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computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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so i just bought the game on steam and i cannot load it past 89% my laptop screen turns black and then restarts i have tried updating my graphics driver i have tried different builds of the game on steam to no avail. my laptop uses a amd A8-6410 (4 core 2.2 gh) processor with r5 radeon graphics crimson edition, 6 gigs of ram and windows 10

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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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Can you post a logfile from your crash ?
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all i have found is a file called.crash but i dont think thats it my computer at 89% loaded blackscreens then restarts i dont think there is any time for the log to save

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You can find the log file I was talking about by following the instructions in this post (where it says logfile) :
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3638
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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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i cant find any of that i hate steam some days

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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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you have to go to the application directory then factorio and there you have the current log
https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... _directory

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i have looked through the entirety of the file here are some pics https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nd3xsqaaxere ... p4Ksa?dl=0

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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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From the earlier linked wiki

User data directory:

%appdata%\factorio

Just type that in the address bar of your file browser and magic happens

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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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As a workaround for the issue try to navigate to Factorio properties in Steam and set launch options to

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--gfx-safe-mode

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Re: computer crashes at 89% on the loading screen

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that worked posila thankyou so much and thank you smarty and kobu for trying to help me XD

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