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Posted: **Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:08 pm**

(first of all: sry for my bad english )

really often steam starts multiple instances of the game and freeze then. i dont know if this an error of the game or from steam.
most of the time it starts two instances, but sometimes three instances.

not the biggest problem, but a little bit annoying.
i had this problem in 12.24 and now in 12.25

os. win8.1 (up to date)
graphic. ati hd7950
play in fullscreen

http://abload.de/img/factmiu57.png
funfact this time: first instance starts at screen1 and the other instance on screen2
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0.002 2016-03-05 17:49:10; Factorio 0.12.25 (Build 17747, win64)
   0.002 Operating system: Windows 8.1 
   0.002 Program arguments: "H:\spiele\steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.002 Read data path: H:/spiele/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.002 Write data path: C:/Users/drnkns/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.002 Binaries path: H:/spiele/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.236 Available display adapters: 2
   0.236  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series {0x80001, [-1920,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.237  [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series {0x80005, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.237 Create display on adapter 1. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
  10.244 Failed to create display on adapter 1. Trying adapter 0.
  20.276 Error Util.cpp:57: failed to create display!

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:42 pm**

It doesn't start multiple instances, it tries initialize graphics API several times (which creates a window each time). After all attempts fail, it shows the error.

Do you have up-to-date graphics drivers?

Posted: **Fri Mar 18, 2016 3:30 pm**

It was up-to-date.
Now i have windows 10 and get the error again (up-to-date drivers).

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   0.001 2016-03-18 16:13:30; Factorio 0.12.26 (Build 17762, win64)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 
   0.001 Program arguments: "H:\spiele\steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.001 Read data path: H:/spiele/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.001 Write data path: C:/Users/drnkns/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.001 Binaries path: H:/spiele/steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.017 Available display adapters: 2
   0.017  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series {0x01, [-1920,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.018  [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.018 Create display on adapter 1. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
  10.018 Failed to create display on adapter 1. Trying adapter 0.
  20.075 Error Util.cpp:57: failed to create display!

extra: maybe i found somebody with the same error ^^

Posted: **Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:39 pm**

Hi, 0.12.27 was released. It contains some more verbose logging of display creation process. Could you please switch to experimental branch on Steam (Right-click Factorio -> Properties -> Betas and select "experimental") and send log from 0.12.27 when it happens again?

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2016 4:57 pm**

hii, hmmm... with 12.27 i can't reproduce it (yet). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
blind fixes are the best fixes

if i dont post in the next 24hours, i think, the "bug" is gone.

[24h later]
it's gone ^^

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