Game developer says Intel should recall its defective, crash-prone CPUs
Intel's latest high-end CPUs cause crashes and instability, forcing Alderon Games to switch to AMD processors and call for a recall.
Alderon Games founder Matthew Cassells has stated that recent high-end Intel processors cause significant problems, including crashes, instability, and memory corruption. These issues occur despite all released microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates, affecting end customers, dedicated game servers, developers, and benchmarking tools.
The multiplayer survival game Path of Titans experienced thousands of crashes from users with Intel 13th/14th-gen CPUs, and even official servers required costly reboots. The development team, as well as community-managed servers, faced instability on these CPUs, leading to frequent SSD and memory failures.
To mitigate these problems, Alderon Games transitioned all servers to AMD processors, reducing crashes by 100-fold. The studio advises Path of Titans community server hosts to avoid Intel processors and informs users about the issues through a pop-up message in the game. Intel, still investigating the instability, might need to enact a consumer recall akin to its 1994 Pentium FDIV bug resolution.