An anonymous reader cites a report from Ars Technica. Owners of Intel's latest 13th and 14th generation Core i9 desktop processors have noticed an increase in game crashes in recent months. This has been happening with games like The Finals, Fortnite, and Tekken 8, to the point where Epic Games has issued a support notice encouraging Intel Core i9 13900K and 14900K owners to adjust his BIOS settings. Ta. Intel currently says it is investigating the report. “Intel is aware of issues that occur when performing certain tasks on 13th and 14th Generation Core processors for desktop PCs and is working with leading affiliates to analyze them.” a spokesperson said in a statement to ZDNet Korea.
The severity of the crash varies by game, with some titles causing an “out of memory” error, others simply exiting to the desktop, and some locking up your machine completely. Most of the affected games seem to be based on his Unreal Engine, which could indicate stability issues that Intel needs to address. The only workaround that seems to improve stability is to manually downclock or lower the voltage on the Intel processor. Epic Games suggested changing his SVID behavior to Intel Fail Safe in his BIOS settings on Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI motherboards. Custom PC Builder Power GPU Recommendation to The performance core ratio limit has been reduced and seems to help with stability in certain games.
