Crash idling on Fulgora

[iestynne]

I was just standing there by my research labs on Fulgora waiting for some techs to complete.
Looks like it crashed ~5m after the latest autosave.
Factorio was in the background when it crashed, it did not have focus.
(I was running some Python ML scripts... maybe they took up too much memory??)

Guys. This is the first time Factorio has EVER crashed for me. I've played over 1000 hours. I can't tell you how impressed I am by this, given the complexity of this game. You are, no exaggeration, one of the best engineering teams in the world.

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. It crashed rendering a transport belt. This has historically virtually always meant failing hardware (typically CPU). The log file shows you have a 13th gen intel CPU - do you have the latest BIOS installed? I suspect your CPU may be failing due to the intel 13th/14th gen CPU failure issues (You can search about it and find many articles).

That is, unless you happen to know of a way to reliably reproduce this crash then it might be an issue with Factorio.

[iestynne]

Wow, I didn't know about that. I'll check out some articles and see if I can find a BIOS fix. Thanks for the heads up!

Should have known better than to suspect an actual bug in Factorio

[iestynne]

Oh you know what, I remember reading this RadGameTools post before, I just didn't realize it might apply to me. Thanks for pointing me in this direction!

https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm