On July 20th, the closed beta of Amazon’s long-awaited MMO game New World started. Since then, there have been increasing reports of defective or overheated graphics cards. The models RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 FTW from the manufacturer EVGA seem to be particularly affected. ß
Last update: July 21, 2021
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New World supposedly damages the graphics card
This is how users report »greyone78« via Reddit:
“I just wrecked a 3090 in the main menu after setting my graphics quality to medium and hitting save. Can’t believe it. Has anyone else had such a catastrophic outage? I’m playing cyberpunk [mit der] 3090 has been on Ultra for months, so it really doesn’t make any sense.
Is anyone else joining the RMA club? ”
User »ipoptires« replies as follows:
“Well. I think this just happened to me. The display went off while I was in the queue. Now I can’t turn the display on. But the GPU fans run at maximum for some reason when I run my PC turn on.
Edit: It’s an EVGA 3090 FTW3 ”
Other users report similar problems: The graphics card no longer outputs an image after a reset. Many users are now planning to send in their accelerator and request a refund.
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It doesn’t always have to be total failures
However, it does not always seem to be catastrophic failures. Often the game just crashes or causes an unusually high load and heat development of the graphics card. For example, user “Drakaris” writes:
“In New World, GPU / CPU not only go crazy in the menu menu, it’s even worse in-game. My GPU hit over 80 degrees (after I forced all 3 fans to 100%, the first time I’ve done this since Undervolting) and the CPU over 85 degrees.
I have no idea how this is even possible, I don’t even reach these temperatures in synthetic benchmarks and 7-8 hour stress test loops. Limiting the FPS to 60 helps a little, but not much, and I really haven’t spent a small fortune to play at 60 … ”
Problems partially confirmed in the self-test
We can partially simulate the problems with our RTX 3090 Founders Edition. In the menu, the utilization of the graphics card is permanently between 93 and 95 percent, with a clock rate of 1,890 MHz. After a few minutes the temperature is already 67 degrees, and the trend is rising.
In the game itself, however, we don’t have any problems. The temperature did not rise above 64 degrees during our brief play in UWQHD resolution (3440 x 1440 pixels) including maximum details, we did not notice any crashes or unusually high utilization of the graphics card.
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Have you already been able to gain experience with New World? Do you even have problems with the graphics card? Feel free to write it in the comments!
