Rseding91 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 10:33 pm Thanks for the report. You need to update windows.

Well I can confirm, I bit the bullet, updated M$ spyware, then re-disabled all the spyware from the update, and you were right. Factorio works now without complaining about the inability to write and delete files!

I don't know if anyone found out exactly why, but the common thread of this problem is an instance of Windows 10 that's several major versions out of date. There's little incentive for Factorio devs to support that.


I just don't understand why it has become a problem now. I think will mean I ...

The game needs you to update windows to be able to delete a file it created?
What is actually causing the problem?

Verifying files via Steam gave no errors.
Deleted and reinstalled, and writeguard errors still showing in file.
Hacked config file to change the location of the mods and config and still getting writeguard errors but it looks like it is working now.

So in summary, it wasn't LTN, but something that ...

Checking the Factorio startup log is showing a lot of:

"Error FileUtil.cpp:401: Couldn't remove XXX" where XXX is a file always in my user appdata\roaming folder. I am guessing some kind of permission issue.

I have completely removed the game and am trying a full reinstall see if this solves the ...

When I try to start a game, with all the default settings for a new game, but with LTN enabled I get the error:

"Deserialisation error, target with id 5442 doesn't exist"

I use a lot of mods and this is one of about 3 or 4 that give me a deserialisation error (different ID's for different mods tho ...