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I bought Factorio about a week ago and I am having problems playing it. I was playing for around 30 min to a hour, and my computer freezes. I restarted my computed and laucnched Factorio again. After a little while of gameplay it crashed my computer. I have completely wiped my computer and reinstalled Factorio and I am still getting the same problem.

My computer is a Lenovo Y580 with an Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.40 GHz. It has Windows 8 64 bit with 16 GB of ram. My GPU is a Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 660M. I hope this is enough information and I can start playing again. Thanks in advance!

Sounds for me very, very like overheating. I had once a Lenovo 500 and they tend to have those problems. Have you tried to clean your fans inside? Maybe Ice-spray to find out, which part it is... Or just throttling? That was my solution.

If an application crashes not just itself, but the computer, then to me it looks like a driver problem....

Thanks a lot ssilk! After cleaning out my fan and turning down some settings on my computer, it worked! So once again, thank you and I hope it will keep working!

Cheers,
HypenauticPulse

HypenauticPulse wrote:Thanks a lot ssilk! After cleaning out my fan and turning down some settings on my computer, it worked! So once again, thank you and I hope it will keep working!

Since you are a laptop user and most laptops doesen't like games that are running on maximum FPS I recomend you turn on Low FPS setting in game options. This should lock your game FPS to about 30 FPS and reduce the load on your graphics card quite a bit which would mean that the graphic card won't be heating so much.
I'm a laptop user myself and I use the mentioned option to keep my laptop graphics card cool.

Oh, great that this is solved. Moving to not a bug.