Intel Raptor Lake Core 19 Instability Problems

THE RACE BETWEEN AMD AND INTEL has heated up in the past few years as Ryzen processors have become increasingly competitive. The amount of headroom for overclocking has shrunk in response, and it seems motherboard vendors may have tweaked settings a bit too aggressively.

- Jarred Walton

The result, according to numerous accounts on forums, has been out of VRAM errors and other instabilities. My particular PC has also experienced problems. While my own CPU issues date back over a year, it seems a number of games are triggering ‘out of VRAM’ error messages, particularly on Nvidia GPUs. But the graphics card has nothing to do with the games crashing to desktop.

RAD Tools, which provides software libraries, released a statement about crashing problems: “RAD has become aware of a problem that can cause Oodle Data decompression failures, or crashes in games built with Unreal. We believe that this is a hardware problem which affects primarily Intel 13900K and 14900K processors, less likely 13700, 14700 and other related processors as well. Only a small fraction of those processors will exhibit this behavior. The problem seems to be caused by a combination of BIOS settings and the high clock rates and power usage of these processors, leading to system instability and unpredictable behavior under heavy load.”