Warframe staff reveals that Intel’s 14th and 13th generation processors are responsible for the instability issues, with the i9-13900K taking up a significant portion of them

Warframe creators have shared their findings on Intel CPU instability issues, revealing that 14th and 13th generation chips are responsible for major crashes in the game.

Intel’s 14th and 13th Gen CPUs Are Starting to Disrupt the Gaming Industry With Frequent Crashes and Unstable Performance, Warframe Creators Share Their Findings

Well, it seems that the Intel 14th and 13th generation processor fiasco has now gone beyond individual communities, as game developers have started talking about how Intel’s Core i9 chips have significantly inconvenienced their user base.

Recently, we reported on a reveal from Alderon Games, where the studio’s founder urged its users to switch to alternative processors, such as AMD’s, to avoid experiencing game crashes and unstable performance. Now, the developers behind Warframe have revealed the percentage of Intel processors responsible for game crashes, and it doesn’t look good.

Everything was fine for us and yet it kept crashing while doing the most basic things like launching the game and flying to a mission.

Since the crash wasn’t in our code, it was hard to guess what we might be doing wrong, but looking at the reports, we noticed that these crashes tended to happen when the graphics driver was working very hard on all the CPU cores. We figured this was a particularly power-hungry state for the CPU, and remembered a recent report from Intel that suggested a BIOS update might help.

via Warframe forums

Warframe developers compiled data from multiple Intel processors, which showed the error code “nvgpucomp64.dll”, which is an NVIDIA driver error state, likely occurring when the processor is in a “power hungry” state and is being pushed to its limits. The data showed that Intel’s Core i9-13900K was responsible for 29.5% of game crashes with the error code, while the Core i9-14900K and Core i9-14900KF accounted for up to 34% combined. The rest of the share was found across multiple models, such as the Core i7-14700K, but the common trend was that 13th and 14th generation processors were vulnerable to the issue.

Interestingly, a Warframe staff member also encountered the same error code. So they decided to debug the issue, only to discover that the crashes were associated with the integrated Intel CPU, as the error code refers to a state where the GPU is “working very hard on all CPU cores”, meaning that the power consumption levels of the integrated CPU were off the charts. To mitigate the issue, people implemented Intel’s recommended BIOS update, which resolved the issue to some extent.

For now, Warframe has advised its users to leave their Intel CPU alone if it’s working fine, and if you’re “lucky” enough not to have the affected processors and are still experiencing the same error code, the developers are pushing out a fix soon. Well, it seems like a huge wave of problems is headed Intel’s way, whether it’s in the form of consumer distrust or even adoption of the upcoming processors. For AMD, well, it might turn out to be a “blessing in disguise,” given that the internet is now suggesting a switch to Team Red.