I'm doing game dev as well and had issues with AMD drivers before. Maybe it is not related at all, maybe it can be a hint: In my case it was OpenGL code and the game crashed during startup. When I tried to narrow it down I noticed the crash happened in a driver thread, so the crashes were async to t...

Did a short test on my Steam Deck, everything seems to work fine now (Audio + Exiting).
(System Update Channel: Stable and Factorio 1.1.65)

As already mentioned in the other thread: If you're using pipewire but have used pulseaudio in the past, try uninstalling pulseaudio-alsa if that is still lying around (and maybe install pipewire-alsa).

I fixed it on my desktop system with arch linux! TLDR: If you use pipewire make sure you uninstall any old "pulseaudio-alsa" package (but maybe install pipewire-alsa). I was using pulseaudio in the past but switched to pipewire some time ago. Package "pulseaudio" was already remo...

It just occurred to me: the title of this bug report should probably be changed. The freeze has nothing to do with changing the audio backend using ingame menus, it's the result of having started the game with the new default backend.

I just tried it on the steam deck as well (unmodified steam deck OS): no audio + freeze when trying to exit (have to force close factorio from the steam menu).

Btw. factorio does show up in pavucontrol (still use it as mixer, even though I have moved from pulse to pipewire some time ago) in the playback tab with an alsa-comment, just like mpv --audio-device=alsa, but factorio doesn't output any sound (but mpv does).

johnLate, do you have pipewire-alsa installed? When updating to 1.1.62 I didn't have it, but before posting on this thread I installed it (and upgraded all other packages and did a reboot). The behavior was the same for {factorio 1.1.62 with a slightly older pipewire and no pipewire-alsa} and {fact...

I also had this issue: When factorio 1.1.62 is launched with default audio backend on Linux (kernel 5.18.14-arch1-1, pipewire 1:0.3.56-1), I have no audio at all and after clicking "Exit" in the main menu, the game freezes while the Exit button is still pressed. 32.091 Quitting: user-quit....

This version was changed to using SDL as the back-end for audio. Please let us know if you have compatibility issues, audio glitches or any audio issues in general compared to the previous version. Thanks. I have no audio at all on arch linux with pipewire. It also hangs on quit and requires double...

I'm holding repair-packs and repair some walls. Logistic science pack research finishes, the tutorial completes, I click "continue", "continue". Game continues, I proceed repairing walls. Map zooms out, zooms in, I proceed repairing walls. With the cursor over a wall, I press Q a...