[16.16] RESOLVED

[wzzl]

Well, I figured it out. It was the sprite resolution setting. My laptop can handle medium but not high. Which it says in game (I only have 2GB VRAM). However the problem was I could handle the highest settings before v16 and the settings were not automatically reset, leading to the crashes. Consequently I could never access the ingame settings. The solutions that I tried from viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9300 did not work because they did not change this setting. I thought the setting "graphics-quality=low" changed this but apparantly it did not. I managed to start factorio with "--gfx-safe-mode" in the steam settings, which by the way, I have no idea what it does.




Original message:
Title: Crash on startup, loading at 40%

Dear developer or forum member, I have not had this problem in >1000 hours playing (thank you for this game).

When starting factorio though Steam it stops at 40% and crashes after some time (and also crashes my laptop, but I think that's an unrelated laptop issue).

I have this problem since updating to version 16. I thought it might be an issue of the 16.16 experimental version, so I went back to 16.15. And while it worked the first time I started up factorio, subsequent startups (after closing the application) did not work. Same when I went back to 16.16 again: starting up factorio via steam worked once, but on subsequent times it crashes.

Things I've tried:

-Sollutions from this topic: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9300 I've tried every change to the config file described.
-Updating drivers


I've got a laptop with an intel i7 2.6 GH; 8 GB RAM; and Nvidea Geforce GTX 960M graphics card



Log:


0.004 2018-01-21 20:26:26; Factorio 0.16.16 (build 34924, win64, steam)
0.004 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1709)
0.005 Program arguments: "D:\Software\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" "--force-opengl"
0.005 Read data path: D:/Software/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
0.005 Write data path: C:/Users/Wessel/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [9230/113330MB]
0.005 Binaries path: D:/Software/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
0.032 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 8109MB]
0.088 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: system (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
0.092 Available display adapters: 1
0.092 [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
0.092 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
1.891 Initialised OpenGL:[0] GeForce GTX 960M/PCIe/SSE2; driver: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 382.05
1.892 Video memory size (dedicated/total available/current available): 2048/2048/2005 MB
1.996 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
1.997 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=8132
1.997 Desktop composition is active.
1.997 Graphics settings preset: high
1.998 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: low] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 100%] [DXT: false] [Shader: 1]
1.998 [Parallel sprite loading: 1] [Max texture size: 0/8192] [Bmp cache: 0] [Sprite slicing: 1] [Low quality rotation: 0]
3.830 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
3.982 Loading mod base 0.16.16 (data.lua)
5.357 Loading mod base 0.16.16 (data-updates.lua)
5.589 Checksum for core: 2242385247
5.589 Checksum of base: 354110265
6.057 Loading sounds...
11.935 Info PlayerData.cpp:67: Local player-data.json unavailable
11.935 Info PlayerData.cpp:70: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1516452041
12.304 Loaded shader file D:/Software/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/game.glsl
12.418 Loaded shader file D:/Software/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/zoom-to-world.glsl
12.438 Loaded shader file D:/Software/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/alpha-mask.glsl
12.475 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
12.478 Created atlas bitmap 16384x3053 [none]
12.562 Created atlas bitmap 16384x816 [shadow]
12.576 Created atlas bitmap 16384x243 [decal]
12.583 Created atlas bitmap 8192x460 [mipmap]
12.592 Created atlas bitmap 8192x800 [mipmap, smoke]
12.613 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2500 [linear-minification, mipmap, terrain]
12.636 Created atlas bitmap 8192x1036 [no-crop, trilinear-filtering, icon, light]
12.638 Created atlas bitmap 8192x238 [alpha-mask]