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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Christopher Harper

Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates

Official Warframe screenshot from its Steam page.

The water for Intel keeps getting hotter amidst ongoing 13th Gen and 14th Gen CPU crashing issues. On July 9, Warframe developers added to the fire by reporting both Warframe player crash statistics and even a developer who was experiencing the same issue. As noted by the Warframe team, the staff member in question wasn't overclocking and was even using a new PC, but even the most basic in-game tasks resulted in hard crashes.

Surprisingly, stress testing similar machines across the Warframe dev team did not show similar results. But spurred by an Intel report, the Warframe dev team applied a BIOS update to the sole team member who couldn't play the game without crashing, and a BIOS update at least seemed to help. So, there's a non-zero chance that the statistics we've shared below may be reduced by some prudent BIOS updates from 13th and 14th Generation Intel CPU users— but there's likely more to this story, based on what we already know.

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