The problem occurs when launching Factorio on steam with the "benchmark" commandline option:
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I initally thought that I was simply not clever enough due to some subtle thing with piping, since other people also had problems with this (see the post I linked above).
I got it working with the website version of Factorio with no problem, which puzzled me further, but I soon forgot about it.
I only post this because Rseding confirmed the problem on his stream, where your__name__here showed us a work around.
So here's the workaround for anyone who finds this post by googling:
Step 0: use the website version, if you can (it's way less of a hassle)
Step 1: go into your steam library, right click on Factorio, and open it's "Properties", which should be the lowest option in the context menu.
Step 2: in the "General" tab, click on the "Set Launch Options..."
Step 3: Type in "cmd /c %command% > test.txt" (without the quotation marks)
This will output factorios console output into the "test.txt" file (benchmark results included) which can then be found in the install directory of Factorio.
The problem with this workaround is that the output is forced into another cmd instance, which means that no piping works :/
It may be something that you guys can't fix, because it's steam's fault, but I guess it's at least good to know that this problem exists.
