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Hi.

When I try to open game through steam I get the error message attached(the blurred part is my home directory.)

I don't know what information is relevant here, so I will try to provide more if asked.

First, your logfile. This is always relevant for such issues.

How do I access the logfile?


EDIT: factorio-current.log contains the following:


0.009 2019-02-26 20:28:56; Factorio 0.17.0 (build 42971, linux64, steam)
0.779 Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu 14.04)
0.779 Program arguments: "/home/[user]/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Factorio/bin/x64/factorio"
0.779 Read data path: /home/[user]/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Factorio/data
0.779 Write data path: /home/[user]/.factorio [1357603/1875274MB]
0.779 Binaries path: /home/[user]/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Factorio/bin
0.857 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2 cores, RAM: 2001 MB]
0.857 Environment: DISPLAY=:0, WAYLAND_DISPLAY=<unset>
0.857 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
1.374 Available displays: 1
1.374 [0]: L568 17" - {[0,0], 1280x1024, SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGB888, 60Hz}
1.544 Initialised OpenGL:[0] GeForce GT 440/PCIe/SSE2; driver: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.135
1.544 [Extensions] s3tc:yes; KHR_debug:NO; ARB_clear_texture:NO, ARB_copy_image:NO
1.544 [Version] 3.3
3.146 Error Util.cpp:75: Failed to compile program '/home/[user]/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/fullscreen-quad.vert, /home/[user]/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/mipmap-gen-rygDXT.frag'.
Fragment info
-------------
0(102) : warning C7050: "index" might be used before being initialized
0(16) : warning C7050: "fragColor.zw" might be used before being initialized
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0116"
0(168) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP68-0118"
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0120"
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0141"
0(168) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP68-0143"
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0145"
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0147"
0(168) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP68-0149"
0(163) : error C5041: cannot locate suitable resource to bind parameter "@TMP67-0151"

23.848 Steam API shutdown.
24.127 Goodbye


Note that I have replaced username with [user], since it is my real name.

Try to check if there is a driver update for your GPU.
It seems that this GPU should work with upgraded game engine but it fails to compile shader for some reason.

Thanks, I updated the drivers and now I have a different error message. I'm going to count that as a success and create a separate topic for the new error.

Does this mean my problem wasn't actually a bug? If so, what should I do with this topic?

windows
same error on start

vjbone wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:23 am

windows
same error on start

Hi, on Windows 7, try to install this update: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.co ... =KB4019990 (it installs d3dcompiler_47.dll)
The game should be able to use DirectX renderer after that.

On Linux, you can try to update the graphics driver; I will make a workaround

Thansk for the report.
It's not extactly bug in the game, but for 0.17.10 I changed the code so if non-essential shaders fail to compile, the game can still run.