Any chance you might also be running out of memory?

Looks like there are some good tips here for configuration and launch options to reduce your graphics settings: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9300.

Maybe give those a shot and see if the game's able to load?

I recently had a similar issue with the latest version, 2.0.28. Factorio would just get stuck on loading, the cursor would change to the spinning donut, and never resolve. Trying to pull up Resource Monitor would fade out the window and offer to end process. I could only terminate by ending process ...

Gotcha. Will do. I really appreciate your responsiveness! Thank you.

It just happened to me again and now I've been able to reproduce the exact circumstances as well as figure out a fix that doesn't require using the command line interface.

The culprit is the Factory Planner mod. If you have it set to pause the game when you open FP, and alt-tab out to Windows with ...

Oh, sweet. Thank you so much!

Any idea what might've happened? Did I just happen to hit some weird key combo to slip into limbo?

I stepped away from my game for a while and returned to find it abruptly partially frozen. I have my autosave set for every minute and my last hard save was hours ago, so I'm really hoping there's a way to recover this, but I know it's probably a long shot.

I was playing with mods and I tried ...