"Loading Sprites" for 8 hours

[Dysnomia_13]

I want to play the game, it used to run fine but it's been a few months. I gave up after 8 hours of going from 50% to 66%. Please help!

0.004 2025-01-31 11:13:31; Factorio 2.0.32 (build 81349, win64, steam)
0.005 Operating system: Windows 11 (build 26100)
0.000 Initializing Steam API.
0.006 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe"
0.006 Config path: C:/Users/whitn/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/config/config.ini
0.006 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
0.006 Write data path: C:/Users/whitn/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [66811/487016MB]
0.006 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
0.050 System info: [CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with Radeon Graphics, 12 cores, RAM: 6180/15571 MB, page: 7560/23251 MB, virtual: 4351/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
0.359 Memory info:
0.359 [0]: Samsung M425R1GB4BB0-CWMOD 8192 MB 4800 MHz 1.1 v
0.360 [1]: Samsung M425R1GB4BB0-CWMOD 8192 MB 4800 MHz 1.1 v
0.367 Display options: [FullScreen: true] [VSync: true] [UIScale: automatic (100.0%)] [Native DPI: true] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
0.527 Video driver: windows
0.527 Available displays: 1
0.528 [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Driver {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 64Hz}
0.832 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: -1; d3dcompiler_47.dll
2.305 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU; id: 10de-28a1; driver: nvldumdx.dll 32.0.15.6636
2.305 D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-discard,-,-,-,none
2.305 [Local Video Memory] Budget: 5153MB, CurrentUsage: 6MB, Reservation: 0/2704MB
2.305 [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 7140MB, CurrentUsage: 0MB, Reservation: 0/3698MB
2.305 Tiled resources: Tier 2
2.305 Unified Memory Architecture: No
2.305 BGR 565 Supported: Yes
2.306 MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
2.308 Graphics settings preset: very-high
2.308 Dedicated video memory size 5921 MB
2.462 Desktop composition is active.
2.462 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: high] [Video memory usage: all] [DXT: high-quality]
2.462 [Max threads (load/render): 32/8] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: false] [Rotation quality: normal] [Other: STDCWTl] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
3.284 [Audio] Driver:wasapi, Device:Default device, Depth:16, Frequency:44100, Channels:2, Interpolation:linear
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag expansion-shaders = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag freezing = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag quality = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag rail-bridges = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag segmented-units = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag space-travel = false
5.128 Info ModManager.cpp:444: FeatureFlag spoiling = false
5.212 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
5.419 Loading mod base 2.0.32 (data.lua)
8.843 Loading mod base 2.0.32 (data-updates.lua)
9.832 Checksum for core: 544741660
9.832 Checksum of base: 183736295
10.770 Prototype list checksum: 2902124721
10.854 Loading sounds...
13.991 Info PlayerData.cpp:68: Local player-data.json unavailable
13.991 Info PlayerData.cpp:71: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1738339801
14.006 Post-data load graphics options: [Light occlusion: no]
14.697 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
14.809 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16368) [none]
14.818 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x12484) [none]
14.821 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x7424) [low-object]
14.835 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x11340) [corpse-decay]
14.836 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x4352) [decal]
14.839 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x5632) [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
14.839 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x1792) [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
14.841 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x6288) [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
14.843 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x2960) [terrain-effect-map, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
14.844 Created an atlas bitmap (size 4096x3088) [mipmap]
14.849 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x2480) [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
14.852 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x5168) [alpha-mask]
14.927 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x16364) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
14.929 Created an atlas bitmap (size 16384x3964) [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
14.931 Created an atlas bitmap (size 8192x2352) [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
14.933 Created an atlas bitmap (size 2048x272) [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
14.933 Loading 3D bitmaps.
14.987 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
15.114 Parallel sprite loader initialized (threads: 11, bitmaps: 4569)
30568.708 Closed during loading.

[Edwin]

The only thing that looks kind of weird to me is this line:

0.528 [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - Microsoft Basic Display Driver {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 64Hz}

But maybe that's just some intended laptop weirdness. I'm not really familiar with how laptops handle GPUs. Otherwise the logs don't show anything useful to me. Is the game even using and system resources during the wait?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

You iGPU doesn't have a functional driver, that should be fixed regardless.

Fixing that may help as laptops pass the rendering data from the dedicated card through the iGPU to the monitor and that may be breaking/slow beyond reason.

[mashtong54]

nah man it looks like somethng odd is haepping to how factrio is trying to alocate VRAM to the gpu and igpu. alsoboth the igpu and gpu are ablosute units that would be far more powerful then my comptuer like 5 times over. but it seams factrio doesn't know how to get thsoe textrues to fit on the gpu and igpu simosantly and is stuck in a lading texture loading loop. also his two gpus being the igpu and the gpu both comnibed would have been able to actly run factrio witha huge amonut of mods very very very very fast. so it looks like windows messed up or factrio messed up withte texture file loading geting stuck in a loop. thats what i see in the logs.

[mashtong54]

also sense space age factrio needs to be poked and proded every time its a fresh install you have to like keep clicking the factri app or program tab like if your where playing a cookie clicker game to get it to actly do anything due to a bug that seams that never got fixed form multiplatform testing for some odd real reason.

[RiO]

Originally posted by mashtong54:

also sense space age factrio needs to be poked and proded every time its a fresh install you have to like keep clicking the factri app or program tab like if your where playing a cookie clicker game to get it to actly do anything due to a bug that seams that never got fixed form multiplatform testing for some odd real reason.

First time I've heard of that, and I regularly read the bug reports on the official Factorio forums. Got a reference to a bug report talking about it? 'cuz now I'm curious.

[Swiss Army Tank]

I was having the same problem as OP mentioned. I found that I had a conflict in graphics drivers on my laptop. My laptop has an AMD cpu with integrated graphics and a dedicated Nvidia 3060 gpu. Uninstalling my AMD Radeon drivers seems to have eliminated the conflict between the two driversets and now the game loads up quickly. I haven't tested any further yet other than loading the game, but I wanted to pass on my experience in the hope that it is helpful to you.

Update: The game seems to be running normally.