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Crash on reaching Main Menu [2.0.76]

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 1:12 am
by Graklinghunter
What did you do?
Launch the game with mods enabled, and reach the Main Menu

What happened?
The game crashed without any specific error

What did you expect to happen instead?
Play menu simulation and remain at the main menu normally

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
About 50% of the time

Detailed explanation:
I'm experiencing a strange, semi-frequent crash on starting up the game with mods loaded. It goes through the initial loading screen as normal without errors or issues, and then about 50% of the time when I get to the main menu and it starts playing a background simulation, it freezes for a moment and then crashes. I've confirmed it's not a crash when trying to play a specific menu simulation from a mod or something, as I've left it running on the main menu on times it didn't crash and let it play through all of the simulations without crashing. That said, there are a handful of simulations that make the menu pause for a split second when it switches to them - I'm unsure which specific ones cause this. This issue also happened when playing on 2.0.73

I'm guessing if it has randomly chosen one of the simulations that cause a hiccup as the very first simulation to play, that hiccup makes the game think it's crashed.

Re: Crash on reaching Main Menu [2.0.76]

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 1:16 am
by Loewchen
Try disabling any overlays including from steam.

Re: Crash on reaching Main Menu [2.0.76]

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 9:53 am
by pioruns
Alternatively, play game directly, without Steam interference. You can download here:
https://factorio.com/download

Re: Crash on reaching Main Menu [2.0.76]

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 3:36 pm
by Graklinghunter
It appears my issue was that the graphics setting was on X11 for some reason. I changed it to Wayland and have been able to launch multiple times without crashing.