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Hi all,
Recently i switched over to an Nvidia gpu (4060) and began to run into issues with factorio. After long while of looking through logs and journalctl i managed to figure out that it was vram memory overflow issue, that was proved by the game no longer crashing after setting video memory usage to high instead of maximum, a week has went by and not a single crash, until today... a complete random crash that just booted me from the game and spat out an error log (attached it at the bottom along side with the save file of my world). Journalctl seems to indicate that it's still some kind of GPU issue but further than that im clueless (attached what i found)

I am bewildered by these crashes and no longer sure what causes them. Hence this post, any help will be appreciated.

The plot thickens, went into the rest settings and tried forcing opengl
Getting vram error, posting journalctl + logs

Driver error like this, well... indicate problem with the driver, not the game. Since Factorio is proven to work fine on Nvidia cards under Linux, my suggestion is this:

1. Replace Archlinux rolling distro with fixed release distro, to increase stability and reduce number of bugs you are exposed to in daily use.
2. Replace Nvidia driver with previous versions if possible.
3. Replace Nvidia card with AMD card if you are fed up.

Well the issue is that factorio is the only game im actually having issues with when it comes to any programs.

As for changing driver version, i've tried everything that could work with 4060 my current gpu, still getting the same issue

Zer0Sk1ll wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 11:42 am Well the issue is that factorio is the only game im actually having issues with when it comes to any programs.

The problem is likely related to your GPU driver rather than Factorio itself. dmesg output you provided shows kernel errors tied to the graphics driver, which indicates a system-level issue. Those errors are not caused by the game, and it’s possible that running the game simply exposes an existing driver problem rather than creating it.

You may want to consider switching to a more stable distribution. Rolling-release systems can introduce driver or kernel issues that are less common on fixed-release distributions.

For comparison, I run the game on Fedora Linux and have not experienced any crashes or bugs since I purchased the game. But I run it on Radeon, not Nvidia product - not shooting myself in the foot with this one.