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Posted: **Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:31 pm**

Alright heres a bit of background.

Tried picking up on a vanilla playthrough with a ribbon world when .17 first released, took a break and came back to it like a month or two ago but started having a memory leak issue. I have ~15 gigs of ram before thing go south and after about 3-5 mins of playing factorio would crash my whole computer. Tried unistalling and reinstalling and even wiped my mod folder since it was a vanilla run anyway. Didnt help so i took a break

I got back on yesterday and thought I would try again, same issue. Honestly was kind of tired of the map and figured I would start a new run in case the save file was the thing corrupted.

Currently running a modified marathon train world and play for several hours yesterday with no issue on the new map. Open the game this morning and the issue has returned. I delete all my other save files, install and uninstalled the game at least 3 times.

After opening the save once and closing the game this memory leak will happen even at main menu. If i restart and open game it idles fine until I open a save.

I have attached as many things as i can think of but please let me know if there are any other logs/files i can include.

Posted: **Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:20 pm**

That's very suspicious. Vanilla Steam version 0.17.54 on Windows 10 runs like this (after loading to main menu)

: main-menu.png (14.64 KiB) Viewed 2110 times

And like this when loading your save file (my home computer is in Czech ... sorry for that)

Save loaded

My log

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   0.000 2019-07-07 17:06:46; Factorio 0.17.54 (build 46015, win64, steam)
   0.000 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1803) 
   0.000 Program arguments: "D:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" "--video-memory-usage=all" "--graphics-quality=high" 
   0.000 Read data path: D:/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.000 Write data path: C:/Users/micha/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [126584/475527MB]
   0.001 Binaries path: D:/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.006 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 9195/16227 MB, page: 14994/21859 MB, virtual: 4332/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.006 Display options: [FullScreen: 0] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: 0000] [Lang: en]
   0.015 Available displays: 2
   0.016  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 59Hz}
   0.016  [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB {0x01, [-1920,0], 1920x1200, 32bit, 59Hz}
   0.060 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: 0; d3dcompiler_47.dll
   0.061 Verbose GraphicsInterfaceDX11.cpp:242: DXGI 1.5 detected, Allow tearing is supported
   0.062  Adapter [0]: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (25.21.14.1935)
   0.064  Adapter [1]: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (25.20.100.6373)
   0.066  Adapter [2]: Microsoft Basic Render Driver (10.0.17134.619)
   0.219 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB; id: 10de-1c02; driver: nvldumdx.dll 25.21.14.1935
   0.219   D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-sequential,-,-,-,none
   0.219   [Local Video Memory] Budget: 2539MB, CurrentUsage: 2MB, Reservation: 0/1344MB
   0.219   [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 7302MB, CurrentUsage: 0MB, Reservation: 0/3854MB
   0.219   Tiled resources: Tier 2
   0.219   Unified Memory Architecture: No
   0.219   BGR 565 Supported: Yes
   0.219   MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
   0.244 Verbose PipelineStateObject.cpp:83: Time to load shaders: 0.025020 seconds.
   0.250 Desktop composition is active.
   0.250 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.250   Dedicated video memory size 2988 MB
   0.250 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 25%] [DXT: high-quality]
   0.250                   [Max load threads: 32] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: 0] [Rotation quality: normal] [Color: 32bit]
   0.299 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   0.299 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=15740
   0.516 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.571 Verbose PipelineStateObject.cpp:75: Time to load shaders in background: 0.326256 seconds.
   0.640 Loading mod base 0.17.54 (data.lua)
   0.959 Loading mod base 0.17.54 (data-updates.lua)
   1.073 Checksum for core: 2486543994
   1.073 Checksum of base: 2542100768
   1.233 Verbose ModManager.cpp:471: Time to load mods: 0.860197
   1.263 Loading sounds...
   1.338 Info PlayerData.cpp:69: Local player-data.json unavailable
   1.338 Info PlayerData.cpp:72: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1562395205
   1.435 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   1.471 Created atlas bitmap 16384x16376 [none]
   1.474 Created atlas bitmap 16384x11084 [none]
   1.474 Created atlas bitmap 8192x3884 [decal]
   1.475 Created atlas bitmap 16384x4320 [low-object, linear-minification]
   1.476 Created atlas bitmap 8192x3664 [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
   1.477 Created atlas bitmap 16384x6880 [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
   1.477 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1600 [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
   1.478 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1704 [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
   1.478 Created atlas bitmap 2048x192 [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
   1.478 Created atlas bitmap 8192x1496 [alpha-mask]
   1.481 Created atlas bitmap 16384x12632 [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   1.482 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2352 [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
   1.486 Verbose TextureProcessor.cpp:1109: GPU accelerated compression test: Time 4.261 ms; YCoCg_DXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
   1.486 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
   2.261 Parallel Sprite Loader initialized (threads: 7)
   9.460 Sprites loaded
   9.493 Generated mipmaps (4) for atlas [3] of size 16384x4320   
   9.504 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [4] of size 8192x3664   
   9.538 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [5] of size 16384x6880   
   9.549 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [6] of size 4096x1600   
   9.560 Generated mipmaps (4) for atlas [7] of size 4096x1704   
   9.572 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [11] of size 8192x2352   
   9.572 Custom mipmaps uploaded.
   9.572 Verbose AtlasSystem.cpp:869: Atlas memory size: 1072.59MB; 0.00MB (virtual)
   9.572 Verbose AtlasSystem.cpp:870: Size of sprites outside of atlas: 0.00MB
   9.576 Custom inputs active: 0
   9.633 Factorio initialised

As you can see, the game is supposed use just few hungred megs of RAM and very little of CPU.

My suspition is that - either it is problem with old graphics driver (and _MAYBE_ turning off "Use flip presentation model" in graphics settings would fix that), OR you use some overlay that's leaking left and right (ie. Discord overlay is gift that keeps on giving, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was caused by Discord, but also never seen this happen before.) ... OR you caught some cryptominer malware that hooks onto running games to hide its CPU and memory usage.

I wonder how those 33% of your CPU used, so before you do anything, please download and install CPU profiler Very Sleepy. It's free and very light weight (just 4 MB download). Run it, then launch Factorio and reproduce the issue.

When the game starts using 30%+ of CPU, Alt+Tab to Very Sleepy, click Refresh so it updates list of running processes and then find and select factorio.exe in the list (you may want to sort the list by name, to find it better).
Check "Profile for set time(s)". You can leave it at 100 sec, or maybe reduce it to 60.
Then click on Profile All
As it starts capturing for given time interval (it'll show dialog with progress bar), Alt+Tab to task manager to make sure Factorio still uses lot of CPU power.
After 2 minutes Alt+Tab back to Very Sleepy, it should be finished with capture; Use "Save as" in File menu to save it to the file and post it here or email it to us, please.

Posted: **Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:39 am**

Hellfire wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:31 pm I have attached as many things as i can think of but please let me know if there are any other logs/files i can include.

Just quoting you so you get notification

Posted: **Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:07 pm**

So it seems to be running fine. Only change I did was close discord but whatever works.

Thanks for the help!

Posted: **Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:18 pm**

Discord. The gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks for letting us know.

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