I updated the driver, but the problem persists.

By freeze I'm always talking about a full system freeze.

Temperatures are all within the normal range, I will try playing around with the options a bit.
But the options won't really affect the system during game startup, or will they?

Vsync on/off unfortunately doesn't make a difference.

What's confusing me is that it also freezes during starting the game, so I don't think this has anything to do with graphics really?

Unfortunately I can't take a screenshot during the freeze as it freezes the whole system, not just Factorio. I can only take a screenshot shortly after the freeze.

I've attached the screenshots and logfile.

Before freeze
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After freeze
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I've also ...

I'm having an issue where the game will freeze the system for 1-10 seconds. I don't think this is an UPS issue since it occurs on an empty map as well and it seems not to be correlated to CPU load or available RAM, as no core is over 40% when this happens and no more than 25% of RAM are being used ...