According to Alderon Games, 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs cause too many errors.
Back in the spring, we wrote about the fact that motherboards can cause the instability of newer and faster Intel CPUs, which the giant company from Santa Clara recently acknowledged, and since then an official response has been received explaining what kind of solution users can actually expect.
Intel is still investigating the exact causes, so no new additions have been published since then, although newer BIOSes are constantly arriving. However, the problem is becoming difficult to deal with, as the first warning to users has appeared, which was published by a development studio, drawing the attention of their customers to the fact that Intel “sells defective processors”.
Alderon Games is working on the MMO Path of Titans, which has had stability issues and the developers have analyzed them. According to their data, there have been thousands of crash reports from end-users with 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs, and official dedicated servers are also having stability issues that are crashing entire game servers. The development team also complains of frequent instability causing SSD and memory damage. In addition to these, similar problems also occur with the operators of the community servers, and decompression and memory tests not related to the game also run unsuccessfully on the aforementioned processors.
The development studio decided to replace the Intel processors with AMD in all official dedicated servers, seeing the large amount of problems, and to encourage the operators of the community servers to do the same. In addition, players will receive a message within the program in the future, which will alert them to the instability of 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs, indicating that the problem is not with the application, but with their hardware.
The founder of Alderon Games noted that in the last 3-4 months, they noticed that the CPUs they were using worked well at first, but became unstable over time. Their own tests revealed an error rate of almost 100%, and from this they conclude that it is only a matter of time before other people have problems.
For Intel, it may be more and more urgent to uncover the source of the problem, after all, it would not be good for the company if users were distrustful of the next-generation desktop series.
Source: prohardver.hu
