Game developer accuses Intel of marketing 'defective' Raptor Lake processors

The game developer says they have enough of Intel's 13th and 14th generation Core microprocessors to call them "bugged".

Alderon Games, an independent development studio based in Australia, publicly expressed its displeasure with Intel's latest chips in an article titled "Intel sells broken 13th-14th generation CPUs" by studio founder Matthew Cassel.

"My team at Alderon Games was working on Path of the Titans, a multiplayer dinosaur survival game, and they were having big problems with Intel CPU stability," he said. "These issues, including crashes, instability, and memory corruption, are limited to 13th and 14th generation processors. Despite releasing all microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates, the issues remain unresolved."

Stability issues with Raptor Lake processors first gained widespread attention in February and were linked to the release of the first 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs in late 2022. Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K, Intel high-end models seem to be the most affected, and there are some reports that the neckline core i7-13700K and Core i7-14700K are also problems.

One of the signs of the narrative of these stability problems at Lake Raptor is the "out of video memory" error message that appears as Fortnite in games. Cassell says his study has received thousands of emergency reports from players using gene chips on 13th and 14th, and that his development team has personally experienced "frequent instability" on their own PCs led by Raptor. Studio -founder says the servers running with these Intel CPU have experienced a "permanent accident."

Intel has tried to solve these problems with a new microcode that is spread through Bo -BIOS updates and has asked motherboard manufacturers by default not to activate extreme power modes.

For example, in some cases, the MSI basic card sets a power limit of 4,096 watts and 512 amps; No Intel CPU will ever use all this power, but it more or less prevents the chip automatic frequencies -restrictions on fixing technology, and it seems to cause crashes. However, there are still stability issues and Intel hasn't fully explained the cause.

"Intel and its partners continue to investigate user reports of instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors," The Register said. "We appreciate the Intel community's patience with this matter and will share further details of the investigation as soon as possible. In the meantime, we continue to advise customers experiencing these issues to contact Intel Customer Support for further action on their Intel Core 13 step or 14 generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors.

Alderon Games says we're switching to AMD instead of buying Raptor Lake

But Cassels believes that there is a more important problem here than just instability, which is addressed by motherboard configurations. "Over the last 3-4 months, we have observed that CPUs that initially performed well degraded over time and eventually failed," he claimed. "The failure rate we've observed from our own testing is close to 100%, suggesting it's only a matter of time before the affected CPU fails."

By the way, this vulture happened to give away his old Intel Core i9-13900K to an acquaintance a few weeks ago, and now it doesn't work anymore. This 13900K is designed for gaming PCs with lower-end motherboards that aren't designed to maximize the chip's power consumption. It used to work well on SSD and GPU tests with no issues.

Alderon Games has apparently lost its patience with Raptor Lake CPUs and says it\'s switching all of its servers to AMD processors, as they apparently \"experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel CPUs that were found to be defective.\"

Cassells also recommends players, whether they\'re hosting their own servers or just playing a game, to avoid Raptor Lake processors. The dev has even implemented an in-game notification to tell its users that 13th and 14th-gen Intel chips are no good.