Random, unpredictable crashes. Please help.

[Anida]

If it would be a general memory leak then everyone would experience it. Memory leaks usually do not make a difference between Raptor Lake- and other CPUs.

There is one thing you could try:
https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm

"A reportedly successful workaround for many people is to use Intel XTU and lower the Performance Core multiplier from x55 to x54 or x53. Apparently, affected titles may then crash one more time during load immediately after, but will work afterwards (we have not been able to confirm this ourselves). Using XTU is likely the quickest and easiest way to go and doesn't even require rebooting to try different settings, but you might need to reapply it after every start if you don't save the profile. (Alternatively, set the P-core multiplier in the BIOS instead.)"



Cheers

I said programming issues, "Commonly called memory leak, but there is so much more going on here."

GW2 is known for it repetitive issues with memory leaks, yet not all players experience problems with it. So your statement here isn't really paramount.

I'm not downloading a third party software to get a work around. I've never heard of Intel XYU. I'm not techy, so your suggestions aren't something I can do. SE just needs to fix what they broke. The game ran wonderfully on my PC on highest settings before DT. Now it's just annoying to try to play even after lowering my settings.

[NightHour]

I said programming issues, "Commonly called memory leak, but there is so much more going on here."

GW2 is known for it repetitive issues with memory leaks, yet not all players experience problems with it. So your statement here isn't really paramount.

I'm not downloading a third party software to get a work around. I've never heard of Intel XYU. I'm not techy, so your suggestions aren't something I can do. SE just needs to fix what they broke. The game ran wonderfully on my PC on highest settings before DT. Now it's just annoying to try to play even after lowering my settings.

"I'm not prepared to troubleshoot so I'll blame the game anyway!"

I'm not denying Dawntrail has it's issues but people are trying to help you troubleshoot.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I used that Extreme Tuning Utility tool to bump it down 2 yesterday and since then I have not crashed. However what ive been reading about these CPUs is that they are eventually going to fail, it just happened to magically coincide with the release of DT because now suddenly im getting other problems with my PC.

Problem is Intel's been pushing things like Power and Thermal limits to the absolute maximum just to look better than AMD in synthetic benchmarks and now the CPU's are either dying or unable to run stable.

Look at the 14900K for example - That CPU can pull in excess of 300W (That's almost as much power as an RTX 4080 pulls) and is still slower in gaming than the AMD 7800X3D which pulls 120W.


AMD CPU users don't seem to be having these issues, most if not all of the threads I've seen have one of the following processors



13600K
13700 / 13700F / 13700K / 13700KF
13900K / 13900KF
14700K / 14700KF
14900K / 14900KF


This is not just affecting gamers, it's also affecting developers and other enterprise solutions that utilize these CPU's.


The failure rate for these chips is estimated to be 50%+

[Larirawiel]

Problem is Intel's been pushing things like Power and Thermal limits to the absolute maximum just to look better than AMD in synthetic benchmarks and now the CPU's are either dying or unable to run stable.

It seems, that the reason for the CPU failures is a different one. A game dev admits, that even the 13700T is affected. And the T-version is an underclocked version of the 13700. It boosts only up to 4,9 GHz.

Steve from Gamers Nexus meant in a recent video, that he got some informations what the reason is. But they try to verify it first.


Cheers