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[2.0.15] Game never starts, stuck at 50% loading sprites

Post by swefor »

I'm just installed factorio on my laptop. It's working great on my main PC but now I want it on my laptop for reasons. It is not the fastest but CPU and memory doesn't seem nearly exhausted.

Anywho, the log that follow is what I get when starting with

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factorio.exe --single-thread-loading --gfx-safe-mode --graphics-quality medium
. I read somewhere about somone having problem with parallell sprite loading so I added the single-thread option, safe gfx mode seemed like it might help and medium graphics because slow computer.
The log ends the same way if I start without those options.

Anyone have an idea?

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   0.001 2024-11-17 21:31:00; Factorio 2.0.15 (build 80108, win64, full, space-age)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 11 (build 22631) 
   0.002 Program arguments: "factorio.exe" "--single-thread-loading" "--gfx-safe-mode" "--graphics-quality" "medium" 
   0.002 Config path: C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/config/config.ini
   0.003 Read data path: D:/factorio/data
   0.003 Write data path: C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [51203/487387MB]
   0.003 Binaries path: D:/factorio/bin
   0.053 System info: [CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics, 16 cores, RAM: 5188/15789 MB, page: 6821/21421 MB, virtual: 4269/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.106 Memory info:
   0.106  [0]: Micron Technology 8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1 8192 MB 3200 MHz 1.2 v
   0.107  [1]: Micron Technology 8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1 8192 MB 3200 MHz 1.2 v
   0.131 Display options: [FullScreen: true] [VSync: true] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: true] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
   0.202 Video driver: windows
   0.202 Available displays: 1
   0.203  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Driver {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 64Hz}
   0.270 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: -1; d3dcompiler_47.dll
   0.504 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060; id: 10de-1f15; driver: nvldumdx.dll 31.0.15.1640
   0.506   D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-discard,-,-,-,none
   0.506   [Local Video Memory] Budget: 5212MB, CurrentUsage: 14MB, Reservation: 0/2734MB
   0.511   [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 7244MB, CurrentUsage: 5MB, Reservation: 0/3750MB
   0.512   Tiled resources: Tier 2
   0.513   Unified Memory Architecture: No
   0.514   BGR 565 Supported: Yes
   0.514   MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
   0.515 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.516   Dedicated video memory size 5980 MB
   0.591 Desktop composition is active.
   0.591 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: medium] [Video memory usage: all] [DXT: high-quality]
   0.592                   [Max threads (load/render): 1/8] [Max texture size: 4096] [Tex.Stream.: false] [Rotation quality: normal] [Other: STDCWTL] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
   1.096 [Audio] Driver:wasapi, Device:Default device, Depth:16, Frequency:44100, Channels:2, Interpolation:linear
   1.357 Error SteelSeriesGameSenseWindowsController.cpp:118: Failed to start SteelSeries GameSense. Error when processing coreProps.json file: GameSense address is empty
   1.394 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag expansion-shaders = true
   1.394 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag freezing = true
   1.395 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag quality = true
   1.396 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag rail-bridges = true
   1.399 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag segmented-units = true
   1.399 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag space-travel = true
   1.400 Info ModManager.cpp:434: FeatureFlag spoiling = true
   1.424 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   1.708 Loading mod base 2.0.15 (data.lua)
   3.721 Loading mod elevated-rails 2.0.15 (data.lua)
   4.090 Loading mod quality 2.0.15 (data.lua)
   4.333 Loading mod space-age 2.0.15 (data.lua)
  10.267 Loading mod base 2.0.15 (data-updates.lua)
  10.290 Loading mod quality 2.0.15 (data-updates.lua)
  10.326 Loading mod space-age 2.0.15 (data-updates.lua)
  11.230 Checksum for core: 3833371075
  11.230 Checksum of base: 1259916430
  11.231 Checksum of elevated-rails: 971617432
  11.231 Checksum of quality: 2471328700
  11.232 Checksum of space-age: 2088115374
  11.831 Prototype list checksum: 3872509593
  11.892 Loading sounds...
  25.652 Info PlayerData.cpp:66: Local player-data.json available, timestamp 1731875101
  25.653 Info PlayerData.cpp:73: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
  26.025 Initial atlas bitmap size is 4096
  26.040 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4084) [none]
  26.051 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [none]
  26.064 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.075 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [none]
  26.086 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [none]
  26.096 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.108 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.118 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.136 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4088) [none]
  26.149 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.159 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.166 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4072) [none]
  26.168 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.170 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4032) [linear-magnification]
  26.174 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4068) [linear-magnification]
  26.177 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.181 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4076) [none]
  26.183 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4048) [none]
  26.184 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [none]
  26.184 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1016) [none]
  26.186 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4036) [decal]
  26.186 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4048) [decal]
  26.186 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x992) [decal]
  26.189 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4080) [low-object]
  26.191 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4080) [low-object]
  26.193 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4080) [low-object]
  26.197 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [low-object]
  26.197 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1888) [low-object]
  26.199 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [corpse-decay]
  26.200 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [corpse-decay]
  26.201 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [corpse-decay]
  26.202 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1896) [corpse-decay]
  26.202 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4084) [none]
  26.203 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1720) [none]
  26.203 Created an atlas bitmap (size 904x41) [not-compressed]
  26.204 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3440) [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
  26.208 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4048) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.211 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4064) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.214 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.216 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4080) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.218 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4064) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.219 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4080) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.219 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1872) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.220 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x2496) [terrain-effect-map, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  26.220 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3008) [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
  26.221 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1376) [mipmap]
  26.221 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x1520) [mipmap]
  26.222 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x1616) [mipmap]
  26.222 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x1616) [mipmap]
  26.223 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x1616) [mipmap]
  26.225 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4032) [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
  26.228 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3456) [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
  26.233 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4072) [alpha-mask]
  26.234 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x2808) [alpha-mask]
  26.244 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.251 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.258 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.273 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.280 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.283 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.285 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4092) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.289 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.290 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4088) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.290 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x4096) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.291 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3636) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.291 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1312) [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  26.292 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x496) [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
  26.292 Loading 3D bitmaps.
  26.413 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: NO/NO. 
  26.418 Parallel sprite loader initialized (threads: 2, bitmaps: 8228)
 855.553 Closed during loading.
 856.333 Goodbye
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Re: [2.0.15] Game never starts, stuck at 50% loading sprites

