I installed an Ubuntu 22.04 distrobox and ran the game through it, but I am still unable to reproduce the issue. At this point, I think the best option is to update your distribution.

"Stable" distros are not great for desktop usage due to problems like this.


Just installed 24.04. I can now ...

Would it be possible for you to update your graphics drivers? You both appear to be on mesa 22.3.0, but my fresh debian distrobox has 22.3.6 and the game starts correctly.


I'm not sure that's easily possible without doing a whole distro upgrade.

The Factorio log doesn't show that I'm on Ubuntu ...

Hopefully useful, running apt list *vulkan* gives me this:

libvulkan-dev/jammy 1.3.204.1-2 amd64
libvulkan-dev/jammy 1.3.204.1-2 i386
libvulkan-volk-dev/jammy,jammy 1.2.198-1 all
libvulkan1/jammy,now 1.3.204.1-2 amd64 [installed]
libvulkan1/jammy,now 1.3.204.1-2 i386 [installed]
mesa-vulkan ...

raiguard wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:51 pm Do you have the Vulkan libraries installed on your system? I'm curious if this is a flaw in the way SDL handles the absence of Vulkan.

I might have pulled them in at some point, I'm not sure. How should I check?

Hello, after the latest update, Factorio crashes when I try to start it up. I see the black window pop up, but the game does not reach the menu.

What did you do?

I launched Factorio via Steam.

What happened?

Steam's "Starting Game" window popped up for maybe a second, then I saw the black ...

Having rummaged around the forums a bit, I've found this thread which is almost certainly a bug report that duplicates my suggestion: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=182&t=117363&p=624953&hilit=alert+quality#p624953

It's currently in "Assigned" status - does this mean I needn't worry ...

TL;DR
Alert icons can have qualities, from Common to Legendary. When a programmable speaker shows an alert, the quality information is lost, and only the icon is shown. I think the quality should also be shown

What?

I can configure an alert on a speaker with a quality, like this Legendary 5 ...