Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:01 am
thank you for your effort to make this possible.
Actually I bought the MBAir not the least to run Factorio smoothly
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Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:58 am
I'm now running Factorio on a MacBook Air M2 24 GB under Ventura 13.0.1 thanks to your adaptation now smoothly in silicon wrapping-
thank you for your effort to make this possible.
Actually I bought the MBAir not the least to run Factorio smoothly
thank you for your effort to make this possible.
Actually I bought the MBAir not the least to run Factorio smoothly
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:11 pm
Is there a chance to get the same for the Surface pro x (arm64)? That would be soooooo nice
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:23 pm
So... Now that Factorio runs on ARM I can have headless Factorio running on an ARM server?
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:27 pm
Glad to see small FFF updates like this! 
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm
Stupid question maybe (Mac newb), can you have multiple standalone installations on mac?
There is a dmg file, which lets you install factorio the usual way, but is the a zip version for mac?
There is a dmg file, which lets you install factorio the usual way, but is the a zip version for mac?
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:53 pm
Now compare these Macs with PC! 
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:56 pm
Why was the porting considered so confidental?
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:00 pm
They didn’t want to accidentally leak any hints about Nintendo. Just seeing ARM probably wouldn’t have but seeing some of the changes made to ARM might.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:02 pm
Ooooh, it seems I misread that part then. Thanks for clarifying.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:05 pm
You can place the factorio.app package contained in the DMG anywhere you want on your computer, and you can give it any name you want; you don't have to place it in the Applications directory, and it doesn't need to be named "factorio.app". You could have multiple Factorio installations by downloading the DMGs for each version you want and copying them into different directories, or by simply giving them different names and putting them in the same directory.jodokus31 wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm Stupid question maybe (Mac newb), can you have multiple standalone installations on mac?
There is a dmg file, which lets you install factorio the usual way, but is the a zip version for mac?
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:10 pm
You're welcome! How well does a MacBook Air run Factorio? I haven't had the opportunity to use one of those yet.brunzenstein wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:58 am I'm now running Factorio on a MacBook Air M2 24 GB under Ventura 13.0.1 thanks to your adaptation now smoothly in silicon wrapping-
thank you for your effort to make this possible.
Actually I bought the MBAir not the least to run Factorio smoothly
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:14 pm
If it's an Apple Silicon Mac server, then yeah!brainfart21 wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:23 pm So... Now that Factorio runs on ARM I can have headless Factorio running on an ARM server?
I don't think we're preparing ARM binaries for Linux or Windows machines right now. Maybe one day it'll happen, but right now, everyone's pretty focused on the expansion.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:20 pm
finally a another Friday Fact... i missed them so much! Thx for sharing this insides with us.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:20 pm
As someone that really really want a factorio server on my rasberry Pi 4 I say:
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:20 pm
StrangePan wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:05 pmYou can place the factorio.app package contained in the DMG anywhere you want on your computer, and you can give it any name you want; you don't have to place it in the Applications directory, and it doesn't need to be named "factorio.app". You could have multiple Factorio installations by downloading the DMGs for each version you want and copying them into different directories, or by simply giving them different names and putting them in the same directory.jodokus31 wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm Stupid question maybe (Mac newb), can you have multiple standalone installations on mac?
There is a dmg file, which lets you install factorio the usual way, but is the a zip version for mac?
In this scenario, the separate instances would still end up using a single, shared user data directory, right? (~/Library/Application Support/factorio, presumably.)
AFAIK there is no easy way to have separate installations (with separate user data directories) that doesn't involve manually replacing the contents of the user data directory when switching version.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:23 pm
You can have separate user data directories, see https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory#macOS for instructions.LordBlackwood wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:20 pm In this scenario, the separate instances would still end up using a single, shared user data directory, right? (~/Library/Application Support/factorio, presumably.)
AFAIK there is no easy way to have separate installations (with separate user data directories) that doesn't involve manually replacing the contents of the user data directory when switching version.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:35 pm
Great, thank you.StrangePan wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:05 pmYou can place the factorio.app package contained in the DMG anywhere you want on your computer, and you can give it any name you want; you don't have to place it in the Applications directory, and it doesn't need to be named "factorio.app". You could have multiple Factorio installations by downloading the DMGs for each version you want and copying them into different directories, or by simply giving them different names and putting them in the same directory.jodokus31 wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm Stupid question maybe (Mac newb), can you have multiple standalone installations on mac?
There is a dmg file, which lets you install factorio the usual way, but is the a zip version for mac?
Thanks, good point.Bilka wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:23 pmYou can have separate user data directories, see https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory#macOS for instructions.LordBlackwood wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:20 pm In this scenario, the separate instances would still end up using a single, shared user data directory, right? (~/Library/Application Support/factorio, presumably.)
AFAIK there is no easy way to have separate installations (with separate user data directories) that doesn't involve manually replacing the contents of the user data directory when switching version.
So, I can create several totally independent installations for each modpack.
Would not want to miss that, esp. for retaining the replay
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 3:23 pm
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Personally, I haven't touched a Mac since the early 90's, and have no desire to do so ever again, but I'm happy for you.
The factory must grow.
Personally, I haven't touched a Mac since the early 90's, and have no desire to do so ever again, but I'm happy for you.
The factory must grow.
Re: Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 4:05 pm
It compares pretty favorably, given the M1's strong single-core performance (though I imagine the latest gen AMD/Intel parts would do quite well, albeit with greater power consumption):
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Lenovo ThinkPad T15 Gen 2, i7-1165G7, Arch Linux (KDE Plasma): Map benchmarked at 124.538 UPS
Ryzen 5900X, Windows 11 x64: Map benchmarked at 150 UPS
2021 MacBook Pro 16", M1 Pro, macOS Ventura: Map benchmarked at 160.57 UPSKind of odd that my M1 Pro ended up getting results closer to the normal M1 or x86_64 results (per the blog post), considering the primary difference between the M1 Pro and M1 Max is the GPU.