Intel’s not having time with players proper now, with the corporate nonetheless struggling to seek out the basis reason for recreation instability on its CPUs, and now a recreation dev has issued a no-nonsense smackdown about Intel CPU recreation crashes on its official weblog. In a chunk titled “Intel is promoting faulty 13-14th gen CPUs,” Matthew Cassells, founding father of Alderon Video games, stated he was even swapping out all its recreation servers from Intel to AMD {hardware} consequently, and anybody else internet hosting recreation servers to do the identical.
Avid gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for plenty of months now, with the issue showing to significantly have an effect on video games primarily based on the Unreal engine. Specifically, this stability situation appears to have an effect on the perfect gaming CPU from Intel proper now, the Core i9 14900K, with frequent error messages reporting that the sport is out of video reminiscence when it’s compiling shaders, even when your graphics card has an infinite quantity of VRAM.
It’s this similar situation that reared its head once more lately with the latest First Descendant out of video reminiscence drawback, and Cassells says it’s the identical state of affairs with Alderon Video games. Avid gamers are “receiving deceptive error messages about operating out of video driver reminiscence,” he says, “regardless of having enough reminiscence.”
Alderon Video games is an indie studio that makes Path of Titans, an MMO survival recreation the place you possibly can play as dinosaurs, and the sport seems to have been bitten exhausting by Intel stability points. In accordance with Cassells, the studio’s crash reporting instruments element “1000’s of crashes on thirteenth and 14th Gen Intel CPUs” from players taking part in the sport.
Not solely that, however Intel’s newest CPUs are additionally apparently inflicting loads of hassle for Alderon Video games at its personal finish. On the weblog, Cassells says that “builders utilizing these CPUs face frequent instability whereas constructing and dealing on the sport,” including that “it might additionally trigger SSD and reminiscence corruption.” In the meantime, the sport’s official devoted servers are apparently “experiencing fixed crashes, taking total servers down.”
Cassells says that Alderon has discovered Intel chips often work nicely at first, however then “deteriorate over time.” In a damning evaluation of the studio’s expertise with Intel CPUs, Cassells claims that “the failure fee we’ve got noticed from our personal testing is sort of 100%, indicating it’s solely a matter of time earlier than affected CPUs fail.”
In accordance with Cassells, Alderon is now altering the {hardware} in its recreation servers to make use of AMD CPUs, as an alternative of Intel chips, saying that the brand new AMD processors “expertise 100 instances fewer crashes in comparison with Intel CPUs that have been discovered to be faulty.” He additionally says that Alderon advises anybody “internet hosting Path of Titans servers or promoting recreation servers to keep away from buying or utilizing thirteenth and 14th gen Intel CPUs.”
If you wish to keep away from all this trouble, our greatest recommendation proper now could be to purchase certainly one of AMD’s CPUs as an alternative. As you’ll see in your AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D assessment, this eight-core CPU isn’t simply cheaper than the Core i9 14900K, but it surely’s additionally sooner in most of our recreation assessments.
