Ok so I got a new charger to see if that would help. Turns out that wasn't the issue so I took it to geek squad, they said it's not a software issue and that either my cpu, motherboard, or both are screwed. Thanks again for the help everyone. You all have made troubleshooting this issue bearable.

It's a HP. But I have a plan to fix this. I found some things online and people have encountered this before on my same laptop so this should work.

Ok, the problem reared it's ugly head again, but I think I finally figured it out. It was actually a thing I thought I could rule out because other things seemed to be running fine. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my charger, which is causing my computer to throttle the cpu when plugged...

This whole time, I've been running it while plugged into the wall. I made sure that wasn't the issue. But when I booted up factorio to try the things you guys told me to try, everything started running fine. I have 60 fps again on both windows and linux. The only thing that changed is that I turned ...

If I'm remembering task manager correctly, both are being used but I dont know if factorio is using both or if the whole system is using both.

I changed that setting, but it didn't work. I'm doing this on windows for sake of making problem solving easier. My graphics driver is up to date. Here's the show usage menu in the attached screenshot. I also accidentally keep leaving things out, this issue isn't restricted to my save, it happens on...

Earlier this year I was able to run Factorio just fine. I had 60 FPS and 60 UPS. I then took a break for a while to focus on school work, but when I came back I was no longer getting that level of performance. My UPS is the same, but I’m now getting on average 17 FPS. Vsync is off, and all my graphi...