Reading from a post in factorio sub-reddit, going into nivida settings panel and turning v-sync off and on again fixes the issue, dont know what has changed in 17.46 or 17.47 because 17.45 ran fine without issue prior to doing this.

Hi, I get a horizontal line of screen tearing happen in a localized part of the screen, it moves to a different location when the game is restarted, with or without v-sync enabled. Also was apparent in 0.17.46. I attach a picture using my phone to show the tearing, screenshoting or video recording f...