Hi there!

I landed on an error with the Carbon mod and made a bug report with more details on it on github:
https://github.com/brevven/carbon/issues/5

I wasn't sure how often you check the github page so just to be sure I report here as well

Grats on the release. Bought the game early-2014, got untold amount of hours in it before steam launch plus additional 5300 hours on steam. Enjoyed every second of it. It is definitely one of the greatest autism s(t)imulators out there :) I'm curious, how many builds have been released publicly of t...

But that's what the devs are claiming. That the memory bandwidth simply isn't there to make multiple threads useful. And this pretty clearly proves them wrong. It seems to be more a problem with latency. That's where threads and hyper threads would really help. Don't think they ever said that. I do...

Thanks indeed. I wish the game would somehow track the time I play it, I'm quite likely nearing or over 1000h already :) I've been massively disappointed in vast majority of AAA titles released in several years but Factorio has been THE timesink for me for months now. If you connect it to Steam, st...

So, while DirectX probably has better performance when doing hardware rendering, it appears that OpenGL has the edge in software rendering. Intel integrated GPUs are not quite the same as software rendering. In the CPUs that contain a GPU, the GPU part tends to take up more space than the CPU part ...

Not sure if I should post it here or in general factorio bugreports but on our server, we occasionally get desyncs when I open up the upgrade planner config. Interestingly it looks like other people can use it just fine but something like one time in 4-5, when I do it people get desynced. Usually I ...

Is it, really? Most of the reports on it I've heard so far have said it's next to impossible to fix with patches and CPUs have to be changed on hardware level to get rid of it. No. Meltdown is an Intel specific problem which has a fix I said pretty much exactly that. I was talking about if there is...

m44v wrote: and the fix is more trivial.

Is it, really? Most of the reports on it I've heard so far have said it's next to impossible to fix with patches and CPUs have to be changed on hardware level to get rid of it.

Wouldn't it be possible to prevent speculative execution for syscall instructions (and similar)? From what I understand, CPU itself has no clue if an instruction is called by kernel or some other piece of code so it has to be controlled on the OS-side. If I understood the patches made to fix Meltdo...

there are two different exploits, meltdown and spectre. First is the one that seems to only affect intel stuff and can be "fixed" with a kernel patch. The other one exists on pretty much all CPUs that have speculative execution so anything from amd-intel in past 10y+ and a few newer arm th...

How hard would it be to make it so that ingredient slots are always filled first instead of fuel ones? That would be a (seemingly) trivial change that'd make the whole thing consistent. But then what happens when you're trying to smelt iron? If it put the fuel in the ingredient slot first, then eve...

I'd almost go as far as saying there should never be a furnace recipe that takes fuel items because it's unspecified if the item should go in the fuel slot(s) or the input slot(s). How hard would it be to make it so that ingredient slots are always filled first instead of fuel ones? That would be a...

Furnaces will always try to put anything with a fuel value into the fuel slot first. Sure but the issue is that on one side of the belt, the fuel slot gets filled with a whole stack of fuel before anything is added to the ingredient slot while on the other side, only as much is added as in any norm...

TL;DR - the order that furnace ingredient/fuel slot gets filled depends on what side fuel is on that belt relative to the furnace and when on "wrong" side, will first put an entire stack of that ingredient to fuel slot before starting to add them to ingredient slots. When the furnace is on...

Tekky wrote:Ok, now that 0.16 has finally been released, I am no longer impatient.

Now it's time to get impatient with mod updates

102 zoomed out max and 110 default zoom (only done the game speed command) map view dropping as low as 70 UPS That's quite likely due to having to blend together a metric ton of tree and shadow sprites and not so much about CPU limitations. I wonder how much overdraw factorio does when rendering a ...

"Improved game startup time when a sufficiently powerful computer is detected."

What does this mean, exactly?

evopwr wrote:oh no!! I'm waiting for another games massive release in 2 days. Now I have to make decisions! argh!!!
(seriously, thanks tho guys, I'm super excited!!!)

I'm curious, what is that other game?

Well, not build the train at all, obviously. Remember the artillery train should feel like an upgrade not an expensive mistake ;) yes, using the train wrong will be a death sentence if one is unprepared. The devs should definitely try to somehow communicate to the player what does using the train c...

Awesome news, as usually. I agree with people who said the artillery should have much slower firing rate. I also hope that the "agro range" of the train is big. Perhaps even bigger than the shooting range of the train. With that, the train wouldn't be quite the "i win" option som...