Instability issues with Intel’s 14th Gen and 13th Gen gaming CPUs have now begun to worry game developers as the Alderon Games team reveals their hard-hitting experience using these chips.
Intel’s 14th and 13th Gen Gaming CPU Instability Issues Stir New Trouble in Markets; Consumers are starting to choose alternatives like AMD Ryzen
Intel isn’t having a good time with their mainstream 14th and 13th generation consumer CPUs in the markets, and instability issues have plagued them.
Our recent report detailed how Intel is rejecting RMA requests for processors even though they meet the terms and conditions, which is not good for the company’s reputation. To top it all off, Intel’s CPUs are now more prone to gaming bugs and various glitches than rivals like AMD, which will not only put the firm’s market share at risk, but could also affect future releases like the Arrow Lake-S series. compromise.
Another thing that has come up is the disclosure of Intel’s instability problems Alderon Games, the studio responsible for the massively multiplayer dinosaur survival game Path of Titans. Matthew Cassels, founder of the studio, says that despite implementing all the fixes recommended by Intel, the problem persists; The five main areas where CPUs fail are:
- Recent Clients: Thousands of crashes on Intel CPUs on 13th and 14th generation CPUs in our crash reporting tools.
- Official Dedicated Game Servers: It experiences constant crashes, crashing all servers.
- Development Team: Developers using these CPUs often experience instability while building and working on games. It can also cause SSD and memory corruption.
- Game Server Providers: Hosting community servers with constant crash issues.
- Comparison Tools: Non-Path of Titans decompression and memory tests also fail.
Interestingly, Alderon Games said that they witnessed a 100% failure rate in their tests and that their Intel CPUs degrade over time and lose massive performance. To mitigate the problem, Alderon Games decided to switch entirely to AMD for their servers, which they claim “has 100 times less crashes”. This is not all good news for Intel; As the problem has now extended to the professional sector of the markets, Team Blue must find a solution immediately.
- Server migration: We replace all our servers with AMD, which has 100 times less crashes than Intel CPUs that are found to be faulty.
- Hosting recommendations: We advise anyone who owns Path of Titans servers or sells game servers to avoid buying or using 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs.
- In-game notifications: We are adding a pop-up message in the game to inform users with these processors about the issue. Many users currently do not know why their games are crashing and what they can do about it.
Additionally, Alderon Games advises its users not to purchase Intel’s 14th and 13th generation CPUs. To alert users about the issue, they decided to enable in-game notifications to a general audience. Hopefully Intel will come up with a solution as soon as possible in the form of either a CPU recall or a mitigation that will fix the problem once and for all.