Epic Games Releases Guidelines For “Frequent Crashes” In Fortnite, Associated With Intel’s 14th Gen & 13th Gen CPUs

Epic Games Releases Guidelines For "Frequent Crashes" In Fortnite, Associated With Intel 14th Gen & 13th Gen CPUs 1

Epic Games has released a guideline for users facing "frequent crashes" with Intel's 14th Gen & 13th Gen CPUs within Fortnite, depicting that the instability issue is spreading rapidly.

The gaming industry has started seeing the effects of Intel's instability issues, as individual studios have elevated the issue to their respective users. Recently, we saw Alderon Games advising their customers to switch to AMD amid the uncertainties involved within Intel's camp, and along with them, the staff at Warframe gave us a detailed look at how Intel's processors are resulting in widespread gaming crashes, with 14th Gen & 13th Gen CPUs being the primary culprits.

The issue isn't specific to certain titles, as now Epic Games has released a guideline for users experiencing in-game crashes at Fortnite, specific to Core i9-13900K/KF/KS or Core i9-14900K/KF/KS SKUs according to them. Here's how Epic Games advises its users to mitigate the instability problems:

We are aware of an issue where Fortnite crashes frequently on i9-13900K/KF/KS or i9-14900K/KF/KS CPUs.

Determine the manufacturer of your Motherboard:

Press and hold the Windows key on your keyboard.

Press the R key. The Run window will open.

In the text field type: msinfo32

Press the Enter key. MSinfo will open.

Select System Summary.

Find BaseBoard Manufacturer.

If the manufacturer is ASUS, Gigabyte or MSI continue to the next set of steps. If the manufacturer is not one of these please contact Epic Player Support by clicking on the Contact Us button below.

Access your BIOS. On Asus: [Notebook/Desktop/AIO] How to enter the BIOS configuration On Gigabyte: How to enter the Dual BIOS setting? On MSI: [Motherboard] Motherboard BIOS Function Setup and Introduction

Select Advanced Mode. Typically by pressing the F7 key.

Select the AI Tweaker tab or the Extreme Tweaker tab.

Change SVID Behavior setting to Intel Fail Safe.

Save Changes and Exit.

This fix will implement the Intel Baseline default settings, which reverts the CPU to Intel's factory default settings by lowering power limits and improving stability in games. We have already covered this fix in depth previously, and while implementing baseline settings does fix the issue to a certain extent, it does come with massive performance degradation, and in some cases, the performance has dropped down more than 10%, which is certainly huge.

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Well, it looks like, for now, all the remedies presented by Intel either do not solve the problem or result in some sort of compromise, whether it is in performance or the general quality of experience. The situation is bizarre at the moment, and given that Arrow Lake-S desktop CPU release is right around the corner, Team Blue needs to find a solution quickly.