Post by swefor »

I solved it myself.

Not 100% what helped but I think it was updating the driver for the AMD GPU integrated in the CPU. I have a separate nvidia GPU which is used according to the log file but it looks like the AMD update helped. Maybe the sprites are generated/loaded using the onboard graphics?

It would have been great if the error was detected somehow. Probably hard but a timeout on the sprite loading maybe? When it worked, it took 23s to load the sprites so a 5min timeout?
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Re: [2.0.15] Game never starts, stuck at 50% loading sprites

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I recently had a similar issue with the latest version, 2.0.28. Factorio would just get stuck on loading, the cursor would change to the spinning donut, and never resolve. Trying to pull up Resource Monitor would fade out the window and offer to end process. I could only terminate by ending process.

As it turns out, one of my memory sticks was loose. I recently pulled apart my whole PC to clean it and hadn't checked that all the memory registered. I have 2x 8 GB sticks. Looks like 1x 8 GB just wasn't enough to load Factorio. After re-inserting my memory and getting it to register, Factorio fully loaded again on the first try.

I see the current system requirements listed on Steam are 8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended. That 8 GB looks to just not be enough with the overhead from Windows. Even with no other programs active, it wouldn't get past 51% for me.
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Re: [2.0.15] Game never starts, stuck at 50% loading sprites

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I'm getting the same error, although my computer is running an Intel CPU. Haven't solved it yet. Any help would be great!

