfortunately this is not the case, I am still receiving the same error. Still looking forward to any additional insight or guidance on what I ...

Nova,

Thank you very much for the idea, sadly I ended up with the exact same result. I did exactly as stated, extracted the zip to the desktop. Ran the Factorio.exe from within the bin folder, it made a saves folder. I generated a new game and attempted to save and was greeted with the same error ...

I have attempted the uninstall and re-install several times setting the setup.exe to run as administrator as well. Same results, is there any log files I could provide that would shed some light on how I can resolve this issue?

I have another win7 machine that seems to run 11.8 just fine. I attempted to copy its program files over from that machine to this one and still have the same results. They both have the same username so any pathing should be identical. Is there any other programs or libraries I should be checking ...

I am running Windows 7, my user account is an account with administrator privileges. I also went in and set the program to run as admin with the same results? As I mentioned I can downgrade back to 0.11.5 and are able to save games its only with the two newer ones that I receive this error. Any ...

I have attempted to look this error up but, based on the few searches with each unique word I was unable to find a solution. I am able to play 0.11.5 with no issues, but during my attempts to upgrade to 0.11.7 and 0.11.8 I have been getting this error. I have tried uninstalling and/or deleting the ...