Some players are reporting cases of their GPUs bricking after running Amazon’s latest MMO craze, New World—again.
Amazon’s MMO New World made a mixed start when it started beta with massive adoption and several cases of users getting bricked GPUs. The recorded 700,000 concurrent users at Steam is a feat on its own. But users reporting their EVGA RTX 3090 graphics card breaking after running the game was an issue that is hard to ignore.
The old scenario
Initially, the issue was blamed for an uncapped frame rates that’s cau
Some players are reporting cases of their GPUs bricking after running Amazon’s latest MMO craze, New World—again.
sing the specific GPU to draw so much power. The ramification of which is a level of damage to the hardware that makes the GPU itself essentially unusable. In response, Amazon rolled out a hotfix addressing the said issue, despite claims that the beta version is “safe to play.” But it seems that the new MMO is not the sole culprit in the overall issue.
EVGA, too, as it appears, has its fair share over the trouble. Yet, being the responsible manufacturer, EVGA admitted fault to the issue, citing sloppy soldering to the MOSFETS as the problem. But it also claims that only a small number of cards were affected by the issue. Considerably, the reported dead GPUs arising from playing the game were taken for replacement, which surprisingly amounts only to two dozen.
Here we go again https://t.co/QClTvMLKa0
— VideoCardz.com (@VideoCardz) September 29, 2021
Rearing its ugly head
With the open beta testing done and the game officially released to the market, it was assumed that the issue is already fixed. As it turns out, it is not—new anecdotal claims suggest that a similar issue is happening again. This time, not only exclusive to a high-end EVGA RTX GPU, but also Gigabyte as well.
As per German publication Winfuture, Gigabyte RTX 3090 seems to be affected as well. It cites a myriad of trigger points that are causing additional strain to the GPU. Two in particular involves the merely changing of graphics setting and the closing of the game.
“The fans howl to 100 percent, the screen goes black, the PC says goodbye”.
Simple, but taxing, implementation
In a testing conducted by one of PCGamer’s own, he found out that merely configuring the graphics setting does indeed put extra strain on the GPU. This comes as a result of the system going on a hard refresh every single time a change occurs. It is said that it can take up to 100% of the GPU load going through that process alone.
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