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(Ok, sorry, I should have done this properly right away. Unfortunately, I can't delete my old post, so here is a second one.)

PROBLEM: graphics completely broken (screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/mrsbx)

System:
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
RAM: 6GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
Resolution: 1920 x 1200

I had this problem when I first started to play. After reading viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9300 and setting
--video-memory-usage=medium

in the Steam launch options, everything was fine. Today, steam has updated factorio to 0.13.18 and the graphic is broken again.

What I have tried to solve the problem:

1) Reinstall via steam
2) Reset the launch option
3) Tried the other solution suggested in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9300
4) Downloaded 0.13.18 standalone and set the option in config.ini
5) Downloaded 0.12.25 standalone and set the option in config.ini
6) Tried 0.13.18 and 0.12.25 (in steam and standalone) without any options.

Nothing helped, so I don't know what to do...

I'll also attach the log file.

Many thanks for suggestions!

Have you tried to reboot your computer?
If so set --max-texture-size=2048 in launch options like this

The log also indicates that you set not but that value is also saved in the config so that's why it probably worked.

Also, that video card has 256MB of VRAM, 512MB is the minimum requirement for Factorio.

Rebooting is for Windows users... except in this case! After reboot the graphics are back to where they were.

So that problem is solved. However, performance has really gone done in comparison to version 0.12.25. With 0.12.25 I could fully zoom out and run around with no lagging. Now, it is unplayable if fully zoomed out.

I get the point that 512 megabytes is the minimum requirement, but still it worked perfectly fine before the update. Has the graphics code been modified so massively that it would explain the behaviour?

There is also some indication that it is not just the video memory. Before the update, I never had any CPU issues. In fact, I had a plethora or apps open and could play without problems. Now my fans are screaming, the game is lagging, and activity monitor reports that "gameoverlayui" (a steam helper app) is not responding.

So that indicates something else. Should I open a new bug report for that?

Setting video-memory-usage to "low" made the game playable again.