[2.0.8] "Space Age" title screen animation frozen

[TijsP]

When booting up the game (installed via the factorio website), the initial title screen with the text "factorio", "Space Age" and the loading bar has an animation playing behind the letters of "Space Age". Whenever the loading bar isn't making progress, this animation is frozen. I'd expect this animation to keep playing even when the loading bar is frozen: not only does it look nicer than a often times stuttering animation, it would also serve as proof that the game is not, in fact, frozen, but just working on something without this being reflected by the loading bar

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
We are aware of this flaw, but unfortunatelly, for historical reasons, and due to it being complicated to use single OpenGL context from multiple threads (and possibly D3D9 was not thread safe too), the engine is designed to load graphics on the main rendering thread. So it's either loading game data or rendering ... and again, unfortunattely, loading game data is not architected to be able to invoke render of splash screen often enough for the animation to be smooth. It's solvable, but it seems like big architectural change which is beyond scope of a bug report (you might as well report as a bug the game is not 3D )

[TijsP]

Hahaha fair enough! I figured it was something along those lines, but I didn't expect it to be that involved. Well, I guess there's always the option of simply not loading game data... xD