The instability issues that Intel’s 14th and 13th generation CPUs are experiencing in gaming are now starting to haunt game developers as well, with the team at Alderon Games revealing their problematic experiences with these chips.
Intel’s 14th and 13th generation CPUs’ instability issues in gaming have created a new problem in the market, with consumers starting to opt for alternatives like AMD Ryzen
Intel has had a hard time in the market with their mainstream 14th and 13th generation consumer CPUs and the instability issues they are experiencing with them are a major problem.
Our recent reporting took an in-depth look at how Intel is now rejecting RMA requests for processors even if they meet its terms and conditions, which isn’t good for the company’s reputation at all. To top it all off, Intel’s CPUs are now very prone to gaming bugs and various malfunctions compared to competitors like AMD, which would not only put the company’s market share at stake, but could also jeopardize future releases like the Arrow Lake-S series.
Another incident that has come to light is a revelation about Intel’s instability issues with Alderon Games, the studio responsible for the multiplayer dinosaur survival game Path of Titans. The studio’s founder, Matthew Cassells, says that despite implementing all of Intel’s recommended fixes, the problem persists; here are the top five areas where CPUs are failing:
- End customers: Thousands of crashes on Intel CPUs on 13th and 14th generation CPUs in our crash reporting tools.
- Official dedicated game servers: There are constant crashes and entire servers are down.
- Development Team: Developers using these CPUs often face instability while building and working on the game. It can also lead to SSD and memory corruption.
- Game server providers: Hosting community servers with persistent crash issues.
- Benchmarking tools: Decompression and memory tests unrelated to Path of Titans also fail.
Interestingly enough, Alderon Games says that they have seen a massive 100% failure rate in their tests and that Intel CPUs degrade over time, severely compromising performance. To mitigate the problem, Alderon Games has decided to switch entirely to AMD for their servers, which they claim “experiences 100x fewer crashes”. This is not good news for Intel at all; since the problem is now expanding into the professional sector of the markets, Team Blue needs to come up with a fix immediately.
- Server migration: We are moving all of our servers to AMD servers, which have 100 times fewer crashes than Intel CPUs, which were found to be defective.
- Hosting recommendations: We advise anyone hosting Path of Titans servers or selling game servers not to purchase or use 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 are currently confused about why their game crashes and what to do about it.
Additionally, Alderon Games advises its users to avoid purchasing Intel CPUs of the 14th and 13th generation. In order to make users aware of the issue, they have decided to enable in-game notifications for the general public. We hope that Intel comes up with a solution as soon as possible, either in the form of a CPU recall or a fix that would solve the issue once and for all.