Anyone with a 13th or 14th gen Intel processor experiencing any stability issues or complete failure?

[llorando]

I have a Ryzen 5000 series so I'm not affect, but just curious if anyone here is/was effected.

Yes

No

Don't have a 13th or 14th gen processor

[TheSpaceGnome]

There isn't any point to having anything that new for a cpu, games do not use the power they provide to do anything better than they did 10 years ago.

[llorando]

Actually certain processors 10 years or older lack certain instructions requires by some modern games to run, and will struggle in modern games. I upgraded from a 4th Gen i5 to Ryzen 5000, and part of the reason for upgrading was the i5 struggles in modern games.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Thats an i5, never use an i5 for gaming, use i7 or i9.

That said, yes, there are a few games that run poorly on lower end older CPUs, but almost nothing that runs poorly on an i7 from 2017 for example, provided the game is not a buggy mess.

The few games that run poorly are usually do to the graphics card not being good enough, and even then, you are fine with an older card unless you are running ray tracing (which actually makes the graphics look worse because you cannot have custom lighting to display each thing in its best lighting conditions, so you end up with too dark and too bright glarey areas )

Also, most of that extra CPU processing power is spent on things that do not count as improved user experiences. If you compare a maxed out graphics game from 10 years ago, to one of the same genre today, today's games look the same in terms of graphical capability, and performe far worse even when you have the best specs. This is because the issue isn't your specs, its things like DRM, anti-cheats, telemetry, server connections, glitches/bugs, etc.

No amount of hardware upgrades are going to fix those bogging down your game.

The few exceptions are when CPUs are used to add massive amounts of emtities or long distance LODs, but those are usually open worlds that are very buggy and poorly designed as games.

Yes, you COULD design a game that makes use of all the power in modern CPUs, but no one does, because they want those sales from people on the original xbox ones and ps4s and switches etc. So modern PC hardware is largely wasted.

Even 5 year old i7 CPUs never come close to maxing out performance on todays games, I'm able to run ark ascended with mods just fine, because its the GPU that had to be more modern, and thats only because the game's optimization and design are very poor.

[art84]

I have a i5 though haven't gamed with it though did notice Windows update having to restart my computer like 5 times for the latest update.

[llorando]

What model?

[art84]

13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13450HX (20 MB cache, 10 cores, up to 4.60 GHz Turbo)

Dell G15

[llorando]

From all the reports I've seen, laptops aren't too affected, mainly ones with i9s and i7s. Tho it could change as on the desktop side it was originally i9s and i7s affected, and now some i5s. Intel is working on a microcode update to fix the problem.