Tech Desk
Jul 15, 2024
Alderon Games, the creator behind the dinosaur MMO Path of Titans, is swapping its 13th and 14th-generation Intel-based servers for AMD.
The move comes on the heels of reports of ‘significant’ instability that no fixes were able to repair. Meanwhile, the new addition should help in giving a more stable gaming experience. The developer suggests the same to others hosting the game.
Alderon founder Mathew Cassels said the site has recorded ‘thousands of crashes’ via its crash reporting tools, finding that the processors can corrupt SSD and memory.
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His team says that just about all the affected CPUs ‘deteriorate over eventually failing’
Cited in Cassell’s blog post, contrary remarks have come from RAD games, the developer for Unreal Engine’s decompression tool, who stated that "only a small fraction of processors" are affected.
A new turn in this saga is the suggestion that Intel’s i9-13900K and i9-14900K CPUs are corrupting storage and memory and prompting servers to crash.
This emerged in April when the company began investigating reports of crashes on home computers using the chip.
Intel felt that improper overclocking speeds of its motherboards were the problem but that doesn’t address crashes seen on server hardware.
Earlier a Warframe developer took to the game’s forum to say ‘almost all' crashes came from driver failures in 13th and 14th-generation processors.
e did note that failures seen on a staff member’s gaming rig stopped after he installed a recent BIOS update, even though Intel said in June that the problem it addresses isn’t the root cause of instability.
