On Mac game lags like hell when I'm trying to move

[c0d3!n3 w4rr!0r5 | BrT]

Demo version from official website is running perfectly.
Ofcourse Steam version have to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. It's lagging like hell whenever i try to move character. If it stands still it's ok.

Hackintosh
i5 4670k
gtx 960

[brian_va]

featherless님이 먼저 게시:

Ah and to clarify as well: I'm not using any mods or additional features. This is stock game running on the same mac with very different keyboard/mouse input experiences between 0.16 vs 0.17

i know some were having issues just launching on previous OS versions, maybe upgrade to the latest mac OS if you havent and are able to.

[featherless]

I just upgraded my OS X version to 10.14.3 and the game is running buttery smooth now! Looks like it may have just been an outdated OS (I believe I was on 10.14.1 or 10.14.2).

Edit: spoke too soon. Still experiencing laggy behavior every now and then. It seems to be correlated with when the fans on my laptop turn on, furthering my theory that the event queue is getting flooded (CPU operating at high load) and input events aren't being properly prioritized. UPS/FPS is a solid 60/60 while the lag is happening.

[Killcreek2]

featherless님이 먼저 게시:

Edit: spoke too soon. Still experiencing laggy behavior every now and then. It seems to be correlated with when the fans on my laptop turn on, furthering my theory that the event queue is getting flooded (CPU operating at high load) and input events aren't being properly prioritized. UPS/FPS is a solid 60/60 while the lag is happening.

That sounds like your laptop might be overheating ~ fan kicks in to cool it down, while at the same time the CPU "clock speed" (or number of available cores) is lowered so that it produces less heat but means it works slower. Pretty common feature / issue with laptops.
Overheating can produce a wide variety of oddish behaviour, though it is a bit unusual that you get input lag rather than UPS/FPS drops. Could be related to the integrated graphics chip (or it being a mac OS).

Some macbook pros have a proper dedicated graphics card (geforce) in addition to the on-chip (iris) ~ it is *supposed* to automagically swap between them depending on what the user is doing. If your machine has both, make sure that it is using the dedicated card for Factorio (it might be choosing the wrong one, as Factorio is a 2d app but makes use of 3d-accelerated GPUs in atypical ways).

[-::Snakefinger::-]

Same issue on Macbook here as well. Unplayable.

[argonitas]

Have the same issue. It was working fine about 1-2 years ago on my old Macbook Pro. On my new one, (i9 2.9 GHz, 32 GB memory, Intel UHD graphics 630 with 1536 memory) it's unplayable. Fan is going crazy and it feels like it's overheating. No mods installed. Would be thankful for any ideas.

[Nailfoot]

argonitas님이 먼저 게시:

Have the same issue. It was working fine about 1-2 years ago on my old Macbook Pro. On my new one, (i9 2.9 GHz, 32 GB memory, Intel UHD graphics 630 with 1536 memory) it's unplayable. Fan is going crazy and it feels like it's overheating. No mods installed. Would be thankful for any ideas.

Are you playing on the experimental branch?

[argonitas]

Nailfoot님이 먼저 게시:

argonitas님이 먼저 게시:

Have the same issue. It was working fine about 1-2 years ago on my old Macbook Pro. On my new one, (i9 2.9 GHz, 32 GB memory, Intel UHD graphics 630 with 1536 memory) it's unplayable. Fan is going crazy and it feels like it's overheating. No mods installed. Would be thankful for any ideas.

Are you playing on the experimental branch?

Nope.

[Nailfoot]

argonitas님이 먼저 게시:

Nailfoot님이 먼저 게시:

Are you playing on the experimental branch?

Nope.

You may want to try. While this game has always had an awesome reputation of being super optimized, perhaps some change in the experimental version will make the game run better on your system.

I started playing this game years ago and have never experienced any lag, even in mega bases with hundreds of trains, 10s of thousands of bots, and a metric crap-ton of belts!

Two caveats:
1. I am playing on a desktop, Core I9-9900K, 2080RTX, and 32gbs RAM, and the game loaded on an SSD

2. I use Windows 10

So I know YMMV, but its worth a try.

[beamupstc]

argonitas님이 먼저 게시:

Have the same issue. It was working fine about 1-2 years ago on my old Macbook Pro. On my new one, (i9 2.9 GHz, 32 GB memory, Intel UHD graphics 630 with 1536 memory) it's unplayable. Fan is going crazy and it feels like it's overheating. No mods installed. Would be thankful for any ideas.

macOS version? That seems to be interestingly more important than hardware for whatever reason.

I'm Catalina 10.15.3, 4GHz i7 quad, 16GB DDR3, AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4GB, SSD. (i.e. late-2015 iMac with extra RAM and SSD) Factorio performs, well, perfectly. It's really not a hardware-taxing game until you start in on the "how many SPM can I produce before my UPS drops" gigabase scale. So unusually, hardware is really not where you should start looking when you have performance issues.

[argonitas]

I'm on an SSD as well. Catalina 10.15.1. I had no problems on my old Mac either. But it was also an older Factorio version. My factory is quite small. Only about 1-2 hours played on a green field.

[posila87]

The issue OP had was bug in the game that caused touchpad events to interrupt processing of input events in current frame causing larger and larger input delay. That was fixed in 0.17.5.

If you are experiencing performance problems on Mac with Retina display, try to disable "Render in native screen resolution" in graphics settings (and restart the game), especially if your computer has only integrated GPU. Older game versions (0.16 and older) behaved as if this setting was disabled (without option to enable it).

[argonitas]

posila87님이 먼저 게시:

The issue OP had was bug in the game that caused touchpad events to interrupt processing of input events in current frame causing larger and larger input delay. That was fixed in 0.17.5.

If you are experiencing performance problems on Mac with Retina display, try to disable "Render in native screen resolution" in graphics settings (and restart the game), especially if your computer has only integrated GPU. Older game versions (0.16 and older) behaved as if this setting was disabled (without option to enable it).

That's it! Thanks a lot! Now it works like before! Maybe you should not activate this option automatically on retina displays.

[Fuguball]

Shouldn't be. The crappiest macs could run this game. First go check the video settings in the game, try reducing and increasing the allocated ram, etc. Play around with the settings? You could also go to mac's activity monitor and memory tab to see if the game is taking up too much of your RAM. If so, try restarting your mac. Restarting always works for me.. OR it could be your storage thats running low and running games require, not just memory but also enough free space, my mac couldn't run chrome when I had like 10m of disk space left.

[Nailfoot]

Fuguball님이 먼저 게시:

Shouldn't be. The crappiest macs could run this game. First go check the video settings in the game, try reducing and increasing the allocated ram, etc. Play around with the settings? You could also go to mac's activity monitor and memory tab to see if the game is taking up too much of your RAM. If so, try restarting your mac. Restarting always works for me.. OR it could be your storage thats running low and running games require, not just memory but also enough free space, my mac couldn't run chrome when I had like 10m of disk space left.

This is a year old thread. I wager the OP's problem is resolved by now, especially since the developer replied a year ago.