[2.1.7] Crash forcing wayland: "SDL_Error: wayland not available"

notLily72 · Post by **notLily72** » Tue Jun 23, 2026 9:21 pm

Attempting to set the Preferred video driver option on my computer to wayland does cause Factorio to launch with wayland, and forcing wayland with the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland option crashes the game

notLily72 · Post by **notLily72** » Tue Jun 23, 2026 9:23 pm

My system is running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland.

I have a AMD Ryzen 7 5800x cpu and a NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080.

Post by **raiguard** » Thu Aug 13, 2026 8:30 pm

Something in your environment is preventing the game from detecting the wayland socket. Moving to technical help.

pioruns · Post by **pioruns** » Fri Aug 14, 2026 6:35 am

notLily72 wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2026 9:23 pm My system is running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland.

I have a AMD Ryzen 7 5800x cpu and a NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080.

You are using rolling release distro with frequent updates which can introduce regressions and bugs from time to time. Looks like you just hit one. Report it to Arch developers to fix. Or reinstall your system to normal timed release OS to resolve this painlessly.

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