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[1.0.0] Crash on every time when starting the game with SDL_Error

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:38 pm
by jimmywong185
I have installed the game via Steam and I got same error on every start with SDL_Error. I'm waiting for help with many thanks.

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   0.002 2020-10-28 03:33:27; Factorio 1.0.0 (build 54889, win64, steam)
   0.002 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1903) 
   0.003 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" "--force-opengl" 
   0.003 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.003 Write data path: C:/Users/APLui/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [306242/487258MB]
   0.003 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.041 System info: [CPU:         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 9975/16367 MB, page: 20204/33775 MB, virtual: 4347/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.041 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
   0.048 Available displays: 1
   0.048  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.231 Error SDLWindow.cpp:193: Failed to create an application window. SDL_Error: Invalid window
   0.231 Error Util.cpp:83: Failed to create an application window. SDL_Error: Invalid window

Re: [1.0.0] Crash on every time when starting the game with SDL_Error

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:14 pm
by Rseding91
Try removing the "--force-opengl" command line option. You shouldn't need it for Windows.

Unless, that was one of your attempts to make it work :)

Re: [1.0.0] Crash on every time when starting the game with SDL_Error

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:18 pm
by jimmywong185
That was one of my attempt to fix... thanks anyway

Re: [1.0.0] Crash on every time when starting the game with SDL_Error

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:20 pm
by Rseding91
Other things you could try: make sure your graphics card is updated, try updating windows (I notice it was last updated May of 2019).