Think I giving up on finding the reason for this, I'm moving over to the standalone version on the homepage.
If I still having issues though would unlinking my steam account do anything ? also what would happen to my account here then since I bought Factorio through steam initially

think that's my only option at this point, I'll do that after I've gotten a reply from steam to see what they say

It now both crashed again, there is no audit entry for it either in event viewer either. I turned on audit termination and creation from last time it happend. strange there is no entry of that eitehr. maybe it is my system that is at fault and not game or a program?

Edit:
Just sent a support ticket ...

Steam crashing should create a factorio log entry but it just ends which suggests the OS killing it which should create an error event.


Think I might have an idea of one possible issue that could be related this.
If I update mod or restart the game I usually getting an error regarding Steam API ...

Agreed, I'll look more into it once it happens again. I'll update when it does and about my findings

I've been trying to find one, extensively after I read your reply with filtering for the expected ID's and time frames with no luck.

I did google some more and by default it seems that windows do not log creation and termination of programs, which makes me think that the only clues are in the game ...

I was told on discord I should report this issue.

now the last few weeks I've had a sudden crash of game and steam out of the blue no error, warning and very limited info in the logs from what I've been told

from what I've been told its just that there is a mention of the game crashing not much ...

Well, after a few headaches, I found that this should do the trick in single player mode :
function find_lost_character()
surf = game.get_surface(1)
for ch in surf.get_chunks() do
a = {{ch.x * 32, ch.y * 32}, {ch.x * 32 + 32, ch.y * 32 + 32}}
for k, entity in pairs(surf.find_entities_filtered ...