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When it rain down , it pours , at least for Intel — or rather , its customers . As first report in February , Intel’sbest CPUshave been crashing for months now , and the tumult that was antecedently limited to gamers is now spreading like wildfire to data center and secret plan studios . This clock time , Alderon Games , the studio behindPath of Titans , made a inviolable statement about the problem . The studio claims that Intel ’s 13th and 14th - gen CPUs have a “ closely 100 % ” failure charge per unit , and as a final result , Alderon Games isswitching all of its waiter to AMD .
Alderon Games did n’t mince words in itsstatement , making it clear that there ’s something wrong with Intel ’s latest desktop processor . While mostly associated with consumer PCs , these CPUs are powerful enough to escape game servers , too , and the lack of a fix over the last few calendar month has become a job for the fellowship . Matthew Cassells , the beginner of Alderon Games , advert issues such as smash , instability , and spoil SSDs and memory , with all of them only occurring on Intel ’s 13th and 14th - gen processor . Installing Modern BIOS and microcode updates did n’t empty the problem .
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Cassells stated that the biz studio found government issue in five primary sphere , include end customers , with thousands of crashes on these central processor in particular and entire plot host being take down .
After months of relative secretiveness from Intel , and no fix in sight , Alderon Games is cutting all tie . “ To prevent further harm to our game , [ … ] we are swapping all our server to AMD , which see 100 time fewer crashes compare to Intel CPUs that were launch to be bad . ” Cassells also admonish others : “ We advise anyone hostingPath of Titansservers or sell game server to avoid purchasing or using 13th- and fourteenth - gen Intel CPUs . ”
Only yesterday , we report on how YouTuber Level1Techslooked into crash reports from two games , finding that out of a total of 1,584 decompression errors , 1,431 occurred on Intel ’s 13th- and fourteenth - generation processors . As a comparing , there were only four report for AMD CPUs .
Due to these unyielding crashes , data point sum providers now commit a massive premium for sustenance on Intel - based servers . Meanwhile , an unknown secret plan developer claimed that they might mislay over $ 100 KB in lost thespian due to secret plan crashes that were reportedly triggered by Intel ’s faulty central processor .
This is n’t a full look for Intel , and it does n’t help oneself that the only genuine agency to gear up the issue is to send the C.P.U. in for a substitution . ( Before you do , see out our guide first . ) It ’s concentrated to say how promiscuous it ’s been for customers to get their replenishment and refunds , though . Areej Syed ofHardware Timesreported that the publication had to RMA ( return materials authorization)the Core i9 - 13900KF twice .
The 2d whole that Intel sent in actually lead decently well until it started crashing every other minute inThe First Descendant . Syed partake in an Event Viewer lumber with a massive 44,242 error events . Despite the central processing unit being clearly wrong , Intel claimed that a repayment was not potential — and that was after it ab initio advise the refund to Syed first .
At this point , all we can do is waitress for a fix from Intel — a mending that turn to the issue in its entireness . By the sound of it , it had better come sooner than afterwards .
