Found out what the issue was. I had a file in profile.d that set some environment variables.

Using these in combination will ruin the performance for me:
__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1
__GL_YIELD="USLEEP"

prg wrote:Looks all happy. That's as user? At least it's not a permission thing then.

Yep, it is.

open("/dev/nvidiactl", O_RDWR) = 9
open("/dev/nvidia0", O_RDWR) = 10
open("/dev/nvidia0", O_RDWR) = 11

As I mentioned previously, I do plenty of gaming without issues, no sudo. I'll do some research and see what I can figure out.

I tried running it with sudo. Turns out the game works perfectly if I do. This is not a good solution though. Why would it require root privileges?

http://i.imgur.com/gfqvXZS.jpg


0.000 2015-11-18 16:16:42; Factorio 0.12.17 (Build 17307, linux64)
0.000 Operating system: Linux
0.000 Program ...

Having the minimap enabled causes huge slowdowns making the game near unplayable. The only setting changed in the screenshots below is the "show minimap" checkbox.

With minimap: http://i.imgur.com/Ds1l3Fv.jpg
Without minimap: http://i.imgur.com/WliNT3z.jpg

Running Arch Linux with i3wm. i7 2600k ...