Version 0.15.17

[posila]

For me, vanilla 0.15.18 on Steam takes 23 seconds to load if it has to create crop cache, or 15 seconds when crop cache already exists.
I suggest to create a thread in bug reports and people who have this abnormally long loading startup time should post their log there.

[Bartimaeus]

It happens to me too ... wasnt so bad before 0.15 ... but I understand that creating a crop-cache takes a while ...
The problem is more apparent now that new version roll out so quickly as ... every time there is a new version it requires recreation of a crop-cache...
first start after update takes me 1m20s .... further starts take only 20-25s

[Martinowitsch]

i deactivated mip-mapping and set video memory on medium
also im playing with graphic and ui as standard and without textur-compression

the last start needed about 4 min, where the loading bar needed from about 60 to 90% about 2:30 min

[Mion]

... takes 23 seconds to load if it has to create crop cache, or 15 seconds when crop cache already exists. ...

Please can you explain in other words what is crop cache? I am not strong in programming and Google (with or without translater) can't help me

[DaveMcW]

It's the file %appdata%/factorio/crop-cache.dat

The game calculates what images it needs to match your graphics settings (which can take a long time), then stores them in that file to make startup faster next time.

[Mion]

It's the file %appdata%/factorio/crop-cache.dat

The game calculates what images it needs to match your graphics settings (which can take a long time), then stores them in that file to make startup faster next time.

Thanks!
Because of my crop-cache.dat filesize 990 KB I see that not images are stored but links to image-files in the game-directory. Am I right?
And this file updates everytime when I change graphic-settings in the game, right?