To be honest, I am a big fan of DoT being applied every game tick, which makes it feel much more natural. I do understant that it comes at a perfornance cost, but it's a big "feels good" moment.

Oh no! i9-10980xe and 3950x get released in November

Clicking the shortcut, will grab the first available stack from the inventory.

Wouldn't it be better to grab the last available stack from the inventory? So there is no more than 1 uncomplete stack of items at any given time.

But why it becomes less resource intensive if I zoom out a bit?

post the log, please

I can confirm this.The effect becomes stronger with more turrets visible. I managed to max out my GTX 1060 with an array of 13x13 turrets. Notice how GPU usage is only about 38% when zoomed out at a maximum distance with visible buildings.

what does GPU-Z show when this happens?

MarcusWyckes wrote:uploading then as an opt-in or question on first run or after playing the mission

That wouldn't do much, it needs to be opt-out, just like crash reports.

Also, are you running on buttery or is your laptop plugged in to charger when you do these tests?
See also: https://superuser.com/questions/807037/why-is-my-nvidia-870m-capping-graphics-to-30fps-when-running-on-battery-power
https://steamcommunity.com/app/252950/discussions/0/496880503059248015 ...

Thanks for the reply.

I tried this with charger both plugged in and not and it doesn't change the outcome, since it's not FPS limited, but has strange dips when something complicated is on the screen. I also made sure to test with maximum performance power plan, both in Windows settings and NVCP ...

impetus maximus wrote:if you disable v-sync in game and use an aero theme in widows you will get v-sync.

This is only true for Win7 and windowed / borderless applications. I run it on win10 in fullscreen.

OK, this is not funny anymore.
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0.001 2018-03-09 02:18:52; Factorio 0.16.28 (build 35903, win64, steam)
0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1709)
0.001 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe ...

I restarted my laptop and that seemed to help to get rid of Vsync. However, it seems like I managed to lock it up again in "on" state by turning it on and off. Also, the 30 FPS lock on a 960m is gone for some reason.
Logs:
960m.log
hd530.log
Both GPUs offer not the most pleasant gameplay ...

I've got some weird issues that involve Factorio, i5-6300hq (with HD 530 graphics), GTX 960m (2gb dedicated VRAM) and Vsync.

This is what happens when I look at somewhat populated area:
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Key features:
a. Out of 33.3ms frame cycle, 27.5 is spent on flip[off];
b. Vsync is DISABLED ...

Also, please don't buy laptop to play games :( it's just trouble ...
While this is true for playing stuff like Witcher on ultra with hairworks enabled, Factorio at a glimpse looks like a pretty light game in terms of system requirements, and a lot of people expect it to run well ("well" as in ...

Twinsen wrote:it's not a base game feature.

Yet!

I see the auto crash uploading feature is doing a great job.

All the sperging out over uploading crash logs is less about p r ivacy and more about piracy. Thieves don't like it when their stolen goods phone home.

Aside from that, anyone whining about privacy and sill using chrome/google/facebook on a daily basis is a hypocrite and an idiot.

It is fun to ...

can you tell us which Ryzen CPU is affected or when it is happening (what are players doing)? So it might be tested by players?
Have Ryzen 7 1700X myself on 2 PC ^^
We asked that in the discord chat. the answer was "The ones made by AMD". It might have been a Joke. That or they don't know exactly ...

Funny because I had an issue of generating very small amount of biters no matter which settings I used. Tested on the same map seed - all apeared in the same locations.