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Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:27 pm**

I've been a frequent Factorio player for the better part of a year now and have had no previous issues running the game on my setup, but after a hiatus of a few weeks I've been unable to start up the game. The game consistently throws an error:

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when I start it up.

My setup is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs) with DirectX 12 installed, using a NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics card:

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Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:58 pm**

Post the log, see 52433.

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2025 4:49 pm**

please find the log attached to this comment

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2025 5:09 pm**

Try the latest driver: https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/details/251166/

Posted: **Mon Jul 28, 2025 6:41 pm**

Running the optional Windows updates relevant to graphics appears to have resolved the issue

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