The closed beta of New World apparently leads to defective graphics cards on some systems. Owners of an RTX 3090 seem to be particularly affected by this.
On 20 July, the closed beta of Amazon’s long-awaited MMO game New World was launched. Since then, there have been more and more reports about defective or overheated graphics cards. Especially the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 FTW models from the manufacturer EVGA seem to be affected. ß
New World allegedly damages the graphics card
So reports user “greyone78” via Reddit:
“I just crashed 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 failure? I’ve been playing Cyberpunk [with the] 3090 on Ultra for months, so this really makes no sense.
Is anyone else joining the RMA club?”
User “ipoptires” responds 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 are running at maximum for some reason when I turn on my PC.
Edit: It’s an EVGA 3090 FTW3”
It doesn’t always have to be total failures
It doesn’t always seem to be total failures, however. Often the game apparently only 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, in the game it’s even worse. My GPU reached over 80 degrees (after forcing all 3 fans to 100%, the first time I’ve done that since undervolting) and the CPU over 85 degrees.
I have no idea how this is even possible, I don’t even reach these temperatures on synthetic benchmarks and 7-8 hour stress test loops. Limiting the FPS to 60 helps a little but not much, plus I really didn’t spend a small fortune so I can play at 60… “
Problems partially confirmed in self-test
We can partially recreate the problems with our RTX 3090 Founders Edition. In the menu, the utilisation of the graphics card is permanently in the range between 93 and 95 percent, at a clock rate of 1,890 MHz. After a few minutes, the temperature is already 67 degrees and rising.
However, we don’t have any problems in the game itself. The temperature doesn’t rise above 64 degrees during our short play in UWQHD resolution (3,440 x 1,440 pixels) including maximum details, we can’t detect any crashes or unusually high utilisation of the graphics card.
