[posila][for 0.17][0.16.36] Can't start Factorio after alt-tab during loading
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 4:00 pm
Occasionally when I'm starting Factorio 0.16.36 on windows, it pauses on the loading screen at 40% for a while. It seems to always recover if I wait, but if I alt-tab to another application during that time, then it hangs and I have to let windows kill it.
Thereafter, if I run it again, it fails to start with error message "Error" "Initialization failed. Error code: 01".
If I try running it multiple times, it still fails. Killing the steam services with task manager doesn't help. Restarting the computer made it all ok again.
As best as I can tell, the problem has occurred every time I alt-tab when it get temporarily stuck at 40% (at leasts 3-4 times) Alt-tabbing any other time hasn't ever present any problem (even during the loading screen at 40%, if it's not paused there). Every time the problem happened I needed to restart my PC, but restarting has always fixed it.
This is not presenting a problem for me (I just don't do that), so I'm not interested in a fix/workaround, I don't expect it to be important, but I'm reporting it just in case it's useful, and I'm happy to help if there's anything I can do. I know most likely this is a dup and/or something idiosyncratic about the graphics on my laptop, but I couldn't find anything by searching the forum so I'm reporting it just in case.
I believe the logs are from the time it hanged and I had to kill it, and the next time I ran it and it failed to start (but I'm not 100% sure).
(Thank you again, I am enjoying Factorio so much!)
Thereafter, if I run it again, it fails to start with error message "Error" "Initialization failed. Error code: 01".
If I try running it multiple times, it still fails. Killing the steam services with task manager doesn't help. Restarting the computer made it all ok again.
As best as I can tell, the problem has occurred every time I alt-tab when it get temporarily stuck at 40% (at leasts 3-4 times) Alt-tabbing any other time hasn't ever present any problem (even during the loading screen at 40%, if it's not paused there). Every time the problem happened I needed to restart my PC, but restarting has always fixed it.
This is not presenting a problem for me (I just don't do that), so I'm not interested in a fix/workaround, I don't expect it to be important, but I'm reporting it just in case it's useful, and I'm happy to help if there's anything I can do. I know most likely this is a dup and/or something idiosyncratic about the graphics on my laptop, but I couldn't find anything by searching the forum so I'm reporting it just in case.
I believe the logs are from the time it hanged and I had to kill it, and the next time I ran it and it failed to start (but I'm not 100% sure).
(Thank you again, I am enjoying Factorio so much!)