Thank you for the quick reply, I'll try reducing the graphics settings and see if that works. If the issue persists nonetheless, I'll update this thread.

It seems Factorio can often cause an enormous amount of System Interrupts on Windows 7 (enough to completely choke up a 3GHz-core) when looking at forests.

When running Factorio, the game regularly starts stuttering. I at first attributed that to normal performance issues, but noticed that it also ...