Game crashes during startup (Mysteriously fixed)

[Casmirre]

When I load the game, it gets to about 48% then crashes to the desktop with no error messages. I have no mods installed and have tried the usual steam stuff including a full uninstall/reinstall. There is nothing in the log that looks like an error as far as I can see but it is included below just in case:

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 0.002 2016-12-14 21:29:40; Factorio 0.14.21 (build 25327, win64, steam)
   0.002 Operating system: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
   0.002 Program arguments: "E:\Program Files (x86)\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.002 Read data path: E:/Program Files (x86)/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.002 Write data path: C:/Users/Me/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.002 Binaries path: E:/Program Files (x86)/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.015 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 4 cores, RAM: 16270MB]
   0.016 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: 100%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255]
   0.020 Available display adapters: 3
   0.020  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series {0x80005, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.020  [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series {0x80001, [1920,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.020  [2]: \\.\DISPLAY3 - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series {0x8080001, [-1920,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.020 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   0.161 Initialised Direct3D:[0] AMD Radeon R9 200 Series; driver: aticfx64.dll 8.17.10.1460
   0.174     Video memory size (dedicated video/dedicated system/shared system/available): 4072/0/3840/3813 MB
   0.254 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   0.255 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=14036
   0.256 Device reset internal.
   0.259 Desktop composition is active.
   0.260 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 30%] [DXT: false]
   0.317 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.321 Loading mod base 0.14.21 (data.lua)
   0.407 Checksum for core: 1291735968
   0.407 Checksum for mod base: 786624017
   0.665 Info PlayerData.cpp:55: Local player-data.json available, timestamp 1481458556
   0.665 Info PlayerData.cpp:62: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
   0.755 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   0.757 Created atlas bitmap 16384x5589
   0.757 Created atlas bitmap 4096x968
   0.757 Created atlas bitmap 4096x3652

[Loewchen]

48% would mean that the game was in the process of loading sprites into memory when it crashed.
First I would test if the standalone version from the website works.

[Casmirre]

Well this is a bizarre occurrence! After downloading the demo and finding that it worked correctly, I then attempted to run the game again and it seems to have started working

I have no idea what has happened but at least I can play again

Thanks for your input

[Loewchen]

Ok, if it happens again try running a memory test, issues that fix themselves are often hardware issues.