[0.18.1] Crash on starting from Steam, also crashes Steam

[19wolf]

Not sure what kind of information can help with this- I'm on Mac and when I try to start Factorio from Steam, it starts to load and then crashes, and Steam also crashes...

Other games start find so I don't think it's a Steam issue. If I try

[Klonan]

Not sure what kind of information can help with this-

Can you provide a log file?
https://wiki.factorio.com/Log_file

[19wolf]

Sorry about that! It's been a while since I've played/reported a bug

https://pastebin.com/xzHw8tiM

[Honktown]

bruh

0.780 Error ModManager.cpp:864: Mod package read error. File /Users/19wolf/Library/Application Support/factorio/mods/Archive.zip/info.json not found

If you want to back up stuff, it can't be .zip or Factorio will try and load it and hard-error on start. Edit: misread your post. That's crazy it crashes steam, too.

[19wolf]

Yeah I noticed that, unfortunately deleting it didn't help

[Rseding91]

Failing to read a mod because it finds it's missing the info.json doesn't crash the game.

Without a full log file showing what's actually crashing there's nothing we can do. The log file you provided shows no crash. So, if it is crashing - it's not in Factorio and not something we can work on.

I suspect steam might be broken and it's crashing in steam while Factorio is trying to init the steam logic. Maybe try repair-installing steam?

[b3y]

I am also getting this.

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  0.000 2020-01-26 15:01:13; Factorio 0.17.79 (build 47865, mac, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: macOS 10.15.2
   0.001 Program arguments: "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents/MacOS/factorio" 
   0.001 Read data path: /Users/me/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents/data
   0.001 Write data path: /Users/me/Library/Application Support/factorio [100559/424385MB]
   0.001 Binaries path: /Users/me/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents
   0.050 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 16384 MB]
   0.050 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmW] [Lang: en]
   0.464 Available displays: 1
   0.465  [0]: Color LCD - {[0,0], 1440x900, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888, 60Hz, 0x7bd7f479(0x01)}
   0.903 Initialised OpenGL:[0] AMD Radeon R9 M370X OpenGL Engine; driver: 4.1 ATI-3.4.19
   0.903   [Size] Window: 1440x855, Backbuffer: 2880x1710
   0.903   [Extensions] s3tc:yes; KHR_debug:NO; ARB_clear_texture:NO, ARB_copy_image:NO
   0.903   [Version] 4.1
   0.903 Graphics settings preset: high
   0.903   Dedicated video memory size 2048 MB (detected from AMD Radeon R9 M370X Compute Engine; VendorID: 0x1021c00)
   1.010 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 25%] [DXT: high-quality] [Color: 32bit]
   1.010                   [Max threads (load/render): 32/8] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: 1] [Rotation quality: low] [Other: STDC]
   1.402 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   1.524 Loading mod base 0.17.79 (data.lua)
   1.753 Loading mod base 0.17.79 (data-updates.lua)
   1.880 Checksum for core: 2035938594
   1.880 Checksum of base: 4156627525
   2.049 Prototype list checksum: 2767119397
   2.127 Loading sounds...

[Rseding91]

You're both on Mac - which might be the common issue.

In both cases the log file shows no crash.

[trollied]

I had exactly the same crash just now on macos, at the same place in the log file. Steam would also die.

Fixed it by opting out of betas in the Steam preferences (Steam->Preferences->Account->Beta Participation, change to Not Participating), then letting it download the latest stable version & have it restart itself.

[Rseding91]

I had exactly the same crash just now on macos, at the same place in the log file. Steam would also die.

Fixed it by opting out of betas in the Steam preferences (Steam->Preferences->Account->Beta Participation, change to Not Participating), then letting it download the latest stable version & have it restart itself.

Great. So it's a Steam bug and they'll have to fix it on their end