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I recently decided to redownload Factorio to play a little but game hangs at startup. Deleting the game and redownloading it fixes the issue BUT it comes back after restarting PC. The problem persists even on clean install.

It could be the mods. I've had mods cause my opening of factorio to sit at 40% for minutes, try uninstalling them and see if that fixes the problem. It could be just one mod causing the whole problem. Usually, because of sprite rendering for many mods, it sits at 40% because that is the "sprite loading" phase, and a mod could be causing a sprite to not render or load, but also not crash the mod itself and the game.

Try --single-thread-loading in the steam start options or simply force opengl.