Factorio Freezing (game not computer)

[Dark Lord Orobus]

Hey guys, I am loving Factorio, but every so often it will freeze and I will have to 'ctl alt delete' out of the game/crash and restart the game up again, which doesn't take long but is pretty annoying.

CPU Temps seem fine, and none of my other games are freezing so I am thinking its some sort of bug, but I am not very good on computers. Anyone know what the issue might be? I just got the game so I dont know if this is because of an update or just the game itself in general. Nvidia drivers are up to date and I am using version 0.15.30 (build 30950)

Many thanks!

[CanadianAtheist89]

im having the same issue. love the game. but it will freeze randomly. the start menu, the tuturial games. it will freeze in a matter of minutes from eachother to a point where i will play 6 hours straight before freezing. its diffinitly a bug.

[sd50]

After update, I have also terribly big lags

[Dark Lord Orobus]

Well guys turned out my problem was bad memory! So maybe use memtest and check!

[Schnooble]

I'm having the same issues. The game just randomly hangs. No error message or weirdness, just stops responding. Happens during gameplay, menus. I also did a memcheck, but that came out clean.

This was also happening on the demo, but I thought perhaps that was using old code so I bought the game and it died during the main menu trying to start up the game. I checked the forums.factoria site for any known issues that sound like this but didn't see anything.

0.001 2018-04-01 02:06:09; Factorio 0.16.36 (build 36253, win64, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1709) 
   0.001 Program arguments: "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.001 Read data path: D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.001 Write data path: C:/Users/Randy/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [54333/121551MB]
   0.001 Binaries path: D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.008 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 6547/16321 MB, page: 7524/16321 MB, virtual: 231/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.009 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: system (100.0%)] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Screen: 255] [Lang: en]
   0.011 Available display adapters: 2
   0.011  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.011  [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 {0x01, [1920,0], 1680x1050, 32bit, 59Hz}
   0.011 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   0.094 Initialised Direct3D:[0] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780; driver: nvldumdx.dll 23.21.13.8813
   0.099   Video memory size (dedicated video/dedicated system/shared system/available): 3039/0/8160/4088 MB
   0.129 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   0.129 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=55532
   0.130 Device reset internal.
   0.133 Desktop composition is active.
   0.133 Graphics settings preset: very-high
   0.133 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 25%] [DXT: false] [Shader: 1]
   0.133                   [Parallel sprite loading: 1] [Max texture size: 0/8192] [Bmp cache: 0] [Sprite slicing: 1] [Low quality rotation: 0]
   0.197 Error GlobalModSettings.cpp:107: Failed to migrate mod settings file: Error when opening C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\mod-settings.json for reading: No such file or directory
   0.198 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.216 Loading mod base 0.16.36 (data.lua)
   0.361 Loading mod base 0.16.36 (data-updates.lua)
   0.412 Checksum for core: 1316978547
   0.412 Checksum of base: 4140083139
   0.523 Loading sounds...
   0.610 Info PlayerData.cpp:67: Local player-data.json unavailable
   0.610 Info PlayerData.cpp:72: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
   0.697 Info CropCache.cpp:52: Exception while loading crop cache: The file is from previous game version. This can be probably ignored
   0.748 Loaded shader file D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/game.cso
   0.749 Loaded shader file D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/zoom-to-world.cso
   0.749 Loaded shader file D:/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data/core/graphics/shaders/alpha-mask.cso
   0.750 Crop bitmaps.
   9.931 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   9.936 Created atlas bitmap 16384x13062 [none]
  10.505 Created atlas bitmap 16384x3020 [shadow]
  10.590 Created atlas bitmap 16384x2104 [decal]
  10.643 Created atlas bitmap 8192x5596 [mipmap]
  10.719 Created atlas bitmap 8192x800 [mipmap, smoke]
  10.731 Created atlas bitmap 8192x8188 [linear-minification, mipmap, terrain]
  10.848 Created atlas bitmap 8192x1328 [linear-minification, mipmap, terrain]
  10.862 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2092 [no-crop, trilinear-filtering, icon, light]
  10.888 Created atlas bitmap 8192x924 [alpha-mask]
  25.209 Sprites loaded
  25.209 Convert atlas 8192x5596 to: mipmap 
  25.403 Convert atlas 8192x800 to: mipmap 
  25.430 Convert atlas 8192x8188 to: min-linear 
  25.712 Convert atlas 8192x1328 to: min-linear 
  25.754 Convert atlas 8192x2092 to: trilinear-filtering 
  25.824 Convert atlas 8192x924 to: alpha-mask
  26.284 Custom inputs active: 0
  26.385 Factorio initialised

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Schnooble:

I'm having the same issues. The game just randomly hangs.
...

Originally posted by Wolf8312:

Well guys turned out my problem was bad memory! So maybe use memtest and check!

Tried his advice?

[Schnooble]

Yeah I did a MemCheck and there were no issues reported.

I hate to be "that" guy and say this, but this is seriously the only game that I have any issues with that happen on a regular occurance. If 3-4 times can be called regular... I'll keep playing and see if i can notice any sort of pattern and report back if I notice anything.

[Schnooble]

Ok, played for quite a few more hours with 0 crashes. Only thing I can figure is that I did a reboot when I had to do the memCheck. I never turn my computer off and can't remember the last time I did a reboot. So yeah, looks like the reboot fixed my issue..

[Killcreek2]

Originally posted by Schnooble:

Ok, played for quite a few more hours with 0 crashes. Only thing I can figure is that I did a reboot when I had to do the memCheck. I never turn my computer off and can't remember the last time I did a reboot. So yeah, looks like the reboot fixed my issue..

Windows OS are notorious for collecting garbage data & gradually becoming sluggish the longer they are left running without a reboot. More noticeable when you run lots of different programs on each day.
You ought to reboot 1-2 times a week, at minimum, just to keep your PC running well & avoid some odd behaviour (such as the freeze you encountered).

[ShutEye_DK]

Originally posted by Killcreek2:

Bla bla bla ...

You ought to read up upon how Windows works now.

[Schnooble]

Ok, i take my previous statment back. i'm still experiencing intermittent crashing.

1)Once I had the menu up, and it locked up. However I could still hear all the music and sound effects and if I used the keyboard to walk around i could hear my guy walking, But nothing would move on the screen.

2) Just had another one where I was placing a belt and that game locked up. Music was still playing however.

3) A few other misc crashes that I have no details for. Just locked up during gameplay.

Is there an official location where we can write up bugs or do the devs regularily scan this forum?

Edit: I just realized my nvidia drivers are quite old. Installing new ones and will see if that makes a difference.