I actually manage to fix it myself, going to post all of the things I did in the hope it helps anyone that comes across this post, some things in here I am not sure if they helped fix but I will list them anyways.

First off my command was wrong it was only creating the save file.
so I changed it to ...

What was your issue, I am having the same thing happen and no errors!

I am trying to run this on a windows server separate from the computer I am going to play on.

Here is my script that I run to start the server
"C:/Program Files/Factorio/bin/x64/factorio.exe" --create "C:/Program Files/Factorio/saves/my-save.zip" --server-settings "C:/Program Files/Factorio/data ...