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What did you do?
I launched the latest experimental version (1.1.46) of Factorio from Steam (running on my Windows computer). This is how I normally launch the game.

What happened?
I turned my attention away from the computer for a minute. When I came back, an error message was on the screen. The game had apparently failed to load properly when it was only partway through the loading process.
It was not the type of error message with the nice Factorio GUI frame, it was an error message box created through the operating system.

What did you expect to happen instead?
I expected that when I turned my attention back to the computer, Factorio would be on the main menu screen awaiting my input.

Steps to reproduce...?
I have no clue how to reproduce this bug. This is the first time I have ever seen the game crash before loading the menu.
After seeing the error message, I copied the log file into a separate directory, then relaunched the game in the exact same manner. This time, it loaded properly with no signs of any issues.

Looking at the crash it seems to be crashing trying to initialize the graphics API. I notice you have an APU (CPU and GPU combo) and that it's trying to initialize the Open GL interface instead of DirectX. Did you specifically set it to that? If so, try changing it back. Otherwise it might be an outdated graphics driver.

I haven't changed any graphics settings (either on my computer or in Factorio) in quite a while.
I'll try updating my graphics drivers.
Thanks.

Rseding might have gotten logs mixed up, it is using Direct3D and you have Intel integrated GPU (which technically still is APU, I suppose). The crash happend in Intel graphics driver, in it's own thread, which is completely outside of our control. Your driver version is pretty recent, but there are updates.

posila wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 3:44 pm Rseding might have gotten logs mixed up, it is using Direct3D and you have Intel integrated GPU (which technically still is APU, I suppose). The crash happend in Intel graphics driver, in it's own thread, which is completely outside of our control. Your driver version is pretty recent, but there are updates.

Ah whoops :\