SOLVED: The problem I was having seems to have been caused by a piece of software I had installed, called Duet Display, which lets you use an iPad as a PC monitor. Removed it and that fixed the problem pretty much instantly.

Loewchen wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:05 am

Try launch option: --single-thread-loading

This launch option doesn't seem to have any effect on the problem, the window still freezes on launch at 0%.

Think this issue is probably display driver related, but I don't know why reinstalling the drivers did not fix the problem.

Hi, My factorio install will not launch when run with my laptop's dedicated Nvidia GPU. The loading screen stops at zero percent and the window freezes, then Factorio is shown as not responding by windows task manager. Factorio will only launch when set to run with the integrated graphics chip, but ...