[0.16.9] Background Image not found & Slow load times

SecJes · Post by **SecJes** » Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:15 am

So recently I started using my desktop PC to play Factorio, and to say the lease it has been excruciating. THe basis of whats happening is the game will acheive a load time of near 20-30 mins to then finally announce that it is not able to find the background image file for the game. There has been times where the game has finally loaded after some of the troubleshooting mentioned below, but these are still followed by extensive load times.

Spec:
AMD FX 4300 quad core
Nvidia GTX 960
Mechanical hard drive (No issues in read or write times)

The things I've tried:
Reinstallation (More than once)
Verify game files (More than once)
Deletion of the sprite cache (More than once, Worked in conjunction with -force--opengl)
Use of --force-opengl (which did occur in factorio loading completely, but it still took a 40 minute load time)
Updated all graphics drivers (no Change)
Shut down antivirus as suggested in another post
restarted pc etc

I have no current mods installed.

factorio-current:

Code: Select all

  0.001 2017-12-30 16:29:21; Factorio 0.16.9 (build 34692, win64, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1703) 
   0.002 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.002 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.002 Write data path: C:/Users/Tyler Burnett/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [140491/476135MB]
   0.002 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.185 System info: [CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor            , 4 cores, RAM: 4053MB]
   0.316 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: system (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
   0.325 Available display adapters: 1
   0.325  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.325 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   1.752 Initialised Direct3D:[0] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960; driver: nvldumdx.dll 23.21.13.8871
   1.752 D3DFMT_A8 is not supported format for surfaces.
   1.752 D3DFMT_L8 is not supported format for surfaces.
   1.758   Video memory size (dedicated video/dedicated system/shared system/available): 2016/0/2026/4035 MB
   1.860 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   1.861 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=4000
   1.861 Device reset internal.
   1.864 Desktop composition is active.
   1.864 Graphics settings preset: medium
   1.865 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 100%] [DXT: false] [Shader: 1]
   1.865                   [Parallel sprite loading: 1] [Max texture size: 0/8192] [Bmp cache: 0] [Sprite slicing: 1] [Low quality rotation: 0]
   3.925 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   4.025 Loading mod base 0.16.9 (data.lua)
   6.012 Loading mod base 0.16.9 (data-updates.lua)
   6.114 Checksum for core: 111085053
   6.114 Checksum of base: 803823609
   6.645 Loading sounds...
  18.682 Info PlayerData.cpp:67: Local player-data.json unavailable
  18.682 Info PlayerData.cpp:70: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1514543582
  19.430 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/game.cso
  19.482 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/zoom-to-world.cso
  19.488 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/alpha-mask.cso
  19.488 Crop bitmaps.
 106.320 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
 106.377 Created atlas bitmap 16384x16368 [none]
 107.575 Created atlas bitmap 16384x4257 [none]
 107.832 Created atlas bitmap 16384x9563 [shadow]
 109.184 Created atlas bitmap 16384x2104 [decal]
 109.568 Created atlas bitmap 8192x5580 [mipmap]
 109.967 Created atlas bitmap 8192x800 [mipmap, smoke]
 110.968 Created atlas bitmap 8192x8168 [linear-minification, mipmap, terrain]
 113.832 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2068 [no-crop, trilinear-filtering, icon, light]
 113.933 Created atlas bitmap 8192x924 [alpha-mask]
 391.778 Sprites loaded
 391.778 Convert atlas 8192x5580 to: mipmap 
 392.193 Convert atlas 8192x800 to: mipmap 
 392.254 Convert atlas 8192x8168 to: min-linear 
 392.871 Convert atlas 8192x2068 to: trilinear-filtering 
 393.027 Convert atlas 8192x924 to: alpha-mask
 753.199 Custom inputs active: 0
 754.463 d3d_create_textures: Unable to create video texture (no render-to-texture).

