As MtNak explained, it rarely hurts to have a few more threads than your CPU can handle concurrently. Your operating system will automatically switch between them if you have more active threads than CPU cores, so don't worry about it too much. On the other hand, if you set this to a small number (l...

MF- wrote:Actually, it was you who suggested grepping for "drm"

It was sillyfly! See the top of this page.

Oh, I don't think I did. Do you think it's the root cause for my issues as well? It's this one: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3157 I'm not sure if this could be the cause for your issues. Maybe the Intel driver doesn't error out when storing a big texture fails (like the...

It's actually nice to hear that there are linux people who can play outside the nvidia group Don't worry, I'm a factorio-playing AMD Radeon HD 6870 user on free mesa radeon drivers. So it's even more than just nvidia and some Intel users! (Though you may have noticed the bug report about a bad text...

What I'm afraid of now is that one day they will fix this bug and we will be getting large textures without hw acceleration. Even if the bug gets fixed, you should still be able to query for hardware acceleration support using texture proxies (the FAQ is titled "What's the maximum size texture...

I would very much appreciate any tutorial on how to install the game on Linux/Ubuntu. If I remember correctly, it was pretty easy and didn't involve using the terminal emulator. The following list may seem pretty long but it's very detailed. :D * Download the .tar.gz File from the factorio website ...

I noticed dmesg clearly states the reason for this failure in my case: [ 552.003518] radeon_gem_object_create:62 alloc size 384Mb bigger than 256Mb limit I don't know why that 256Mb limit is there. Using the error message I found a mesa bug report about this. Someone suggested to lower the max. text...

I've set some debug environment variables and now I get some additional log info: radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 402653184 bytes radeon: alignment : 65536 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 402653184 bytes radeon: alignment : 65536 byte...

I get this similar error using Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM) on Ubuntu 14.04 (i.e. Linux 3.13 with Ubuntu patches and mesa 10.1): radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 402653184 bytes radeon: alignment : 65536 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 40...