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RateCalculator does a great job, and is maintained by a Wube Software employee. Recommended!
Helmod is the most popular by Download count; I think it is too complex.
Recursive Resource Calculator helps determine how many machines you need to ...

Your CPU belongs to the Raptor Lake family, which has known issues that can lead to permanent hardware degradation under certain conditions. If you're experiencing frequent crashes, especially during gaming or high-load scenarios, your CPU may already be damaged. This is not an isolated case, it's a ...

Consider playing directly from downloaded version of the game, not through Steam which messes up syncing to the cloud. No Steam, no problem.

Install Pyanodons Modpack. You will not complain about finishing the game ever again.

PS. I am playing it. 44 hours in, not yet researched an Inserter or Splitter.

Do couple of hours of Memtest86+ (https://memtest.org/), to ensure memory is stable. RAM is used as a buffer for saved files, so the cause of CRC inconsistency can lie there.

Your CPU is from the Raptor Lake family. It may be affected by the known VMin Shift bug, which can cause permanent damage of the CPU.
Refer to this analysis: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/extensive-analysis-of-the-raptor

Since you're experiencing crashes every few hours in Factorio, RMA the CPU ...

Alternatively, you can wait until GOG releases an offline update to a newer version, which you can install manually. I think - I have not practiced it since I bought Space Age directly (first Factorio game on GOG just like you).

But that's more burdensome than using Factorio account method.

GPU core should never hang, when it happens its usually software problem (Windows drivers) or hardware problem (overheat, permanent damage to the GPU, or power supply issue).

Few things come to mind:

See if you can reproduce this problem on Linux.
Test stability of your Nvidia GPU using Furmark ...

Your CPU is a Raptor Lake family. It may have been permanently damaged already, its a known bug.

https://machaddr.substack.com/p/extensive-analysis-of-the-raptor

Return the CPU in RMA warranty process, citing constant crashing in games.

If you can't return it, upgrade motherboard BIOS to the ...

Run memtest86+ overnight, see if it catches anything.

Thanks for the explanation.
I worked around it by placing a Steel Chest in front of the recycler and using a blueprint above. With 60+ slots, the chest never overflows—Legendary ones have 120, so this setup runs indefinitely.

You don't get quality items from Recyclers? I do—it's basically a free ...

But, for some reason, if Recycler has Quality modules, Recycler doesn't want to output anything into the buffer, when belt is disabled. It wants to output things immediately onto the belt, and stops very often, even with Buffer empty. Anyone knows why?


If it rolls a different quality output ...

I've tested it, and it works. Recycler buffers fills up with, for example 100 cogs and many other items, which are being unloaded into the belt fully stacked, when Recycler stops (being full).

But, for some reason, if Recycler has Quality modules, Recycler doesn't want to output anything into the ...

Amazing idea, thanks for sharing!

Don't rule out CPU and motherboard yet. Could be some electrical issue there, damaging data on PCI-E bus. Maybe test that NVMe SSD in another computer?
Great program for testing data integrity is F3 (Fight Flash Fraud), widely available in Linux repositories. I suggest giving it a go from LiveUSB ...

Looks like hardware error. Could be bad RAM, CPU, motherboard, for example. I am gaming on Linux and never had even one single crash.
OP please check memtest86+, also consider using Btrfs for full filesystem checksumming, to find out what is wrong. Reinstall to Btrfs and stay on it.

Current system is fine. Gleba is hard, and great fun at that. Thanks for your thoughts anyway.

Is there any way of saving this file, or do I just replay Gleba and set better autosaves?


Way to fix it? Maybe if one of developers will have time to look and manually fix it with hex editor. Other than that, no.

Next time, just remember to manual Save under incrementing number 1, 2, 3 and so ...

See if you can upgrade that RAM though To add or replace a stick shouldn't be as drastic as full GPU upgrade.

Just breaks everyone's factory, we don't care as long as the game gets better, right guys?

Ugh if my factory breaks in a big way, I'm out.


You'd quit playing a game because the most recent version might change the mechanics? That doesn't really make any sense. Why wouldn't you just stick ...