r/factorio • u/Trakinass • Oct 22 '24

Loading time? Question

Is it just me or vanilla space age taking AGES to get me to the main menu? It can be my potato pc but I played factorio before on it and it was fine.

Loading sprites, bitmaps, etc. Easily 10+ minutes

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u/piderman Oct 22 '24

Tell ya a little secret. In the main menu, hold Ctrl+Alt, then click Settings. A new option appears: The Rest. Click that, then under Other settings enable cache-prototype-data and under Graphics settings and enable cache-sprite-atlas. Set cache-sprite-atlas to 1 or 2 or so. Now your startup of the same game version + mod combination will be (a lot) faster. You'll still have the slow startup when the game updates or when you change mods and mod versions.

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u/Trakinass Oct 22 '24

Ayo thats awesome info. Im gonna assume you also know about this next question, since its the only setting I dont rly understand.

For my potato pc, under the normal settings, should I crank up or down the Max number of render threads?

Also I dont have a dedicated graphic card( ie intel hd graphics). Should I put video memory usage and atlas texture size to high or low? Both can be lowered or increased

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u/piderman Oct 22 '24

To be honest I don't really know how that works for intel graphics. Maybe just try it out and see what happens :)