In a nutshell: Are you utilizing one in every of Intel’s top-end Thirteenth-gen or 14-gen processors and have observed your video games are crashing so much? It is an issue that primarily impacts Unreal Engine titles, and a division of Epic Video games, together with Nvidia and gaming studios, are pointing the finger squarely at Group Blue’s scorching and power-hungry {hardware}.
There have been a number of experiences of Core i9-13900K and Core i7-14900K processor customers experiencing crashes in video games that present an ‘out of video reminiscence’ error. The difficulty can also be being skilled by these utilizing the Core i9-13700 and Core i7-14700.
A prolonged put up from Epic-owned RAD, the corporate behind the Bink video codec and Oodle information compression know-how, explains that the issue is a mix of BIOS settings and the excessive clock speeds and energy utilization of Intel’s processors. A combo that ends in system instability and unpredictable habits below heavy load.
RAD emphasizes that there are not any software program bugs in Oodle or Unreal inflicting this subject. It says “overly optimistic BIOS settings” are inflicting a small share of processors to exit of their purposeful vary of clock price and energy draw below excessive load, and execute directions incorrectly.
The crashing seems to be affecting Unreal Engine video games greater than others as a consequence of Oodle Knowledge decompression performing further integrity checks, leading to error messages, RAD states. The error has additionally been showing in software program akin to CineBench, Prime95, and Handbrake.
The issue is not a brand new one. Fatshark, developer of Vermintide 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, noted two months in the past that gamers with the Intel i9-13900K/i7-13700K CPUs are inclined to those crashes, and {that a} workaround was to underclock the Efficiency Core velocity utilizing Intel Excessive Tuning Utility (XTU), from x55 to x53. Gearbox, in the meantime, identified the ‘out of video reminiscence’ crash on some Thirteenth-gen CPUs in Remnant 2 final August. Once more, the answer was to take away any overclocks or use Intel (XTU), although making adjustments within the BIOS will make them stick after a reset, in contrast to XTU.
Lots of people are seeing crashes throughout the shader compilation course of. It is one thing that this author has additionally skilled; I discovered Star Wars: Jedi Survivor and Lies of P would not get previous this stage till I dialled again the overclocking to inventory settings. Disabling particular motherboard OC options akin to Asus’ MultiCore Enhancement also can assist, although the issue has additionally been affecting individuals operating video games at inventory.
Tom’s {Hardware} carried out its personal investigation and located the difficulty is expounded to the excessive default energy and present limits that some motherboards could use.
Downclocking, decreasing the facility/present limits, and undervolting CPUs is not one thing most individuals are going to be completely satisfied about, partly as a result of potential efficiency impacts. Nevertheless it does seem that solely a comparatively small variety of Thirteenth/14th-Gen Core i9/i7 customers are experiencing the issue.
