Game runs but the screen is frozen

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Game runs but the screen is frozen

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I haven't played the game for some time, but a week ago I decided to start a new campaign again and see what has been added with the new updates.
I have updated Factorio through Steam to the latest stable version: 0.14.23

After about a minute of playing the screen freezes for 15-30 seconds while, through the headphones, I can still hear the sounds coming from the machines around me or the player walking. And I can move the game's window around. I think the game is still running in the background but for some reason the graphics doesn't get updated.

I already tried:
- downloading the latest beta version
- lower the graphic settings
- re-dowloading the game
- force the usage of opengl
- reduce texture size
- reduce the memory usage
I restarted the game every time I changed something but nothing of this fixed the problem.

My machine is not that powerful but Factorio has ever worked flawlessly on it. Ah, and btw, I'm not the superuser on my machine so I can't do any modification to the system settings that requires root permissions.

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Re: Game runs but the screen is frozen

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Post the log after a session with the issue, see my signature.

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HUGE discovery:
resizing the window ends the freeze, doesn't matter how: going from a small size to a big size or from a big size to a small size.
Even if I go from fullscreen (but still windowed) to not fullscreen (windowed) the freeze stops.

Maybe is some kind of window manager that's causing the issue...

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Just the same issue
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Re: Game runs but the screen is frozen

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Are you using the kernel modesetting driver? See here: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=21205

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Re: Game runs but the screen is frozen

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I don't know what you're talking about, but I took a look at your post. I tried to do what you did (setting the variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE to 1) through terminal and then launching steam from it. The game run smoothly, even when I tried to set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE to 0.
But if I launch Steam normally (just clicking its icon) and not from the terminal, the issue is still there.

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Re: Game runs but the screen is frozen

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What distribution are you using? If you're on Ubuntu try running

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sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
then restarting your computer.

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Re: Game runs but the screen is frozen

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I am using Linux Mint 18.1. Thank you for your help :D
As soon as I have some free time I will do some research on that package and try removing it

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