[2.0.66] Stuck at Loading Sprites 50%

[elav]

Ran once or twice without incident, but now it takes forever to load. Starts slowing at Loading Sprites 50%. At some point (hours later), it will finally load but runs so slowly it is unplayable. I did a few searches and saw other people with a similar problem; however, the suggestions that were made were for older versions of the game and either immediately crashed the game or suggested options in settings that I couldn't find or aren't in this version. I am not running any mods and this is the Steam Demo version - no DLC. I would like to buy the game but have to make sure it will work first!!! As you will see in the log file, I am running an Intel Ultra 7 255HX, 32GB RAM, Win 11, with an Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU -- Nvidia Game Ready Drivers v 581.57. The game is loaded on an SSD. Thanks for any help.

[Loewchen]

Post the log of a session with the steam launch option --gfx-safe-mode, if it is still stuck you can just kill the process after a few minutes.

[elav]

Here you go -- thanks!

[Loewchen]

Try the zip demo, it is portable you just need to unpack it and run the exe: https://factorio.com/get-download/2.0.6 ... n64-manual

[elav]

Same problem. I attached the log of the non-steam version you provided. I really appreciate the help.

[elav]

FYI -- same behavior with the --gfx-safe-mode option on the non-steam demo.

[Loewchen]

One more thing you can try since it worked once, is an older version of the demo: https://factorio.com/get-download/2.0.2 ... n64-manual

[Jap2.0]

[0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Driver {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1200, 32bit, 64Hz} is weird, but it seems to detect your graphics driver later... not sure if I've seen that before or if it's relevant at all.

[Jap2.0]

Cf. 121890?

[Jap2.0]

Is there any way for you to verify or force that Factorio uses the Nvidia graphics card and not integrated graphics? Although even if it was using integrated graphics it shouldn't take that long to load...

[Loewchen]

It is saying that it uses dedicated graphics: Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU
But if the integrated one really has no driver, using it would essentially be software rendering so it could explain bad performance. But then, many if not most laptops show the Microsoft driver on the graphics port and work fine... still, installing/updating the driver on the integrated graphics would be one more thing to try.

[elav]

In Nvidia's app I have told it to force using the 5080 and not the integrated solution -- Also not sure why it would work great once or twice and now stop working if that were the case but I obviously don't know much!!

[elav]

It appears the integrated graphics was interfering. Finally figured out how to completely disable the integrated graphics (disabling in Control Panel wasn't sufficient). Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Jap2.0]

But then, many if not most laptops show the Microsoft driver on the graphics port

Okay, thanks, I wasn't sure on this. Mine doesn't and searching the forum revealed very few logs with exactly that text.