[Pending] Unable to create sprite (3836X2111) probably not enough of v

[Windex]

So, I've been known to get sleepy and go to bed leaving the game running. Since updating to 13.x experimentals if I leave the game overnight I come back to an error dialog that says: "Unable to create sprite (3836X2111) probably not enough of video memory." No hardware changes. Video drivers might be updated.

I see version 0.13.8 is out now. I was thinking of playing and letting the game sit tonight when I'm finished.

Same as the error in the log:

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   0.000 2016-07-10 14:02:56; Factorio 0.13.6 (build 23136, win64, steam)
   0.000 Operating system: Windows 10 
   0.000 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.000 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.000 Write data path: C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.000 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.015 Graphics options: [FullScreen: false] [VSync: true] [UIScale: 200%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 20%] [Screen: 255] [DXT: false]
   0.017 Available display adapters: 1
   0.017  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti {0x05, [0,0], 3840x2160, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.017 Create display on adapter 0. Size 2560x1440 at position [630, 342].
   0.071 Initialised Direct3D:[0] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti; driver: nvd3dumx.dll 10.18.13.6820
   0.073     Video memory size (dedicated video/dedicated system/shared system/available): 6047/0/8163/4082 MB
   0.101 Desktop composition is active.
   0.161 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.171 Loading mod base 0.13.6 (data.lua)
   0.365 Checksum for core: 714099156
   0.365 Checksum for mod base: 1855085279
   0.728 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   0.729 Created atlas bitmap 16384x6368
   0.947 Created atlas bitmap 4096x968
   6.226 Sprites loaded
   6.226 Convert atlas 4096x968 to: trilinear-filtering 
   6.363 Loading sounds...
   7.731 Custom inputs active: 0
   7.762 Factorio initialised
  95.774 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
  95.803 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 134.667 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 134.695 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 166.227 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 166.256 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 182.913 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 182.941 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 198.995 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 199.022 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 209.510 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 209.538 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 271.039 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 271.066 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 341.781 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 341.811 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 368.791 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 368.818 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
 766.634 The scenario does not contain control.lua. Loading freeplay scripts.
 766.664 Info Scenario.cpp:127: Map version 0.13.6-0
 766.746 Checksum for script C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 900459546
54731.090 Error Util.cpp:57: Unable to create sprite (3836X2111) probably not enough of video memory.
54739.252 Steam API shutdown.
54739.253 Goodbye

[TruePikachu]

~15 hours uptime, I presume you maximized the window after it started? Were you in-game or at the title screen?

[posila]

What happens to your PC when you let it sit for few hours? I assume it at least turns off monitor when you let it is over night, is that correct?

[Windex]

>What happens to your PC when you let it sit for few hours? I assume it at least turns off monitor when you let it is over night, is that correct?

Screen goes to sleep, goes to lock screen.

I log back in with pin and back to playing. This might happen a dozen times if I sit down to play during the day, sometimes I'll watch a show for 30 minutes, go mow the lawn, whatever... come back and pick back up.

>~15 hours uptime, I presume you maximized the window after it started? Were you in-game or at the title screen?

Yeah, start game, maximize window is usually my typical deal... usually leave sitting in game.

[fwyrl]

This issue is with the computer going to sleep, I was able to reproduce this just by closing my laptop lid (new laptop - that sends it to sleep).

It looks like this has come up before:

viewtopic.php?f=58&t=25684&p=162061&hilit=sleep#p162061
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=28490&p=180665&hilit=sleep#p180665
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=22998&p=144761&hilit=sleep#p144761
viewtopic.php?t=23182

It's annoying, though one of the devs has mentioned that it's due to their use of DX9. If that's the case, there's not much they can do, without setting development back by several weeks, minimum, since they'd have to switch to a higher version of DX, like DX 11, and changing library versions causes lots of problems.

It'd be nice if it was fixed, but for now, I'm just disabling sleep mode on my PC, and I suggest others do the same.

[posila]

If you need to put your computer to sleep while the game is running, you can try to use OpenGL instead of DirectX.
That can be done by setting launch option in Factorio properties in Steam to

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--force-opengl

or by changing force-opengl in config.ini.

[Windex]

Ah, sounds good! I just came to post because I noticed that it hasn't happened in a while and thought it could be fixed.