Okay, I fixed it, but it's such a weird issue, I'm not sure how to even feel about it.
Having my 8bitdo controller plugged in, in nintendo switch mode, as the first controller, completely destroys my steam and, by proxy, Factorio gets really finicky as well.

On a second note, I've been running the game off of steam and steam seems to be having the worst time of its life, constrantly freezing and stuttering as well

It sounds like a special problem for you PC. Either OS/drivers or even hardware. You could try to update drivers, OS You should check CPU / GPU temperatures, which could throttle down the system, if too high You can check for RAM (Memtest) or HD failures. If it's that the problem then it's not any ...

Maybe it's memory related, that it's getting low? That's what I was thinking, that dedicated memory to factorio was somehow limited at lower values, or that maybe something is causing my game to consume much more memory than it's supposed to (but if it's a memory leak related to the map then it sho...

Maybe it's memory related, that it's getting low? That's what I was thinking, that dedicated memory to factorio was somehow limited at lower values, or that maybe something is causing my game to consume much more memory than it's supposed to (but if it's a memory leak related to the map then it sho...

You could press F4 and enable "show-time-usage" When the freeze happens, you can look, if a mod or something is using a lot of time. I checked the save, but didn't notice anything yet Did you try walking around? Maybe to the north a bit? Or examining the north front? I wish I could read i...

Me and a friend have been playing for a month now without any problem. Never had these freezes before (minus when he'd start downloading the map) but right now, I can't play without the game freezing. UPS/FPS look fine, and then boom, all of a sudden, it drops to 1.18 and then back on. There doesn't...