playing Tomb Raider Game of the year edition from epic games launcher, its getting an error, I checked verify files, all looks normal

R16 issues with the latest BIOs file should go here.

There are several threads on this forum about R16 crashes. If this is an Intel machine, pretty sure it is, Intel is aware of the CPU randomly crashing and working on a solution.

However, you might not want to wait and instead opt for a return if you are still in your return window. That would of course be up to you.

@Vanadiel​ 

downgrading the bios back to 2.7.0 is that possible? or is it something that should be fixed when a newer bios than 2.8.0 is released, and its not up to me to return it but my dad, since he paid for the pc, plus if its a bug that can be fixed, since I think its only affecting this one game, and since people online reported that rise of the tomb raider gets an Tiger read request doesn't belong to this archive bug, it might be related to their hardware which is not alienware, so I didn't know that Tiger read request was a CPU thing, I really had thought that the 3D card drivers were at fault and maybe the OEM Nvidia drivers needed upgrading, but OEM Nvidia drivers, version is older than the offical nvidia drivers, but last time I tried the offical nvidia drivers, the directs 12 mode for Control under Gog Galaxy got a error and only would run under the OEM Nvidia drivers, so I thought the bug with Tomb Raider was simliar, but I guess I was wrong. 

Game error in "Death Stranding" from epic games launcher  it had this error just once on this alienware pc Build : dso 206/2742586 17:50 - Thu Aug 04 2022 An Access Violation (C0000005h) has occurred in thread 'Background 1' at instruction location 000001EFF6151A10h Base: 0x00007FF719210000 CallStack : 1469040557   0. 0x00095250403E    ntdll.dll, 0x2B71403E   1. 0xFFFF81FA1CF41A10     RAX = f83fd798 RBX = f6151a10 RCX = f6151a10 RDX = f5ea1bd8 RSI = f5e98780 RDI = 88d23f0 R8 = f5e98780 R9 = 0 R10 = f83fd798 R11 = f6151a10 R12 = f6151a10 R13 = f5e98780 R14 = 86 R15 = 2920 RIP = f6151a10 RSP = 1cdf8b78 RBP = f79298b7 EFL = 10202   0. 0x7FF71AA7166E    DeathStranding.exe, 0x1AA7166E   1. 0x7FF71AA73572    DeathStranding.exe, 0x1AA73572   2. 0x7FF71AA73876    DeathStranding.exe, 0x1AA73876   3. 0x7FFF2B6E7F5A    ntdll.dll, 0x2B6E7F5A   4. 0x7FFF2B68E642    ntdll.dll, 0x2B68E642   5. 0x7FFF2B71403E    ntdll.dll, 0x2B71403E   6. 0x01EFF6151A10

is that a bios error, "Tiger read request doesn't belong to this archive (was 102, expected 7)"

that the game "tomb raider Game of the year edition crashed on, windows 11 itself did not crash, just the game, which is why I thought it was a NVidia driver related bug, I read online when searching this error, that rise of the tomb raider has done this before, and it's not related to Alienware hardware. I had changed a few settings and was able to get passed this bug in the game, the windows 11 itself nor the pc crashed, no blue screen of death or anything like that the message came directly from the video game. Also, my bios is updated to 2.8.0., the pc came with 2.7.0 bios. sp I do have that bios you link to. we just got this pc so it would be in a return window but if its just a error in one video game I am not sure that needed yet, if they fix the bios like updates fix this problem, since the pc itself seems very stable, and I only had one video game crash on me, which is a old one, I thought maybe since it was made before they came out with the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super that it might of been a bug in the NVidia driver, not bios or cpu I didn't think its related to those for that game crash, since when I had changed the graphics from Quality setting to Ultra from Ultimate, that seemed like it fixed it, why I thought the problem was maybe the 3D card driver itself.

I did go with this pc build and the link below is the product page in which my dad had order it, at the time it was listed for less than $3,199.99.

| Dell USA

• Intel® Core™ i9 14900KF (68 MB cache, 24 cores, up to 6.0 GHz P-Core Thermal Velocity)

• Windows 11 Home, English, French, Spanish

• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4080 SUPER, 16 GB GDDR6X

• 32 GB: 2 x 16 GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s

• 2 TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD

• 1000W Platinum Rated PSU, 240mm Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel

this also should be the same product, I think. something happened to that link I had bookmarked above.

