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Using 15.1 on Steam with Windows 10.
if I choose "high sprite resolution", then certain entities do not appear: transport belts, steam engines, electric pump, burner miner, stone furnace do not show up.
What it looks like on normal resolution: Same build on high resolution:

Post the log, see FAQ.

Should I post "cannot find the log file" as a separate bug?

According to the wiki, the Factorio folder is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio

I have this folder, but there are no log files in it:

Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio

04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> .
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> ..
05/14/2016 01:55 PM <DIR> bin
05/14/2016 01:55 PM 999 config-path.cfg
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> data
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> doc-html
1 File(s) 999 bytes
5 Dir(s) 45,434,249,216 bytes free

None of the subdirectories have logs in them either.

Aervanath wrote:Should I post "cannot find the log file" as a separate bug?

According to the wiki, the Factorio folder is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio

I have this folder, but there are no log files in it:

Directory of c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio

04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> .
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> ..
05/14/2016 01:55 PM <DIR> bin
05/14/2016 01:55 PM 999 config-path.cfg
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> data
04/26/2017 07:52 PM <DIR> doc-html
1 File(s) 999 bytes
5 Dir(s) 45,434,249,216 bytes free

None of the subdirectories have logs in them either.

You didn't read the FAQ did you? It explicitly says the log file will be in one of these locations: https://wiki.factorio.com/Application_directory

I did read the FAQ.
Please don't condescend.

The wiki says that for Windows the log files should be in one of the following two locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio
C:\Program Files\Factorio

On my PC the 2nd one doesn't exist, and there's no log file in the first one.

So if it is not in either of the two locations that the FAQ says it should be...where is it?

Aervanath wrote:So if it is not in either of the two locations that the FAQ says it should be...where is it?

Log files are in %appdata%\Factorio.

The wiki says

Factorio keeps log files in the Application Directory, that is next to the saves and mods directories.

on https://wiki.factorio.com/Log_File

Now on application directory it mentions the location of the mod and saves directory as

The user data directory is where personal files are stored, such as world saves. Search your computer for this directory, or type it into your file manager address bar.

Locations

Windows:

%appdata%\Factorio

I did not realize that " %appdata%\Factorio" is a HIDDEN FOLDER. (Thank you to my roommate for mentioning this.)

Aervanath wrote:I did read the FAQ.
Please don't condescend.

Sorry, that wasn't my intention.

Rseding91 wrote:

Aervanath wrote:I did read the FAQ.
Please don't condescend.

Sorry, that wasn't my intention.

We're cool.
Let me know if you need other logs or the save file, now that I know where they are.

Hi, thanks for the log.
It says the game runs on Intel HD Graphics 4600. Do you have laptop with switchable graphics? If you do, you should open nVidia or AMD control center and set it to force using dedicated graphics card for Factorio.
If you don't have nVidia/AMD graphics card Intel HD Graphics 4600 is not suitable to run game on high sprite quality.

posila wrote:Hi, thanks for the log.
It says the game runs on Intel HD Graphics 4600. Do you have laptop with switchable graphics? If you do, you should open nVidia or AMD control center and set it to force using dedicated graphics card for Factorio.
If you don't have nVidia/AMD graphics card Intel HD Graphics 4600 is not suitable to run game on high sprite quality.

I'm not sure what "switchable graphics" means.
I guess it means an alternative graphics​ card, which I don't have.

What is it about the Intel card that makes it unsuitable?
I don't want to go get a new card unless I know exactly what I need.
I really want the high res graphics!

Aervanath wrote:
I'm not sure what "switchable graphics" means.
I guess it means an alternative graphics​ card, which I don't have.

What is it about the Intel card that makes it unsuitable?
I don't want to go get a new card unless I know exactly what I need.
I really want the high res graphics!

It is a small graphics processor integrated in your main processor. It is significantly less powerful than most dedicated graphic cards and is sharing the (relatively slow) system memory with the main processor.

Edit: Just to make sure, you are certain that you do not have any dedicated graphics card in your system?

Loewchen wrote: Just to make sure, you are certain that you do not have any dedicated graphics card in your system?

Not that I can find:
Device Manager -> Display Adapters only displays the Intel HD Graphics 4600 option

I think the problem is that this graphics card has a "dedicated vram" of only 128mb.
However, it has available vram of over 2gb, since it can borrow from the main ram.

I found a way for it to allocate itself 576mb of dedicated video RAM, but that seems to be the maximum.
Anybody know how I can trick it into taking 2gb as dedicated vram?

I have 8gb ram total, taking 2 gb for vram shouldn't be such an issue.