“A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Programmers are scrambling to overhaul the open-source Linux kernel's virtual memory system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to publicly introduce the necessary changes to its Windows operating system in an upcoming Patch Tuesday: these changes were seeded to beta testers running fast-ring Windows Insider builds in November and December. Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down, depending on the task and the processor model. More recent Intel chips have features – specifically, PCID – to reduce the performance hit.” Now in most games there hasn’t been a serious enough decrease in gaming performance from the benchmarks I’ve seen pre and post patches,but I read an article yesterday stating that game that use a lot of virtual memory will be impacted,so I’m gathering that would mean rf2. Anyone noticed a difference yet,or is there no need to worry
I bet 99% would prefere keep their "chip level security flaw" - oh, the horror! - than lose 30% of CPU performance. That would be a sort of disgrace to Intel, I've been seen company's going to bankrupt for less.
You can run the Intel® Management Engine Critical Firmware Update (Intel-SA-00086) tool to check. https://www.intel.com.tr/content/www/tr/tr/support/articles/000025619/software.html
Just curious, how are you able to avoid the update? At least in Windows 10 updates install automatically, and I assume if I ever want to install, say, a new creator's update for W10, I'd be forced to install this one as well, as updates in Windows depend on each other. The few tests I did with CPU-Z benchmark tool etc., there was no difference in performance. It seems that the 30% figure is from I/O heavy tasks, which should not concern gaming. As long as there isn't a PCI-E vulnerability found, I think rF2 performance will be fine.
Last update I did was the anniversary version I think, I shut down the update service and it just works.
Thank you, I ran the utitlity and I went to the Asus site downloaded the lastest Bios and the ME Update tool, now my system is secure.
As @stonec said, the 30% figure being bandied about applied to server type scenarios, very heavy I/O, nothing like home computing or gaming. But the media happily picked it up to get attention. Or they didn't know better, which would be fair enough too I guess. More game-oriented testing I've seen has shown somewhere between 0% and 5% impact (with more 0 than 5), but older generations more likely to be affected. Probably still not noticeably without studying the numbers though. OMG! That's it! There is a PCIe vulnerability, and rF2 was patched for it years ago!
I have a 4th series CPU and noticed I got the patch on 6/1. I have not noticed any difference but I only game and surf the web on my main pc.
I got the update yesterday,had nothing but stutters all day today,and even web browsing was very slow. Turns out that update reset my power settings in windows,and I think that was the cause,will now tommorow when I spend another few hrs on the pc.
