Complaints regarding crashing 13th and 14th generation Intel CPUs now have data backing them up

Alderon Games, developer of the dinosaur MMO Path of Titans, announced that it is replacing its servers based on 13th and 14th generation Intel processors with AMD servers and is encouraging other game server hosts to do the same. The developer had “serious” instability issues that no patch had yet resolved, Alderon founder Matthew Cassells wrote in a blog post last week.

Cassells wrote that Alderon had recorded thousands of obstacles in the game processor using a disability device report, and that the processor could ruin the SSD and memory. According to his team experience, 100 % of the injured processor added that "it worsened over time and eventually failed." On the contrary, Cassels quotes a blog, states that only a small amount of processors are "influenced" by a manufacturer of Rad Unreal Engine Game Tools. The suggestion that Intel's i9-13900K and i9-14900K processors corrupt storage and memory, causing servers using them to crash, marks a new twist in the story, which began in April when the company investigated game crashes on personal computers that used these chips. Intel at one point cited improperly overclocked motherboards as the apparent cause, but as Level1Techs points out in the video above, this does not take into account the crashes seen on server hardware, which must be configured more conservatively.

Earlier this week, a Warframe developer posted on the game's forums that "nearly all" of the reported crashes were due to a driver fault on 13th and 14th generation Intel processors. He noted that the crashes observed on employee consoles stopped after installing a recent BIOS update, though Intel announced in June that the fixed issue was not the root cause of the instability.