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   0.000 2025-01-08 01:54:13; Factorio 2.0.28 (build 81088, win64, steam, space-age)
   0.000 Operating system: Windows 11 (build 26100) 
   0.000 Initializing Steam API.
   0.000 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" "--verbose" 
   0.000 Config path: C:/Users/groze/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/config/config.ini
   0.000 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.000 Write data path: C:/Users/groze/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [531757/951011MB]
   0.000 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.008 System info: [CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900HX, 32 cores, RAM: 12508/32452 MB, page: 12854/34500 MB, virtual: 4375/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.026 Memory info:
   0.026  [0]: 80AD000080AD HMCG78AGBSA095N 16384 MB 4800 MHz 1.1 v
   0.026  [1]: 80AD000080AD HMCG78AGBSA095N 16384 MB 4800 MHz 1.1 v
   0.027 Display options: [FullScreen: true] [VSync: true] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: true] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
   0.167 Video driver: windows
   0.167 Available displays: 1
   0.167  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Adapter {0x05, [0,0], 2560x1600, 32bit, 64Hz}
   0.225 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: -1; d3dcompiler_47.dll
   0.226 Verbose GraphicsInterfaceDX11.cpp:267: DXGI 1.5 detected, Allow tearing is supported
   0.227  Adapter [0]: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU {10de-2860} (32.0.15.6636)
   0.228  Adapter [1]: Microsoft Basic Render Driver {1414-8c} (10.0.26100.1882)
   0.229  Adapter [2]: Microsoft Basic Render Driver {1414-8c} (10.0.26100.1882)
   0.476 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU; id: 10de-2860; driver: nvldumdx.dll 32.0.15.6636
   0.476   D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-discard,-,-,-,none
   0.476   [Local Video Memory] Budget: 7180MB, CurrentUsage: 7MB, Reservation: 0/3718MB
   0.476   [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 15458MB, CurrentUsage: 0MB, Reservation: 0/7857MB
   0.476   Tiled resources: Tier 2
   0.476   Unified Memory Architecture: No
   0.476   BGR 565 Supported: Yes
   0.476   MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
   0.477 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.477   Dedicated video memory size 7948 MB
   0.503 Desktop composition is active.
   0.503 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [DXT: high-quality]
   0.503                   [Max threads (load/render): 32/32] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: false] [Rotation quality: normal] [Other: STDCWTl] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
   1.123 [Audio] Driver:wasapi, Device:Default device, Depth:16, Frequency:44100, Channels:2, Interpolation:linear
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag expansion-shaders = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag freezing = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag quality = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag rail-bridges = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag segmented-units = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag space-travel = true
   1.213 Info ModManager.cpp:438: FeatureFlag spoiling = true
   1.213 Verbose PipelineStateObject.cpp:104: Time to load shaders: 0.000035 seconds.
   1.216 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   1.555 Loading mod base 2.0.28 (data.lua)
   1.991 Loading mod elevated-rails 2.0.28 (data.lua)
   2.215 Loading mod quality 2.0.28 (data.lua)
   2.545 Loading mod space-age 2.0.28 (data.lua)
   3.193 Loading mod base 2.0.28 (data-updates.lua)
   3.700 Loading mod quality 2.0.28 (data-updates.lua)
   4.031 Loading mod space-age 2.0.28 (data-updates.lua)
   5.050 Checksum for core: 283742623
   5.050 Checksum of base: 1505520187
   5.050 Checksum of elevated-rails: 3624276517
   5.050 Checksum of quality: 1945933776
   5.050 Checksum of space-age: 507955763
   5.567 Prototype list checksum: 3777526167
   5.998 Verbose PipelineStateObject.cpp:100: Time to load shaders in background: 4.784563 seconds.
   5.998 Verbose ModManager.cpp:637: Time to load mods: 4.78492
   6.032 Loading sounds...
   6.383 Info PlayerData.cpp:68: Local player-data.json unavailable
   6.383 Info PlayerData.cpp:71: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1736326333
   6.386 Post-data load graphics options: [Light occlusion: YES]
   7.088 Crop bitmaps.
   7.090 Parallel sprite loader initialized (threads: 29, bitmaps: 8226)
  14.397 Verbose ParallelSpriteLoader.cpp:145: Sprite loader stats> Worker loaded max size: 128.00MB, Total worker loaded max size: 2986.68MB
  14.750 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
  14.759 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16380) [none]
  14.771 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16384) [none]
  14.789 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16380) [none]
  14.790 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x14456) [none]
  14.790 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x8392) [decal]
  14.794 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16384) [low-object]
  14.794 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1088) [low-object]
  14.794 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x13440) [corpse-decay]
  14.795 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x5596) [none]
  14.795 Created an atlas bitmap (size 1676x79) [not-compressed]
  14.795 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x4208) [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
  14.799 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16352) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  14.799 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x4944) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  14.799 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x3872) [terrain-effect-map, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
  14.800 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3104) [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
  14.800 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x2576) [mipmap]
  14.802 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x1520) [mipmap]
  14.802 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3152) [mipmap]
  14.802 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3152) [mipmap]
  14.802 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3152) [mipmap]
  14.802 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x3808) [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
  14.803 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x6120) [alpha-mask]
  14.818 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16384) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  14.821 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16364) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  14.823 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x7648) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  14.823 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x3952) [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
  14.823 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x496) [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
  14.823 Loading 3D bitmaps.
  14.847 Verbose TextureProcessor.cpp:1128: GPU accelerated compression test: Time 12.033 ms; YCoCg_DXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
  14.847 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
  15.058 Parallel sprite loader initialized (threads: 29, bitmaps: 8226)
 318.806 Verbose ParallelSpriteLoader.cpp:145: Sprite loader stats> Worker loaded max size: 118.30MB, Total worker loaded max size: 1248.22MB
 319.387 Closed during loading.
 319.859 Steam API shutdown.
 319.862 Goodbye
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Re: [2.0.15] Game never starts, stuck at 50% loading sprites

Post by yossarian7 »

Any chance you might also be running out of memory?

Looks like there are some good tips here for configuration and launch options to reduce your graphics settings: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=9300.

Maybe give those a shot and see if the game's able to load?
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