[posila] [0.17.69] Repeated update announcements on startup

[Khagan]

I've just returned to playing Factorio after a couple of months gap. Naturally, the first time I started the game after the gap I was informed about a whole bunch of updates (from 0.17.61 to 0.17.69); I clicked 'Confirm' to acknowledge them. That should have been a 'one-off', but now whenever I start the game up, I get the whole update report presented to me again.

[boskid]

Same happens to me when new release happens and then i am trying to crash factorio. If it crashes, next time running factorio will again show me changelog. Maybe related?

If it happen again - when running factorio there is again changelog, could you please upload factorio-previous.log to verify if factorio exited cleanly or if there were some crashes when closing?

[wheybags]

Could you post your player-data.json? (edit and remove the service-token section though)

[Allaizn]

This also happens to me currently, I added the player-data.json as requested

[Khagan]

Same happens to me when new release happens and then i am trying to crash factorio. If it crashes, next time running factorio will again show me changelog. Maybe related?

No, this doesn't have anything to do with crashes. I can't remember the last time Factorio crashed for me.

Could you post your player-data.json? (edit and remove the service-token section though)

Attached, minus identifying data.

[eradicator]

No, this doesn't have anything to do with crashes. I can't remember the last time Factorio crashed for me.

Do you use the [Exit] button in the main menu or Alt+F4 to close the game when you're done playing?

[boskid]

No, this doesn't have anything to do with crashes. I can't remember the last time Factorio crashed for me.

Why not? maybe not full crash but "unable to update player-data.json" would be enough to keep showing changelog and maybe would show in factorio-previous.log something like "unable to write file"? idk

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Allaizn player-data

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  "last-played-version": 
  {
    "game_version": "0.17.69",
    "build_version": 47194,
    "build_mode": "steam",
    "platform": "win64"
  }

Khagan player-data

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  "last-played-version": 
  {
    "game_version": "0.17.69",
    "build_version": 47194,
    "build_mode": "steam",
    "platform": "mac"
  }

[Allaizn]

Do you use the [Exit] button in the main menu or Alt+F4 to close the game when you're done playing?

I tried the [Exit] button, or the X on the top right (I play in windowed mode) and both retained the issue - it's not 100% consistent however. It pops up for a while and then stops again, only to reappear after a while (I'm pretty sure that an update is needed to trigger it again)

[Khagan]

Do you use the [Exit] button in the main menu or Alt+F4 to close the game when you're done playing?

Usually the button, since I would normally quit immediately after saving, and so already be in the menu; I might use Command-Q if I were in a hurry.

[Khagan]

This has gone away for me (at least for now).

The upgrade to 0.17.71 seems to have been correctly registered in the required place, wherever that is (evidently not player-data.json), and Factorio no longer thinks that the last time I played it was still 0.17.60.

[Allaizn]

I cannot confirm that .71 magically fixed this - it still happens for me, so please don't close this report until someone finds out why this happens in the first place.

[posila]

I cannot confirm that .71 magically fixed this - it still happens for me, so please don't close this report until someone finds out why this happens in the first place.

Open folder where you Steam client installed (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam), open userdata subfolder and search for player-data.json in it (it should be in userdata\########\427520\remote\player-data.json) and see what version is saved in that.

[Khagan]

Open folder where you Steam client installed (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam), open userdata subfolder and search for player-data.json in it (it should be in userdata\########\427520\remote\player-data.json) and see what version is saved in that.

Both Allaizn and I posted our player-data.json files earlier in this thread, and they contained the correct version number.

[posila]

Both Allaizn and I posted our player-data.json files earlier in this thread, and they contained the correct version number.

I assumed you both posted the one from %APPDATA%\Factorio, not the one from Steam's local Cloud cache.

[Khagan]

I assumed you both posted the one from %APPDATA%\Factorio, not the one from Steam's local Cloud cache.

Bullseye! I hadn't realised there were two versions (how does Factorio itself choose which to use?). The current player-data file in my Steam cache is correct, but a backup from just before the 0.17.71 update said that the last played version was 0.17.60, instead of the then-correct 0.17.70.

I don't usually have the Steam Cloud turned on anyway, so it surprises me that the cache is relevant.

[Allaizn]

Open folder where you Steam client installed (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam), open userdata subfolder and search for player-data.json in it (it should be in userdata\########\427520\remote\player-data.json) and see what version is saved in that.

I assumed you both posted the one from %APPDATA%\Factorio, not the one from Steam's local Cloud cache.

Yep, bingo here as well. The %appdata% copy has the correct version, while the steam remote one has the old one. I guess the bug is found now, but how do we fix it? E.g. I have cloud saves turned off since long ago (far longer than this issue), so I'm guessing there is some other option?
It also explains nicely why this issue happens so sporadically: once steam finally makes a backup, it'll disappear until the next update

Why is player-data in the remote cache anyway? From what I can see it's at best the command history that you'd want to transfer, but that's really minor (maybe also which tutorials you already completed, but that's also not important at all).

[wheybags]

Ok, it looks like when the game is running through steam, it only uses the steam cloud version of player-data.json.
Since you have steam cloud disabled, this never gets updated. I will look into detecting if you have steam cloud disabled.

[posila]

Please post logs from 0.17.72 if you still have this issue (log of entire run, including Factorio closing).

Ok, it looks like when the game is running through steam, it only uses the steam cloud version of player-data.json.
Since you have steam cloud disabled, this never gets updated. I will look into detecting if you have steam cloud disabled.

This is intentional. Steam's Remote storage works regardless if cloud is enabled or not, the files are saved only to the local cache. When Steam was integrated originally, we would compare timestamps of local version (in %APPDATA%) and cloud version and load the one that seemed newest (and not use remote storage at all if cloud was disabled), but that was causing some issues, so kovarex changed it to use the version from cloud storage always.

[Allaizn]

Please post logs from 0.17.72 if you still have this issue

Not sure if you meant me, but here you go anyway.
I never bothered to read the log just because the update notification came up even though it shouldn't, but it actually contains relevant info:

4.458 Quitting: user-quit.
4.466 Error SteamContext.cpp:175: Failed to write "achievements.dat" to Steam Cloud. Size: 1531, Cloud Storage: Total=999999999, Available=0
4.473 Error SteamContext.cpp:175: Failed to write "player-data.json" to Steam Cloud. Size: 60570, Cloud Storage: Total=999999999, Available=0

Doesn't say why the error happens though. Please ask for anything else you need to get this fixed (here or on Discord)

[Khagan]

As the original reporter of what is currently the sole 'Assigned' bug, should I feel personally responsible for the fact that 1.1 has not yet been released?