Try setting the launch options to "--max-texture-size=4096".
To do so, right click on the game in your library, then select properties , then set launch options .

When i plug in -max-texture-size=4096 the game won't open, otherwise putting in --max-texture-size=4096 didn't do anything. Thanks for ...

Try setting the launch options to "--max-texture-size=4096".
To do so, right click on the game in your library, then select properties , then set launch options .

When i plug in -max-texture-size=4096 the game won't open, otherwise putting in --max-texture-size=4096 didn't do anything. Thanks for ...

No matter what I do it crashes on start up, I've re-dled it 5 times.
Log:
0.000 2016-04-09 09:55:56; Factorio 0.12.29 (Build 17931, mac, steam)
0.000 Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.3
0.000 Program arguments: "/Users/me/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app ...