Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown
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Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown

Intel’s not having a good time with gamers right now, with the company still struggling to find the root cause of game instability on its CPUs, and now a game dev has issued a no-nonsense smackdown about Intel CPU game crashes on its official blog. In a piece titled “Intel is selling defective 13-14th gen CPUs,” Matthew Cassells, founder of Alderon Games, said he was even swapping out all its game servers from Intel to AMD hardware as a result, and anyone else hosting game servers to do the same. Gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for a number of months now, with the problem appearing to particularly affect games based on the Unreal engine. In particular, this stability issue seems to affect the best gaming CPU from Intel right now, the Core i9 14900K, with common error messages reporting that the game is out of video memory when it’s compiling shaders, even if your graphics card has an enormous amount of VRAM. Continue reading Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review