Fast Technology reported on April 9, according to South Korean media reports, a large number of players have recently reacted that using 13/14th generation Core i9 series processors to play games such as "Tekken 8" will focus on crashing, and Intel has begun to investigate.
Since the end of February, many people have been prompted to lack of video memory when playing Tekken 8, and then the game was suddenly forced to close.
This hint raises doubts about graphics card support or compatibility issues at first, but this is true even for high-end graphics cards with large video memory, and almost always on 13th/14th Gen Core i9 platforms.
In fact, Tekken 8 isn't the only thing that goes wrong, Ultimate Showdown, Battlefield 2042, Legacy 2, Fallen Lords, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon, Far Bounds, Overwatch 2, P's Lies, etc., all of which are based on Unreal Engine.
The processors involve high-end models such as the i9-14900K, i9-14900KF, i9-13900K, and even the latest i9-14900KS with a record frequency of 6.2GHz is also present, and some have also reported that the i7-14700K is also present.
In addition to the game crashes, many players have reported that everything works fine with these processors for the first few months, and then there are frequent system crashes, freezes, blue screens, and it is useless to reinstall the system, and even the process of reinstalling will have a blue screen.
Some stores revealed that about 10 customers ask for a change in processors every day.
After groping, someone found a temporary solution, that is, through the Intel XTU official overclocking tool, pull down the frequency of the P-core performance core, such as doubling 55x to 53x, it is normal.
Therefore, it is speculated that the frequency and voltage of these two generations of i9 may be too high, and stability cannot be guaranteed after long-term operation.