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Yesterday I played the game without any problems for at least 4 hours. Building, redesigning, moving around. Glitch-less. This morning loading the save of last night (included) the game crashed on load. Meaning looking at the loading progress bar on the screen and getting the error message box. No clue as to what might have gone wrong.

The only other program (a part from all the background processes and services) running was Firefox.

The game crashed less than a second after launch, before you could even try to load a game.

hello @Loewchen,

Thanks for the reply. I feel supported. Your description is technical probably more insightful. I can confirm that the game never got to the displaying or loading of the main menu. I indeed got the error message box (long?) before that.

What might be going wrong after closing down my PC for the night and booting it the next morning?

After reporting the crash I followed the suggestions in the message box. I shut down and booted the PC. I validated the local files of Factorio. All good. Started the game through Steam interface again. Same behavior. Looked in the log file and saw again DirextX failing. Without rebooting I opened another game through Steam. Sovjiet Republic Workers & Resources. Also heavily depending on DirextX. No problem there. So ... ??

I'd try if the .zip Installation works.

are you using Sleep mode on the PC? that crashes for me if I leave factorio running while it sleeps.

hello @Ptx0,

Thanks for the idea. I feel supported.

I have no sleep mode configured.