I played for over 2 hours and didn't experience a crash, I will try again tomorrow. (PS, I'm also running this on my laptop to test on that at the same time).

HitmanPro seems to be related to Sophos Anti-virus, which I have on my desktop and laptop so if it's my AV hopefully I'll be able to ...

posila wrote: If it really is caused by bad exeuctable, it might not be intentional modification but random corruption of the executable (therefore OP should verify integrity of the game files in Steam)

I have already checked the integrity, and reinstalled the game.

Thanks for everyone looking into this. Just to confirm I am not editing anything to do with the game other than installing mods, I am not using cheat engine or anything like that.

As explained earlier I also uninstalled and reinstalled the game and reproduced the error, the issue started randomly ...

Hey kovarex. I've ran an integrity check on the Factorio installation - all files validated successfully.

I uninstalled the game completely, including the %APPDATA%/Factorio directory (backed up my saves) and reinstalled it with all my mods and I reproduce the error.

The issue started happening ...

I also experience the same issue randomly, not all the time though.

{
"mods": [
{
"name": "base",
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "5dim_automatization",
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "5dim_core",
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "5dim_energy",
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "5dim_logistic",
"enabled": true
},
{
"name": "5dim_mining",
"enabled": true ...