Intel processors crashing Unreal engine games (and others)

[DAPUNISHER]

As long as Intel keeps honoring RMAs and issuing refunds when requested, it's a manageable PR mess. Despite the infamous Xbox 360 RROD debacle, the console was wildly popular and led the PS3 until near the end of the generation. MS took over a billion dollar hit on that in unadjusted dollars to service affected owners. That's how you retain customers; makes things right as fast and easy as possible. This won't get anywhere close to that level of losses.

 

[igor_kavinski]

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/199dyud/i914900k_stock_vs_undervolted_peak_power

I like this quote:

It's a monster chip but getting them stable or just running at sensible settings can be an absolute fustercluck with some of the default motherboard settings. To me it seems like intel is at the very edge of "out of the box" stability with some batches+motherboard combinations.

Intel has a lovely Blender Blunder thread on their forums too!

Blender 4.0.2 CPU rendering is causing multiple 14900k users to BSOD

Hi, about a week ago someone posted a thread about blender crashing and blue screening on their 14900k, (https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/Critical-Overheating-Issues-with-i9-14900K-PC-Crashes/m-p/1563723/thread-id/68588) I'm posting because this is not an isolated issue, over the past...

community.intel.com

Spoiler: Quotes quotes quotes!

As for wert5465, from the symptoms you mention, it could be an overheating issue. I highly recommend creating a new thread so we can properly address the issue that you are experiencing.

Dear moderator, why should I create a separate topic, judging by most of the messages here, everyone is overheating!

1. In BIOS, select "OC," select "CPU Core Voltage Mode," select "Offset Mode," select "+(by PWM)", .Then, adjust the voltage until the system is stable. We recommend not exceeding 0.025V for a single increase.
2. In BIOS, select "OC," select "DigitALL Power," change "CPU Loadline Calibration Control," . We recommend starting from "Mode 7" to a lower value until the system is stable.

Note: After trying out 1 or 2, run the XTU test again and see if the AVX2 test can pass. You may download Intel XTU at this link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-XTU.html. After that, try running Blender 4.0.2 to see if the crash will occur again.

I9 14900k Seems to be my last intel procesor i would EVER buy. such a Scam of a proccesor. not only blender is affected, there are tons of issues in gaming too. Dx12 crashes, fornite is unable to run and so many. intel needs to pull back 14900k.

This is happening to me and it's extremely frustrating. It is affecting my profession Have invested 5000$ and facing this hardware issue. I tested my PC and it is definitely blender (any version) and its incompatibility with the 14900k that's causing the issue. I really hope it gets looked into asap. Please intel look after it. Thanks

Hello guys. I got the solution. I am facing the same issue with my i9 14th gen and I fix this.
Open Device Manager -> disable Intel UHD Graphics 770 and run System on my Nvidia graphics card. and it working very well. now my blender not crashing while rendering.

Could this be THE solution???

 

[Mopetar]

Sounds like a temporary bandaid if the GPU is what is pushing it over the edge.

 

[coercitiv]

I read through the thread @igor_kavinski posted and... damn: they really are leaving their best customers out in the cold.

The golden post from Intel support is this one though:

We do have some troubleshooting steps here that you can try. Please try the following steps, as I can see you are using an MSI motherboard:

1. In BIOS, select "OC," select "CPU Core Voltage Mode," select "Offset Mode," select "+(by PWM)", .Then, adjust the voltage until the system is stable. We recommend not exceeding 0.025V for a single increase.
2. In BIOS, select "OC," select "DigitALL Power," change "CPU Loadline Calibration Control," . We recommend starting from "Mode 7" to a lower value until the system is stable.

Note: After trying out 1 or 2, run the XTU test again and see if the AVX2 test can pass. You may download Intel XTU at this link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-XTU.html. After that, try running Blender 4.0.2 to see if the crash will occur again.

They are advising their users to blindly bump up Vcore until system seems stable, and I say blindly because they might not even know point (1) and (2) will influence each other. I guess that's the premium i9 experience.