Alienware R16 Gaming Desktop with Air Cooling & Liquid Cooling | Dell USA

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  below are not related to my error, but I did try to search this error, it seems that a similar one has happened before in rise of the tomb raider, but when I played rise of the tomb raider, I didn't get any such error yet.
  
  

Tiger read request error cant load the game :: Rise of the Tomb Raider Technical Support (steamcommunity.com)

Tiger read request :: Tomb Raider General Discussions (steamcommunity.com)

rise of the tomb raider - "Tiger read request doesn't belong to this archive (was 2, expected 11): >rq:?" - Arqade (stackexchange.com)

also as I noted dell.com seems to of raised the price of the desktop setup I went with it was under $3,199.99 when we got this pc, it was more like $2,500.99 or something like that it would be on the account on dell.com that my dad paid for the pc.

my parents gave me a price limit on what I was allowed to get as a new desktop pc. and the same setup is now over the amount of that limit, given to me by my parents. in any case, I can wait for a new bios upgrade to fix these problems since the hardware itself passed all the tests by SupportAssist

Support for Alienware Aurora R16 | Diagnostics | Dell US

as you can see all the hardware passed its tests. I can wait for a fix if it is a problem with the CPU I think, since again the price of the pc, my dad paid for has gone up in price as its no longer priced the same as we paid for it, when I say we I mean my dad paid for it.

POWERPLAY	PCI	PASSED
LIGHTSPEED Receiver	PCI	PASSED
SteelSeries Apex 7	PCI	PASSED

these 3 items may not be common, as I own a Logitech wireless mouse and charging mouse pad, called powerplay  that I am using with my alienware pc.

and my keyboard is the SteelSeries Apex 7 device. I also own a razer keyboard which I am using with my older desktop pc at home.

I think I wait for them to fix the bios is the problem is in 2.8.0 and not the video game itself on this pc.  it's strange I owned a pc that z690 AORUS master motherboard, and I had put an intel i9 129000k processor in it, and video games in DirectX 12 never crashed on me, it didn't have this problem if it's the Intel® Core™ i9 14900KF processor fault. I still have that processor in my gigabyte desktop, but its motherboard had broken, also I didn't have a water-based CPU fan cooler like this Alienware desktop has on it but an cooler master CPU dual fan which seemed to work fine for when I was playing my video games in its cooler master half evo 700 case.

(Solved) Stability issue with proc I9-14900K, crash + BSOD - Intel Community
Intel says it still doesn’t have the true fix for its crashing i9 desktop chips - The Verge
Intel is investigating game crashes on top-end Core i9 desktop CPUs | Ars Technica

I did ask Copilot this below, if its really related to the Tomb Raider Game of the Year crashing on me, and its not the nvidia drivers itself that caused it, as you wrote me, then most likely I have to wait for a bios update, I don't want to touch the bios settings myself, I am not sure what to change to make a few games more stable, if I need to then fine, otherwise I wait for a newer bios than 2.8.0 to me released on hopes that it fixes these bugs as I posted in my post above, including death stranding bug, and the Control bug using the offical nvidia drivers in directx 12 game, since I tried to upgrade my OEM nvidia driver to the offical nvidia driver using nvidia new app but the game crashed right away on the offical nvidia driver. as I wrote above about it here.

I asked it if it's related to the i9 CPU processor copilot told me the error has to do with this

The error message “Tiger read request doesn’t belong to this archive (was 102, expected 7)” in Tomb Raider Game of the Year Edition is typically related to file integrity issues rather than directly pointing to the CPU1. This error often occurs when the game files are corrupted or not properly installed12.

in this case, I didn't find it very helpful if it is the i9 CPU on the pc, then copilot doesn't have its facts correct. also, I did Verify game files with epic games launcher software it didn't have to redownload or fix anything that I can tell.