Launching the game takes 40 sec

[GrumpyJoe]

This is some new behaviour that i blame on some Windows update that happened this week, at least i hope its not the hardware
So far i concluded it must be my PC, i think its safe to skip my story and go straight to the log file

I have 2 installations. One Steam 2.0.41 and one standalone 2.0.37
Standalone wasn´t updated for ~ a week and when i started through Steam today, it took a long time to load.
The Steam update was done somewhere in the last 2 days through steam "keep up to date" and "latest experimental"

At the time of first starting the game through Steam, all Py Mods were enabled and I didn´t see a loading screen or even an icon in the windows task bar, it went straight to the menu simulation
I blamed that on loading Py

I then disabled all mods, enabled SA (+rails+Q) and restarted. It took just as long.
Steam said the game is "running", but no sign of that could be found until ~ half a minute later.

Then i blamed it on Steam and/or the latest updates and fired up my standalone version, just to notice it taking just as long

Long story short, 2 different log files are attached. I hope the file name speaks for itself which version is which (i named the 41. version .42; sorry for that)

[Loewchen]

The time is lost gathering display options, so maybe a graphic driver issue.

[GrumpyJoe]

yeah, i figured as much, that 40s step is obvious

strange thing is, i wanted to run a memtest anyway, so i rebooted into my Memtest USB boot stick and ran the test
Then after restart, since windows update didn´t find any new drivers, i ran AMD Adrenaline, which said all drivers are up to date.

I started Factorio through AMD-A (uses the Steam path) and it took 0.613s according to the latest log file
Starting it with Steam now takes 0.230s
Standalone 0.820s


All that was from a cold start this morning, not a wake up. Nothing updated since yesterday
No update today, problem solved