I just brute force fixed it by resetting my pc to factory, the problem is fixed

Update: it's more than just factorio with this problem, helldivers 2, doom eternal and others I'm sure have the same issue. While monitoring hardware, there's no abnormal readings, just my display flashing off, coming back on to black, occasionally turning orange, windows are black with a white bord...

Okay panic over, my computer is back, but --single-thread-loading didn't work.

Oh I'm in deep doo doo, I think my problem isn't just factorio, my whole system is having an aneurysm. I took the time to reseat everything while waiting for my post to be approved i reaseated hard drives, CPU, GPU, RAM, Everything, not only did it not fix it, but I think my computer is dying, I kn...

Oh I'm in deep doo doo, I think my problem isn't just factorio, my whole system is having an aneurysm. I took the time to reseat everything while waiting for my post to be approved i reaseated hard drives, CPU, GPU, RAM, Everything, not only did it not fix it, but I think my computer is dying, I kno...

Because the issue occurs during sprite loading, which is heavily multithreaded on the CPU, that makes me think something is wrong with your CPU. Driver issue, overheating, something like that. Or maybe it's drawing a lot of power and the PSU doesn't like that for some reason. A way to try whether t...

Version [1.1.104] I've been having this issue for a bit, and I've been able to band aid it occasionally, or the game decides to work, but the issue keeps coming back I'm hoping you smart people could help, I don't know what info you'll need, but ill give you anything short of my IP lol, Please help ...