There has undeniably been a change to how the game interacts with the hardware after the patch was released. A lot of weird problems have risen up. So it can be that the game isn’t “optimized” enough so to speak, and drives up the demand in a way that other games you play don’t do, which hits that damaged part past its tolerance and causes the instability with the app.
Anyway, once there’s that kind of damage, then it’ll only continue to deteriorate.
Oh right, and you should also make sure to have the thermals checked after replacing it, if you’re going to keep the same AIO cooler, presuming you’re using an AIO cooler.
These extreme heat generation issues can damage the fluids inside the water loop in AIO coolers, which has happened to some people from all these problems with raptor lake CPUs ever since the vmin shift scandal started. It even happened to me, so I can speak from personal experience 
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