[0.17.11] Texture Compression makes graphics explode (i.e. make the game unplayable). Mac OSX 10.11.6

[Sevans7]

What did you do? Load game through Steam, enter new or previously loaded world with Texture Compression set to something other than "None".
What happened? Graphics of overworld were corrupted. It seems the world is mechanically functioning properly, I just can't actually see what I'm doing because of the graphics. (see image 1 & 2).
What did you expect to happen instead? Expect graphics to be fine!
Write down the steps to reproduce the bug if you know them. Load game through Steam on Mac OSX 10.11.6 with Texture Compression set to Low Quality or High Quality. (Texture Compression requires restart to update, so I changed value before quitting game, then reentered game.) Start a new world, or enter a previously created one.
Does it happen always, once, or sometimes? Happens always - I have done multiple tests with each setting for Texture Compression, with other graphics settings constant. (See screenshots)

image 1:

image 1 - Unplayable graphics when Texture Compression is set to None.

Screen Shot 2019-03-12 at 9.03.07 PM.png (872.18 KiB) Viewed 2363 times

image 2:

image 2 - Corrupted graphics evident. Result after walking around a bit in-game.

Screen Shot 2019-03-12 at 9.03.44 PM.png (5.7 MiB) Viewed 2363 times

image 3:

image 3 - Cleaner graphics when Texture Compression is set to None. Note the graphics are still not perfect though, there is a clear grid in the background colors, and e.g. the edge-of-lake tiles look vey strange.

Screen Shot 2019-03-12 at 9.01.37 PM.png (6.89 MiB) Viewed 2363 times

If I am missing anything important & helpful please let me know, this is my first time reporting a bug.

[danielbrauer]

When you choose Apple Menu>About This Mac..., what does it say for Graphics?

Does this problem occur for you in all 0.17.x releases, or is it new in 0.17.11?

Have you tried playing with the Texture Streaming, Atlas Size, or Video Memory Usage options?

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
Please post also Factorio log from

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~/Library/Application Support/factorio/factorio-current.log

[Sevans7]

Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
The problem occurs in all 0.17.x releases after 0.17.(2 or 3). Before 0.17.(2 or 3) I can't get the game to launch at all. (I don't recall if the cutoff is at .2 or at .3. If it would be very helpful to know this let me know and I can go back and check, but at the moment I am pressed for time.)
I may have tried different combinations of playing with the Texture Streaming, Atlas Size, or Video Memory Usage options, but I didn't track it. If I devote more time to messing with the factorio settings I will investigate if any combination of these setting fixes or helps the graphics issue.

Steps to generate following log:
Opened the game, and switched Texture Compression=None to =Low Quality. Exited the game. Opened the game and entered a new world. Exited the game. The following is the "factorio-current.log" .

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 0.000 2019-03-14 13:09:41; Factorio 0.17.11 (build 43576, mac, steam)
   0.000 Operating system: macOS 10.11.6
   0.000 Program arguments: "/Users/Sevans/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents/MacOS/factorio" 
   0.000 Read data path: /Users/Sevans/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents/data
   0.000 Write data path: /Users/Sevans/Library/Application Support/factorio [91342/238208MB]
   0.000 Binaries path: /Users/Sevans/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents
   0.005 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 16384 MB]
   0.005 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
   0.048 Available displays: 1
   0.048  [0]: Color LCD - {[0,0], 1440x900, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888, 60Hz}
   0.101 Initialised OpenGL:[0] Intel Iris Pro OpenGL Engine; driver: 4.1 INTEL-10.14.73
   0.101   [Size] Window: 1436x855, Backbuffer: 2872x1710
   0.101   [Extensions] s3tc:yes; KHR_debug:NO; ARB_clear_texture:NO, ARB_copy_image:NO
   0.101   [Version] 4.1
   0.217 Graphics settings preset: high
   0.217   Dedicated video memory size 1536 MB (detected from Iris Pro; VendorID: 0x1024500)
   0.217 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 25%] [DXT: low-quality]
   0.217                   [Max load threads: 32] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: 1] [Rotation quality: low] [Color: 32bit]
   0.421 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.510 Loading mod base 0.17.11 (data.lua)
   0.707 Loading mod base 0.17.11 (data-updates.lua)
   0.840 Checksum for core: 4249075453
   0.841 Checksum of base: 46491745
   1.451 Loading sounds...
   1.469 Info PlayerData.cpp:69: Local player-data.json unavailable
   1.469 Info PlayerData.cpp:72: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1552436950
   1.632 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   1.633 Created atlas bitmap 16384x6216 [none]
   1.633 Created atlas bitmap 16384x688 [decal]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x1104 [low-object]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x656 [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, no-crop, no-scale]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x2176 [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level, no-crop]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x480 [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x456 [not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, no-crop, no-scale]
   1.634 Created atlas bitmap 16384x216 [alpha-mask]
   1.635 Created atlas bitmap 16384x3184 [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   1.635 Created atlas bitmap 16384x384 [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   1.667 Created virtual atlas pages 4096x4096x2
   1.884 Texture processor created. GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
   2.118 Parallel Sprite Loader initialized (threads: 7)
   7.324 Sprites loaded
   7.686 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x1104
   8.032 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x656
   8.413 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x2176
   8.755 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x480
   8.821 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x456
   8.877 Generated mipmaps for atlas of size 16384x384
   8.910 Generated mipmaps for virtual atlas of size 4096x8192
   8.915 Custom inputs active: 6
   8.977 Factorio initialised
  26.333 Loading Level.dat: 997198 bytes.
  26.334 Info Scenario.cpp:147: Map version 0.17.11-0
  26.363 Checksum for script /Users/Sevans/Library/Application Support/factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 1848333929
  44.251 Quitting: user-quit.
  44.251 Info GlobalContext.cpp:678: Waiting for child processes to exit: 
  44.502 Steam API shutdown.
  44.503 Goodbye

[posila]

Thanks for the log.

Interestingly the compression test passes; we have multiple reports of this and they all seem to be on macOS 10.11; I'll see if it is always 10.11.6 and possibly disable compression by default on that version.

Duplicate: 66326