Complaints about Intel 13th and 14th Gen processor crashes now have data to back them up

Alderon Games, the maker of Online multiplayer dinosaur game The Path of TitansGameSpy says it will replace its 13th and 14th Gen Intel-based servers with AMD ones and is urging other companies that host game servers to do the same. The developer has been experiencing “significant” instability issues that no fixes have been able to fix so far, Alderon founder Matthew Cassels wrote: In last week’s blog post.

Cassels wrote that Alderon has logged “thousands of crashes” on players’ CPUs using its crash reporting tools, and says the processors can also damage SSDs and memory. He added that in his team’s experience, 100% of affected CPUs “degrade over time and eventually fail.” In contrast, RAD Game Tools, the maker of the Unreal Engine decompression tool that Cassels cited in the blog post, says that Only a “small fraction” of processors are affected.

Earlier in the week, Frame war Developer Written in the game forums “All of the crashes he recorded were caused by driver glitches on 13th and 14th Gen Intel processors. He also noted that the crashes seen on one team member’s gaming machine stopped after he installed a new driver.” BIOS updateAlthough Intel said in June that the issue it was addressing was not the root cause of the instability.