Performance issue, [SOLVED]

[Dan]

Im guessing its something to do with my laptop, Im running an i7-8550u and geforce MX150. On a brand new map i get 6 FPS which seems absurd.

[jagholin]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/5/412448792355921191/

[Dan]

 0.001 2022-02-04 05:03:40; Factorio 1.1.53 (build 59373, win64, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 (build 22000) 
   0.001 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.001 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.001 Write data path: C:/Users/chakr/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [135211/243551MB]
   0.001 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.013 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 4405/8069 MB, page: 5107/20869 MB, virtual: 4336/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
   0.014 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 0] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
   0.029 Available displays: 1
   0.029  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Adapter {0x8000005, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 64Hz}
   0.146 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: 0; d3dcompiler_47.dll
   0.470 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce MX150; id: 10de-1d10; driver: nvldumdx.dll 30.0.15.1165
   0.470   D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-discard,-,-,-,none
   0.470   [Local Video Memory] Budget: 1686MB, CurrentUsage: 4MB, Reservation: 0/892MB
   0.470   [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 3631MB, CurrentUsage: 0MB, Reservation: 0/1916MB
   0.470   Tiled resources: Tier 2
   0.470   Unified Memory Architecture: No
   0.470   BGR 565 Supported: Yes
   0.470   MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
   0.471 Graphics settings preset: high
   0.471   Dedicated video memory size 1983 MB
   0.566 Desktop composition is active.
   0.566 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: all] [DXT: low-quality] [Color: 32bit]
   0.566                   [Max threads (load/render): 32/8] [Max texture size: 4096] [Tex.Stream.: 0] [Rotation quality: low] [Other: STDCwt] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
   0.649 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
   0.649 [Audio] Backend:default; Depth:16, Channel:2, Frequency:44100; MixerQuality:linear
   0.650 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=2332
   0.779 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   1.167 Loading mod base 1.1.53 (data.lua)
   1.703 Loading mod base 1.1.53 (data-updates.lua)
   2.005 Checksum for core: 1625176034
   2.005 Checksum of base: 98178652
   2.493 Prototype list checksum: 3034860339
   2.559 Loading sounds...
   2.705 Info PlayerData.cpp:73: Local player-data.json unavailable
   2.705 Info PlayerData.cpp:76: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1643972466
   3.107 Initial atlas bitmap size is 4096
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   3.194 Created atlas bitmap 4096x2120 [decal]
   3.199 Created atlas bitmap 4096x4096 [low-object, linear-minification]
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   3.241 Created atlas bitmap 2048x240 [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
   3.248 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
   5.003 Parallel Sprite Loader initialized (threads: 5)
  15.025 Sprites loaded
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  16.673 Custom mipmaps uploaded.
  17.261 Factorio initialised
  17.281 Steam Storage Quota: 4751/4768
  40.907 Quitting: window closed.
  41.010 DSound: Stopping voice
  41.010 DSound: Joining thread
  41.012 DSound: Exit _dsound_update; tid=2332
  41.012 DSound: Waiting for voice to stop ... signaled
  41.012 DSound: Joined thread
  41.012 DSound: Destroying thread
  41.012 DSound: Thread destroyed
  41.012 DSound: Releasing buffer
  41.012 DSound: Voice stopped
  41.012 DSound: Deallocating voice
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  41.472 Steam API shutdown.
  41.483 Goodbye  

[jagholin]

0.470 [Local Video Memory] Budget: 1686MB, CurrentUsage: 4MB, Reservation: 0/892MB

i think this migt be a problem

make sure you have sprite resolution: normal, and high quality animations disabled.

also there are mods to help with vram load, like "no animations"

[Dan]

Thank you for the reply, sadly these settings have actually reduced the FPS even further. Im not sure whats wrong with my laptop since i can play some other games which seems as demanding if not a little more without too much issue.

[jagholin]

also I dont like this

0.029 [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-basic-display-adapter-on-windows-10-fd1c777c-d4d5-f05a-edb1-0dc7031fd677

"The Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is software that's built into Windows that provides display and graphics capabilities when software from your hardware manufacturer isn't installed. "

but at the same time, it loads some nvidia driver on the next line?

looks like problem with drivers

[Jesse]

def a problem with the pc itself, just replace the pc at some point if low fps is a consistent problem, you can't really upgrade laptops

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Seeing "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" in any log suggests an issue with GPU drivers, may need to update the iGPU drivers. The actual GPU doesn't have much memory either.

The display adaptor on a laptop is usually the iGPU, which will be an Intel GPU for your system, with a driver not meant for anything much beyond allowing you to get by until you have a real one it may be a major bottleneck.

[Dan]

Thanks for all the help, turns out I needed to update my inetgrated chip drivers for my nvidia drivers to work properly, never would have even thought of that so thanks very much