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I purchased the game on Steam. It has been working really well but recently as I am growing my factory, there is loss in UPS. My current base is only about 100 spm and I know I can build much bigger without such big drops in UPS.

Upon further investigation I came to the conclusion that Steam is causing these issues my mac. So I quit Steam and the game automatically quit along with it. I read somewhere that Steam needs to run when playing most games. My question is, is there a way to decouple Steam from Factorio so I can keep growing my factory?

You can get the steam free version from factorio.com, check the local faq.

Thank you so much for the very quick reply. I managed to login using Steam and I am able to see the download link.

If I uninstall the Steam version and reinstall, would all my save games be retained or do I need to backup and copy old files once reinstalled?

You will not see save files from the steam install in the factorio.com installation as they use different directories, but you can move them.

I will backup and install. Thank you for your help!