I actually had one Blutooth 8bit Snes-like controller connected via usb for charging. Steam seemingly tried to connect to this controller via blutooth, even though the controller was'nt paired with my PC any more, which lead to the issue.

edit: seemingly, I'm not the only one where Steam is acting ...

Ok, I fxed it. The issue was caused by steam itself - I noticed that some (but not all) other games had the same issue when started from steam. Opening steam with debug console opened showed that it would try to connect a controller every few seconds and fail which would cause the freeze.

The only ...

Nope, just the current non-beta steam client

couldn´t it just have been a corrupt installation and with reinstalling the non steam version, you "fixed" it?


Very unlikely. I reinstalled the steam version several times before I created thispost (on different SSDs). To be sure, I've just renamed the exe and redownloaded via Steam - the ...

There must be some difference (e.g. Steam achievements ?)

I've now replace the executable in steamapps/common/factorio with the one from factorio website and it's also running fine when launching from steam (with steam overlay). So the only difference is the actual binary, while paths, config files ...

I have just downloaded the non-steam version to check and it seems like it is actually caused by Factorios steam integration. Non-Steam version from factorio website does not have this issue

The only idea would be steam overlay, but even disabling the overlay doesn't help much

Every 8-15 seconds factorio freezes for around 1 second. This happens irregardless of graphics setting, but strangely only after crafting the first electronic circuit

The attached zipfile contains 2 savefiles: One before crafting the circuit, one shortly after.
Also, it cotains 2 screenshots: One ...