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Sometimes, but not always, I get an error (see screenshot) when starting Factorio.

I have updated drivers. While I understand that Factorio uses a lot of gfx mem, are there any tools that can help figure out why I can launch it sometimes, but not others - ie ways of finding out where my gfx memory is being used? Sometimes, (but again not always) closing my browser helps.

How much memory does your GPU have and can you post a log file?

Graphical problems - READ BEFORE POSTING
For solution 2, try setting force-opengl in the config.ini (in %appdata%\Factorio\config) to false.

GPU-Z (https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/) can tell you how much of your graphics memory is currently used, but I don't know of any application that can tell which process is responsible for the memory usage.

Thanks for the reply and info.

Looks like I have 320 MB.

Usage goes from 182MB to 226MB when I try to launch Factorio.

When I switch to force-opengl=false, I get a different error. I've added a screenshot for that, and error logs for when both configs crash.

The sprite error also indicates lack of graphics memory, which doesn't surprise me as Factorio has a minimal requirement of 512 MB video ram. If you're using mods they also use some extra graphics memory.

You can try setting graphics-quality to low (or very-low) and video-memory-usage to medium or low in the config.ini if the problem occurs too often.

Other than that, the only solution is to replace your 9 year old GeForce 8800 GTS

daniel34 wrote:The sprite error also indicates lack of graphics memory, which doesn't surprise me as Factorio has a minimal requirement of 512 MB video ram. If you're using mods they also use some extra graphics memory.

You can try setting graphics-quality to low (or very-low) and video-memory-usage to medium or low in the config.ini if the problem occurs too often.

Other than that, the only solution is to replace your 9 year old GeForce 8800 GTS

Replace a 9 year old graphics card?! And I was so sure it wasn't a day over 7.

So thank you for those options - I managed to drop the video-memory-usage to low, and that did the trick. I think the mods probably impacted the memory.

Cheers, ~tetryon