u/guyFCR

RPG? Platformer? Dungeon crawler? Something else?

What do you think? :D

I just came back to the game a couple weeks ago after a year break, and now there's all these fancy looking environment that in my humble opinion don't fit the original art direction at tall.

The original art direction was very clean, almost low poly. I personnaly really enjoy it. And the new very detailed environment just don't fit.

Does anybody else feel this way?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice from people who have been following the Intel 13th/14th gen situation more closely.

My current setup:

• Intel i7-14700KF
• MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi
• BIOS: E7D98IMS.HB0
• Current microcode: 0x12C
• PC was bought prebuilt from an integrator in October 2025.

I only recently found out about the degradation issues affecting some 13th and 14th gen Intel CPUs. Since then I've been checking my system to make sure everything looks healthy. From what I understand the 0x12C microcode already solves most of the instability issues.

I've been using this PC for gaming and music production for about 9 months (~700hrs) without any issue whatsoever.

Here are the values I measured while playing a demanding game in 1080p :

• Vcore: ~1.43 V (pretty much constant)
• CPU Package Power: ~88 W average, ~147 W max
• CPU temperature: 65-75°C
• No thermal throttling
• No crashes, BSODs or instability.

After reading a bit, I tried lowering CPU Lite Load in the BIOS. I also dropped PL1 from 253W to 175W, and PL2 from 253W to 225W. 

After that:

• Vcore dropped to around 1.34 V under load
• Temperatures went down a few degrees
• Performance seems unchanged
• Still completely stable after gaming.

So far I'm pretty happy with the result.

Now I'm wondering whether it's actually worth updating my BIOS to get the microcode 0x12F.

From what I've read:

• 0x12F seems to mostly improve specific cases related to long uptime / light workloads.
• The benefits over 0x12C don't seem huge for a typical gaming PC.
• I've also seen several people reporting that after updating they had to retune their undervolt, lost some undervolting headroom, or even experienced new instability.

Updating the BIOS isn't something I particularly enjoy doing, so if there's no real benefit I'd rather avoid it.

My questions are:

1. Would you stay on 0x12C in my situation, or would you still update to 0x12F?
2. Have you noticed any downsides after moving to 0x12F?
3. Is there any reliable way to check whether my CPU has already suffered some degradation, even if it's currently stable?

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially from people running a 14700K/KF on MSI boards.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice from people who have been following the Intel 13th/14th gen situation more closely.

My current setup:

• Intel i7-14700KF
• MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi
• BIOS: E7D98IMS.HB0
• Current microcode: 0x12C
• PC was bought prebuilt from an integrator in October 2025.

I only recently found out about the degradation issues affecting some 13th and 14th gen Intel CPUs. Since then I've been checking my system to make sure everything looks healthy. From what I understand the 0x12C microcode already solves most of the instability issues.

I've been using this PC for gaming and music production for about 9 months (~700hrs) without any issue whatsoever.

Here are the values I measured while playing a demanding game in 1080p :

• Vcore: ~1.43 V (pretty much constant)
• CPU Package Power: ~88 W average, ~147 W max
• CPU temperature: 65-75°C
• No thermal throttling
• No crashes, BSODs or instability.

After reading a bit, I tried lowering CPU Lite Load in the BIOS. I also dropped PL1 from 253W to 175W, and PL2 from 253W to 225W. 

After that:

• Vcore dropped to around 1.34 V under load
• Temperatures went down a few degrees
• Performance seems unchanged
• Still completely stable after gaming.

So far I'm pretty happy with the result.

Now I'm wondering whether it's actually worth updating my BIOS to get the microcode 0x12F.

From what I've read:

• 0x12F seems to mostly improve specific cases related to long uptime / light workloads.
• The benefits over 0x12C don't seem huge for a typical gaming PC.
• I've also seen several people reporting that after updating they had to retune their undervolt, lost some undervolting headroom, or even experienced new instability.

Updating the BIOS isn't something I particularly enjoy doing, so if there's no real benefit I'd rather avoid it.

My questions are:

1. Would you stay on 0x12C in my situation, or would you still update to 0x12F?
2. Have you noticed any downsides after moving to 0x12F?
3. Is there any reliable way to check whether my CPU has already suffered some degradation, even if it's currently stable?

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially from people running a 14700K/KF on MSI boards.

Just came back to the game and was welcome with the bad surprise of a completely new soundtrack, which I don't really like.

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Is there an easy way to get the old soundtrack back ? There doesn't seem to be any option in the menu.

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Thanks!