Alderon Games, a video game studio, alleges that Intel is selling defective CPUs to consumers. They have now obtained the necessary data to substantiate their claims. Path of Titans, a multiplayer dinosaur survival game, is presently in development by the Alderon Games team.
The developer has reported thousands of continuous failures that cause their game servers to go offline. The majority of these servers are powered by Intel 13th and 14th generation processors. The problems extend beyond crashes, frequently resulting in memory corruption and instability, which can compromise critical data on SSDs. Furthermore, memory and decompression evaluations that are not associated with Path of Titans are also failing.
The developer has been compelled to abandon Intel’s most recent processors (13th and 14th Gen) as a result of stability issues and is encouraging others to do the same. Matthew Cassells, the studio’s proprietor, stated in a blog post that all of the CPUs they evaluated ultimately began to malfunction.
Nevertheless, it is crucial to acknowledge that RAD Game Tools, a company that develops tools for the Unreal Engine (the game engine of Path of Titans), suggests that the issue may be restricted to a small number of processors.
Transitioning to AMD
Alderon Games is not taking any chances, despite the fact that the precise nature of the issue is still uncertain. They are transitioning their servers to AMD processors and are encouraging other servers that host Path of Titans to do the same.
The controversy concerning Intel’s most recent i9 processors (13th and 14th Gen) continues to develop. Reports of game failures on residential PCs in April have evolved into apprehensions regarding server stability.
What is the cause of the malfunctioning of these processors?
Although Intel initially attributed the failures of residential PCs to defective overclocking settings on motherboards, this explanation is not valid for server hardware. Servers generally operate with more conservative settings to prioritize stability, which renders overclocking issues unlikely.
The ongoing issues with Intel’s most recent processors were addressed by a developer from Digital Extremes, the studio responsible for Warframe. In a forum post, they disclosed that their data indicates that “almost all” errors were caused by driver malfunctions in these CPUs.
