The first reports of instability issues with Intel's 13th Gen desktop CPUs began to appear in late 2022, just a few months after the models came out. Those issues persisted, and over time, users reported experiencing unexpected, sudden crashes on PCs equipped with the company's 14th Gen CPUs as well. Now, Intel has Announced which has finally found the reason why its 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors have been causing crashes and letting users down, and is promising to roll out a fix next month.
In its announcement, Intel said that based on a thorough analysis of the processors that had been returned to the company, it had determined that the high operating voltage was causing the instability issues. This is apparently because a microcode algorithm (microcodes, or machine codes, are sets of hardware-level instructions) has been sending incorrect voltage requests to the processor.
Intel has promised to release a microcode patch to address the “root cause of high voltage exposure.” The patch is still being validated to ensure it can address all “instability scenarios reported to Intel,” but the company aims to release it in mid-August.
As wccf technology Notes: While Intel CPUs have been causing problems for users for at least a year and a half, x.com/Sebasti66855537/status/1760034497045623121″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:post on x by Sebastian Castellanos;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Post about x by Sebastian Castellanos In February, Castellanos brought the issue into the spotlight. Castellanos wrote that there was a “worrying trend” of 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs having stability issues with Unreal Engine 4 and 5 games, such as Fortnite and The Hogwarts LegacyHe also noted that the problem seems to affect mainly high-end models and is linked to a Steam Community DiscussionThe user who wrote the Steam post wanted to warn those experiencing “insufficient video memory when attempting to allocate a render resource” errors that their CPU was at fault. They also included links to several Reddit threads with people experiencing the same issue who had determined that their problem was due to their Intel CPUs.
Most recently, independent studio Alderon Games posted a post about “encountering significant issues with Intel CPU stability” while developing their multiplayer dinosaur survival game Path of TitansFounder Matthew Cassells said the studio found the issue affecting end-clients, dedicated game servers, developer computers, game server vendors, and even benchmarking tools using Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen CPUs. Cassells added that even CPUs that initially perform well deteriorate and eventually fail, based on the company’s observations. “The failure rate we’ve observed in our own testing is nearly 100 percent,” the studio’s post reads, “indicating that it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.”
