Ok so I have solved this issue (Some what). I was running linux mint mate 17.3 witch is old ... Some how there was either broken packages or outdated ... something I am not sure witch but when i upgraded to linux mint mate 18 it everything started working fine ... I am at version 19.1 now and its wo...

ok so maybe gt 630 just isnt strong enough for the new graphics engine ... odd since its a 2d game

Ok I have tried all of the suggestions in https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9300 Upgraded OS to latest with all updates Running the latest Video driver Watched Nvidia-smi (it dosnt show me gpu usage, just off N/A) Memory is around 50% used and everything else that has been suggest...

well I was hoping the debug info would be easy to see so maybe help devs out ... guess not

an observation ... i just zoomed all the way out and ran around and fps stayed at 6.5

well after playing the first tut I got to the point the bitters run you out of the first base and fps dropped to 5-6

started the beginner scenario and fps jumped to 25 came back down to 7.5 then went back up to 15 or so while playing ... much less lagie

17.39 downloaded ... fps started at around 10/60 or so and started dropping consistently till it reached around 3 i switched over to firefox to right this and back to factorio and it went back up to 10/60 ... Like its not releasing resources or something .. The picture of the little man zoomed in is...

ok so i have tried 17.37 and same problem on fresh install
I could not get 17.38 to unpack

Has anyone found a way to fix this yet ?

well I have gotten the driver version up to 390 ... still working on getting 418 to load

Ok so 390 is the latest supported driver for my cards ... anyone have any ideas ?

maybe you could use dropbox to sync the db files ? or another service like that

settings

SC of the drivers in use in attachment +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 384.130 Driver Version: 384.130 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Unc...

well im just not sure why .16 runs fine and .17 dosnt run at all for me

vram is fine 635MiB/1984MiB

no they do not change when i detach second monitor

sorry it tooks so long