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by shaggie76 1863 days ago
The game I work on is in the list and early on we saw a bunch of inexplicable crashes from Zen hardware (looking through the dumps we would see $rip had gotten itself into impossible places or we'd get exceptions at addresses that were not involved in the crashing thread).

As these crash faded from our bug leaderboard we assumed it was people upgrading their BIOS to get microcode fixes; I guess these runtime checks were a desperate attempt to avoid crashes in the interim? Windows Update is pretty bossy but it never demands that you update your BIOS.

How our game got on that list is baffling to me, though -- I don't know how AMD would have gotten the crash reports in the first place.