 754.859 Error Util.cpp:49: Sprite "C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/background-image.jpg" couldn't be loaded
 874.278 DSound: Stopping voice
 874.278 DSound: Joining thread
 874.301 DSound: Exit _dsound_update; tid=4000
 874.301 DSound: Waiting for voice to stop ... signaled
 874.302 DSound: Joined thread
 874.302 DSound: Destroying thread
 874.302 DSound: Thread destroyed
 874.302 DSound: Releasing buffer
 874.302 DSound: Voice stopped
 874.302 DSound: Deallocating voice
 874.302 DSound: Deallocated voice
 876.605 Steam API shutdown.
 877.104 Goodbye

factorio-previous

Code: Select all

 0.035 2017-12-30 11:24:40; Factorio 0.16.9 (build 34692, win64, steam)
   0.035 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1703) 
   0.035 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" "--force-opengl" 
   0.036 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.036 Write data path: C:/Users/Tyler Burnett/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [139424/476135MB]
   0.036 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.055 System info: [CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor            , 4 cores, RAM: 4053MB]
   0.070 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: system (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
   0.072 Available display adapters: 1
   0.072  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.072 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   2.518 Initialised OpenGL:[0] GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2; driver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 388.71
   2.519   Video memory size (dedicated/total available/current available): 2048/2048/1865 MB
   2.575 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   2.576 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=2864
   2.576 Desktop composition is active.
   2.576 Graphics settings preset: medium
   2.577 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 100%] [DXT: false] [Shader: 1]
   2.577                   [Parallel sprite loading: 1] [Max texture size: 0/8192] [Bmp cache: 0] [Sprite slicing: 1] [Low quality rotation: 0]
   2.941 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   3.027 Loading mod base 0.16.9 (data.lua)
   5.562 Loading mod base 0.16.9 (data-updates.lua)
   5.708 Checksum for core: 111085053
   5.708 Checksum of base: 803823609
   6.017 Loading sounds...
  14.447 Info PlayerData.cpp:67: Local player-data.json unavailable
  14.447 Info PlayerData.cpp:70: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1514543582
  14.906 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/game.glsl
  15.194 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/zoom-to-world.glsl
  15.264 Loaded shader file C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/alpha-mask.glsl
  15.265 Crop bitmaps.
 107.973 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
 108.239 Created atlas bitmap 16384x16368 [none]
 108.371 Created atlas bitmap 16384x4257 [none]
 108.744 Created atlas bitmap 16384x9563 [shadow]
 109.279 Created atlas bitmap 16384x2104 [decal]
 109.310 Created atlas bitmap 8192x5580 [mipmap]
 109.423 Created atlas bitmap 8192x800 [mipmap, smoke]
 111.014 Created atlas bitmap 8192x8168 [linear-minification, mipmap, terrain]
 111.202 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2068 [no-crop, trilinear-filtering, icon, light]
 111.328 Created atlas bitmap 8192x924 [alpha-mask]
 297.437 Sprites loaded
 297.437 Convert atlas 8192x5580 to: mipmap 
 301.274 Convert atlas 8192x800 to: mipmap 
 301.471 Convert atlas 8192x8168 to: min-linear 
 302.759 Convert atlas 8192x2068 to: trilinear-filtering

Zavian · Post by **Zavian** » Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:46 am

Try turning your sprite resolution down to normal, and perhaps experiment with lowering other graphics options. I think your graphics card is running out of ram, and trying to use system memory, which is also fairly limited. I think you now need more than 2GB of dedicated Vram to run hi-res sprites with good performance in 0.16. Factorio loads in less than 30 seconds here, on my 7 year old system, but I use normal sprite resolution.

SecJes · Post by **SecJes** » Sat Dec 30, 2017 8:04 am

Yes, there was a dramatic increase in load times from the deletion of the Factorio config file which in turn must've reset the graphics setting back to their normal state. Sadly I'm not aware of what option I used to trigger such extreme load times but I'm simply not going to push my luck and leave them untouched now.

Thank you.

Factorio Forums

[0.16.9] Background Image not found & Slow load times

[0.16.9] Background Image not found & Slow load times

Re: [0.16.7] Background Image not found & Slow load times

Re: [0.16.9] Background Image not found & Slow load times