I've switched back to Direct3D and lowered the texture compression to low to see how much that might help...

If DirectX still crashes, and even the other driver doesn't fix it, you'll have to switch back to OpenGL (remove --force-d3d from launch options) and play the game in windowed mode (as in - not in fullscreen) Sadly windowed doesn't solve the switching issue. Factorio freezes and doesn't update the ...

And now it's crashed with the video removed message!!! I'm really not happy about this. I can't switch in OpenGL and it crashes in Direct3D. It's just sucking the joy out of a great game. At this point I can't see how this is a technical issue and not a bug. If this is a technical issue, what do I n...

posila wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 22, 2019 8:31 am

I assume you switched to OpenGL because you had "The video card has been physically removed from the system" crash.\

Yep. Forcing Direct3D fixes the issue, but hopefully I don't get the crash again???

Is that what you see when you run the updater from Intel's website that posila linked to? Sounds strange because your log states you are using driver version 10.18.14.4264, but on that website it provides version 15.36.37.5074 explicitly listing your CPU: Core i5-4570R Oops, sorry. Misread somethin...

Looks like it's already up to date?

Just noticed now that when I actually have to Alt-Tab twice before I get another application on the screen. But even though I can still see Factorio the cursor will change as if it's on the app window that I've tabbed to. That is, it's like Factorio is still rendering and the mouse events are going ...

posila wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:00 am

Try to disable "Use flip presentation model" in the graphics options.

Just checked and it was not enabled so that's not going to help, but thanks for the suggestion.

EDIT: And for sanity's sake I tried enabling it just to check and still same result...

See attached files...

To reproduce: Alt-tabbing out of Factorio into another running app and then back to Factorio. Expected: Factorio is running and playable. Actual: The display is 'frozen' from the previous app (screen memory is not updated from the previous state of the display) and Factorio is not displaying (but au...