I'm getting Tesla wireless transmission vibes. Maybe the lightning catchers act more like a big substation powering structures around it. No power poles needed here.

Doh! It was Mesa interfering. I am indeed using the nvidia driver and not nouveau. I found that mesa-libgl was installed. I replaced that with nvidia-libgl and factorio is performing excellent. No matter what I do I cant dip below 60FPS now. Cpu is only at 4% usage while playing the game and the ...

# factorio
0.000 2015-09-02 18:48:26; Factorio 0.12.6 (Build 16640, linux64)
0.000 Operating system: Linux
0.000 Program arguments: "factorio"
0.000 Read data path: /usr/share/factorio
0.000 Write data path: /home/jason/.factorio
0.000 Binaries path: /home
0.168 Initialised OpenGL: Gallium 0 ...

Greetings,
I have an issue with poor performance on my high-end workstation. Its specs are:
i7-4790K, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 960 2GB (dual head @ 1920x1080)

I am getting 25FPS on a map, and viewing the Nvidia card information the GPU is virtually unused.

I have a mediocre laptop with specs:
i3-2357 ...