[Mac] Computer crashes on startup

[Duckk]

I just bought Factorio and I really want to enjoy it but I can't because, every time I launch it my computer freezes and I have to restart the my computer is there a fix to this?

[AKWildRide]

Hey bud i posted a fix in the steam page for this game go check it out it might help u im currently trying to help another fellow in the steam page to get the game to work so let me know if u need help in steam

[Duckk]

Hey bud i posted a fix in the steam page for this game go check it out it might help u im currently trying to help another fellow in the steam page to get the game to work so let me know if u need help in steam

could you give me a link to the steam page?

[AKWildRide]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/di ... 292592732/

[Duckk]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/di ... 292592732/

This doesn't help because im running on a mac

[AKWildRide]

cant really help u there then dont know anything about macs

[Rseding91]

Could you please upload the log file (factorio-current.log) and post your system specs?

A total computer freeze sounds a lot like the issues I've experienced when trying to run Factorio on a system that wasn't powerful enough. But, I won't know that until you can provide the above information.

[Duckk]

how do I get the log file?

[daniel34]

how do I get the log file?

You can find the log file in the application directory.

Location of the application directory:
For Windows: %appdata%\Factorio (usually C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Factorio)
For Linux: ~/.factorio
For Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/factorio

[Duckk]

0.033 2016-03-14 21:42:00; Factorio 0.12.26 (Build 17762, mac)
0.034 Operating system: Mac OS X 10.9.5
0.034 Program arguments: "/Users/philomelavestruz/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app"
0.034 Read data path: /Users/philomelavestruz/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/factorio.app/Contents/data
0.034 Write data path: /Users/philomelavestruz/Library/Application Support/factorio
0.034 Binaries path: /Users/philomelavestruz/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common
0.218 Available display adapters: 1
0.218 [0]: resolution 1920x1080px at [0,0]
0.218 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
1.515 Initialised OpenGL:[0] AMD Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine; driver: 2.1 ATI-1.24.38
7.895 Graphics options: [FullScreen: false] [VSync: true] [UIScale: 100%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 20%] [Screen: 255]
10.278 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
10.370 Loading mod base 0.12.26 (data.lua)
18.991 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
19.009 Created atlas bitmap 16384x5511

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

[Rseding91]

Have you tried any of the possible solutions mentioned here? viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9300

[Tepalus]

Helo there

I played the game for about a week and it is very nice to play but in the last days i had much problems with the game. My MacBook Pro shuts down and restart when i'm playing. I have no idea why this happens. I've set the grafics to low, diabled the smoke and the clouds and set the game in generell to a low level of graficuse but it still shuts down my Mac Book...

The tips in the link did not help sadly but i want to play the game because it is absolutely awesome!

Has anyone tips and help for me?

Here are my MacBook stats:
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 288 MB

[Tepalus]

I was trying to fix the problem on my own and now i have a huge tip for every MacBook user or anyone who runs the game on a low-end computer:

- turn out clouds
- turn out smoke
- grafic settings on low (not very low)
- graficcard use to medium or high (not all)
- most important: don't run the game in fullscreen! I have no idea why, but in screenmode it works perfectly fine. You can scale it to the size of your screen and it works very smooth. In fullscreenmode it crashs after some minutes but with screenmode it runs for 1-2 hours without problems

[HanziQ]

Does your graphic card really have 288MB of memory? Factorio requires 512MB.

[Tepalus]

lol! No idea why this number and this kind of informations

-> NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB this i have!

[HanziQ]

lol! No idea why this number and this kind of informations

-> NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB this i have!

Could you send me the log of the crash? It might have something to do with graphics card switching, if that's the case, you could use something like https://gfx.io/ to force it to use the more powerful card, if it's defaulting to the integrated one.