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by pioruns
Wed Jan 28, 2026 3:49 pm
Forum: Outdated/Not implemented
Topic: Better compression for savegames
Replies: 18
Views: 10495

Re: Better compression for savegames


I like to have cake and also eat it so my solution to minimal interruption for backups is to make a snapshot/shadow copy and have that compressed to the maximum by a background process/thread.
Worst case my backup is already a few seconds to minutes old when created.


Linux solves this. 8 ...
by pioruns
Tue Jan 27, 2026 4:17 pm
Forum: 1 / 0 magic
Topic: Crash report
Replies: 6
Views: 623

Re: Crash report

Absolutely, the OS should never crash. I’ve essentially never seen crashes with the Linux kernel. If one does occur, something has to go, either the hardware or the OS. :P

OP, you were most likely sold old stock that is prone to the permanent defect described above. It’s unfortunate that a vendor ...
by pioruns
Tue Jan 27, 2026 12:00 pm
Forum: 1 / 0 magic
Topic: Crash report
Replies: 6
Views: 623

Re: Crash report

Your CPU belongs to the Raptor Lake family, which has known issues that can lead to permanent hardware degradation under certain conditions. If you're experiencing frequent crashes, especially during gaming or high-load scenarios, your CPU may already be damaged. This is not an isolated case, it's a ...
by pioruns
Thu Jan 22, 2026 9:53 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Regional value in Brazil
Replies: 9
Views: 1112

Re: Regional value in Brazil


This post is not about asking for sales or price reductions.

Currently, Factorio costs about $35 USD.
In the United States, this corresponds to roughly 2–3% of a minimum monthly wage.
In Brazil, the regional price represents approximately 7–8% of a minimum monthly wage.


So what you are ...
by pioruns
Wed Jan 14, 2026 9:25 am
Forum: 1 / 0 magic
Topic: [2.0.72] Crash TransportLine::deactivate
Replies: 2
Views: 473

Re: [2.0.72] Crash TransportLine::deactivate

Your CPU belongs to the Raptor Lake family, which has known issues that can lead to permanent hardware degradation under certain conditions. If you're experiencing frequent crashes, especially during gaming or high-load scenarios, your CPU may already be damaged. This is not an isolated case, it's a ...
by pioruns
Tue Jan 06, 2026 3:23 pm
Forum: Pending
Topic: [2.0.72] Crash mass firing artillery
Replies: 7
Views: 751

Re: [2.0.72] Crash mass firing artillery

System uptime itself should not cause instability. However, based on your description, I can imagine that users of MS Windows often expect this.

Please test the RAM with Memtest86+ and the CPU with Prime95; the source of the instability may be elsewhere.
by pioruns
Thu Jan 01, 2026 6:00 pm
Forum: Pending
Topic: [2.0.72] Crash mass firing artillery
Replies: 7
Views: 751

Re: [2.0.72] Crash mass firing artillery

link7011 wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 3:24 am During the clearing of these nests sometimes the game hard crashes, causing chrome to freeze up, windows file explorer to restart and both my screens to go dark for a few seconds
This sounds just like a Nvidia GPU driver crashing and recovering. Check Windows Event Viewer, System tab.
by pioruns
Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:27 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE

I've been running Linux baremetal for many years. My last Windows I used on baremetal was 10, about 7 years ago. Since then, I have Libvirt VMs with Windows 7 running isolated financial software 24/7, but that's it.
Switching to pure Linux baremetal is doable :) Just try to run things daily on ...
by pioruns
Tue Dec 30, 2025 10:54 am
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE

So you are saying some or all experiences described here were on some kind of VM through Proxmox with GPU passthrough, not a baremetal Fedora KDE install? Sorry but I have not noticed that earlier, or I may have misunderstood you now, please help me understand.
by pioruns
Tue Dec 30, 2025 4:47 am
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE


Any idea about that message? Thank you!


This message is harmless, but it's indicating your CPU was very busy and Linux kernel could not do in time what it was planning to do. I often see that on my home server, which gets very CPU-heavy, but it should not happen on 5950X, to be honest.

You can ...
by pioruns
Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:20 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE

Your PC is very similar to mine indeed. I also have 5950X and Fractal case (Meshify 2 model) 😃 Before upgrading to Meshify, I had Fractal Design R5.

That nvidia-smi output, it is while performance already dropped? At any point, did your GPU VRAM bot filled completely?
Please have terminal opened ...
by pioruns
Sun Dec 28, 2025 3:58 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE

Can you share nvidia-smi result but with Factorio running? The one you shared doesn't list Factorio on the list of processes utilizing GPU memory.
Do you run the game directly, or through Steam?

Please also test GPU under stress, I recommend Furmark. See if temps are OK under heavy load. Maybe the ...
by pioruns
Sun Dec 28, 2025 3:07 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE
Replies: 16
Views: 1212

Re: Factorio dropping to <30 FPS when running in KDE

I play on Fedora 43 KDE, and it works perfectly well for me. But I do have a Radeon 6800XT card, not Nvidia.
So Fedora KDE + Wayland + Radeon works well.
But in your case, Fedora KDE + Wayland + Nvidia doesn't work well.
The problem may be with Nvidia driver under specific conditions (KDE 6 ...
by pioruns
Sun Dec 28, 2025 2:43 am
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: Save file loading fails with I/O error
Replies: 3
Views: 795

Re: Save file loading fails with I/O error

Have you checked filesystem? Do a fsck pass.
And dmesg output for any I/O errors?
by pioruns
Sun Dec 21, 2025 3:26 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Remove fast inserter
Replies: 17
Views: 1789

Re: Replace inserter with fast inserter

Great. I hope that will close the matter for good.
by pioruns
Sun Dec 21, 2025 10:49 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Remove fast inserter
Replies: 17
Views: 1789

Re: Replace inserter with fast inserter

Inserter should not be removed just like that. It is cheap, uses less electricity, has many valid use cases, dispite better devices available later on.
If you don't like it, just don't use it.
by pioruns
Sun Dec 21, 2025 10:40 am
Forum: Mods
Topic: [MOD 1.0.x|0.18.x] fCPU
Replies: 4
Views: 4409

Re: [MOD 1.0.x|0.18.x] fCPU

You really had to design your own software licence to release a free mod to a computer game?
I doubt users will find this encouraging.
by pioruns
Sun Dec 21, 2025 10:08 am
Forum: 1 / 0 magic
Topic: [2.0.72] Crash to desktop frequently
Replies: 9
Views: 651

Re: [2.0.72] Crash to desktop frequently

Your CPU belongs to the Raptor Lake family, which has known issues that can lead to permanent hardware degradation under certain conditions. If you're experiencing frequent crashes, especially during gaming or high-load scenarios, your CPU may already be damaged. This is not an isolated case, it's a ...
by pioruns
Wed Dec 17, 2025 2:32 am
Forum: 1 / 0 magic
Topic: [2.0.72][linux] Crash saving while alt-tabed
Replies: 6
Views: 681

Re: [2.0.72][linux] Crash saving while alt-tabed


Without being able to investigate further my first guess would be what ever desktop shell you're using is broken and causing the issue. Factorio doesn't do anything different when "alt-tabbed" vs not.


That would match typical Manjaro experience. It's a rolling distro, with many things being ...

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