Alderon Games, developer of dinosaur MMO Titan’s Path, said it was replacing Intel 13th and 14th generation servers with AMD and urged other companies hosting gaming servers to do the same. Alderon founder Matthew Cassells wrote in a blog post last week that the developer was experiencing “severe” instability issues that none of the fixes so far had reversed.
Cassel wrote that Alderon has logged “thousands of crashes” on gamers’ CPUs using its crash reporting tool, and said the processors can also damage SSDs and memory. He added that in his team’s experience, 100% of affected CPUs “will deteriorate over time and eventually fail.” In contrast, RAD Game Tools, the maker of Unreal Engine decompression tools cited in Cassells’ blog, said “only a small percentage” of processors are affected.
Earlier this week, a War Armor The developer wrote on the gaming forum that “almost all” of the crashes it recorded came from driver glitches on 13th and 14th generation Intel processors. He did note that one staff member’s gaming rig stopped malfunctioning after installing the latest BIOS update, although Intel said in June that the issue it fixed was not the root cause of the instability.
