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I keep getting the following error running Ubuntu 23.04 LTS and Factorio on Box64:

1.003 Error Util.cpp:86: Failed to create OpenGL context: Could not create GL context: GLXBadFBConfig

glxinfo reports 'direct rendering: yes'

glmark2 shows the following:

OpenGL Information
GL_VENDOR: Broadcom
GL_Renderer: V3D 7.1
GL_VERSION: 3.1 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1

and properly runs all tests.

The basics that I read seem to indicate I need to update my video drivers, but glxinfo and glmark2 seem to indicate I'm set up just fine. Thoughts? Is there a setting I need to set on Box64 for the Pi5?

AFAIK your OpenGL version is simply too low. I had the same issue on Asahi Linux, until they updated to 3.3.
You can try to fake the version like "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.3 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=430"... Not very likely to work though.

Thanks. I'll look and see what forcing the setting looks like with an understanding that it could be less than ideal.

Even if you do get it working, I wouldn't keep your hopes up: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=110541

Huh, interesting. Should affect single player though, unless I missed something.
Just don't report any issues you encounter to the factorio devs.

Success. Switched to Armbian Plasma (as I'm a fan of the KDE Plasma desktop environment).
Used NicoD's Armbian-gaming script to install box64. ( https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming )
Downloaded the Linux version from this website and ran
box64 factorio from the x64 directory.


Armbian Plasma has a newer set of OpenGL drivers than what I was getting from a current ubuntu download.

It was still on the slow side, so I don't think you'll see any megafactories from the Raspberry Pi 5, but I can play it. At least I think I can. It's sitting on 'Cropping Bitmaps' for a good long while now.