Intel Reveals Games Not Working With Alder Lake – And Interim Fix

In short: While it seems like Intel’s Alder Lake processors will finally have some serious competition with AMD Ryzen chips, some games don’t work with the new team blue processors. But patches are coming soon and there is a workaround that involves disabling Alder Lake efficiency cores.

We were very impressed with what we’ve seen so far in Alder Lake, and we gave the Core i9-12900K and Core i7-12700KF 90 points. The chips also have excellent gaming performance, but early adopters will find that some titles, including Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, fail to load due to issues with digital rights management (DRM) software.

Intel explains that the issue stems from the DRM software incorrectly recognizing the effective cores (E-cores) of Alder Lake as a different system. Doing so can prevent games from starting, cause crashes or quit unexpectedly during games.

Intel released list games affected by the Alder Lake / DRM issue; If you’re using Windows 10 instead of Windows 11. The company says it will release a Windows 11 update patch sometime in mid-November to address the issues in bold, and is working with the developers to fix it for the rest of the games.

Windows 11

• Hymn
• Bravely Default 2
• Fishing Simulator: World
• Football Manager 2019
• Football Manager Touch 2019
• Football Manager 2020
• Football Manager Touch 2020
• The Legend of Man
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Tony Hawks, Professional Skater 1 & 2
• Warhammer I
• Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
• Far cry primal
• Fernbus Simulator
• For honor
• Lost at random
• Crazy 22
• Cannibal
• Need for Speed ​​- Hot Pursuit Remastered
• The sea of ​​loneliness
• Star Wars: Fallen Jedi Order
• Tourist Bus Simulator

Window 10

• All of the above games plus
• Ace Combat 7
• Assassins creed odyssey
• Assassins Creed Origins
• Code vein
• Electronic Football 2021
• F1 2019
• Far cry new dawn
• FIFA 19
• FIFA 20
• Football Manager 2021
• Football Manager Touch 2021
• Breakpoint Ghost Recon
• Ghost recon wildlands
• Immortals Phoenix Sunrise
• Just Reason 4
• Life is Strange 2
• Crazy 21
• Monopoly Plus
• Thirst for the speed of heat
• Scott Pilgrim against the world
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Shinobi Striker
• Soulcalibur VI
• Starlink
• Sonic Racing Team
• Total War Saga – Three Kingdoms
• Sim World Train
• Sim World Train 2
• Wolfenstein Youngblood

Fortunately, there is a way to avoid this problem before the hotfix is ​​released. This includes the ability Legacy game compatibility modewhich will put E-cores in standby mode during games. Here’s how to enable this feature:

1. Activation system and enter the system BIOS settings.

2. Give opportunity switch Legacy game compatibility mode To ON (one time) in the BIOS.

3. Save The BIOS setting will change and exit.

4. Boot in the OS.

5. Switch Lock keyboard scrolling key ON…

6. Launch touched on the name of the game.

7. Switch Lock keyboard scrolling key OFF after the end of the game name.