Broke game playing with graphics

[Marc]

I played around with the graphics settings and the game complained about failing to load sprites and probably being due to running out of video memory. I cut back on the settings a bit and now the game fails to load when loading sprites. The game is plain vanilla with the new 0.15.9 beta

I tried a few things including turning off my second monitor via Windows Key + P > Computer only to no avail.

I am new to the game and don't know my way around the game files much. Here is the current log file:

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   0.003 2017-05-05 22:56:15; Factorio 0.15.9 (build 29504, win64, steam)
   0.003 Operating system: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
   0.003 Program arguments: "D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.003 Read data path: D:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.003 Write data path: C:/Users/Marc7/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.003 Binaries path: D:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.014 System info: [CPU:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 4 cores, RAM: 8157MB]
   0.014 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: 86%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255]
   0.016 Available display adapters: 1
   0.016  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB {0x80005, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.016 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   0.341 Initialised Direct3D:[0] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB; driver: dlumd64.dll 8.6.3.40660
   0.345     Video memory size (dedicated video/dedicated system/shared system/available): 6045/0/3822/1673 MB
   0.384 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   0.384 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=3360
   0.385 Device reset internal.
   0.387 Desktop composition is active.
   0.387 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.388 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 38.5638%] [DXT: false]
   0.466 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.477 Loading mod base 0.15.9 (data.lua)
   0.619 Loading mod base 0.15.9 (data-updates.lua)
   0.698 Checksum for core: 3409166051
   0.698 Checksum of base: 3769930138
   0.825 Info PlayerData.cpp:55: Local player-data.json available, timestamp 1494039281
   0.825 Info PlayerData.cpp:60: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1493084002
   0.913 Loaded shader file D:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/game.cso
   0.913 Loaded shader file D:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/zoom-to-world.cso
   0.927 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   0.955 Created atlas bitmap 16384x16380
   1.812 Created atlas bitmap 16384x1711
   1.882 Created atlas bitmap 4096x3980
   1.938 Created atlas bitmap 4096x3648
  10.116 Error AtlasSystem.cpp:951: Loading sprites failed: Sprite cropping failed. Captured bitmap data for sprite "__base__/graphics/entity/electric-mining-drill/hr-electric-mining-drill-W-drill-shadow.png" was null.
  10.116 Error Util.cpp:58: Sprite cropping failed. Captured bitmap data for sprite "__base__/graphics/entity/electric-mining-drill/hr-electric-mining-drill-W-drill-shadow.png" was null.
  14.525 DSound: Stopping voice
  14.526 DSound: Joining thread
  14.530 DSound: Exit _dsound_update; tid=3360
  14.530 DSound: Waiting for voice to stop ... signaled
  14.530 DSound: Joined thread
  14.530 DSound: Destroying thread
  14.531 DSound: Thread destroyed
  14.531 DSound: Releasing buffer
  14.531 DSound: Voice stopped
  14.531 DSound: Deallocating voice
  14.531 DSound: Deallocated voice
  14.623 Steam API shutdown.
  14.625 Goodbye
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[Marc]

Problem is fixed.

After repeatedly attempting to open the game with no avail and getting the same results, I stopped trying. Without restarting or closing Steam, I attempted to run the game again and it worked. I don't know what caused it or what fixed it. The game worked with the same version/build that it failed on. I suppose it is possible that another program somehow caused the game to not work. I'll report back if I can get it to repeat.