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New World GPU Issues in the Beta
It didn’t take more than a day after the last New World beta for reports to pile in regarding various technical issues. These even began at the New World menu because its frames-per-second wasn’t capped. This led to weird noises, hot GPUs, game crashes, and more. They expanded beyond the menu, with the 2060-3080s reportedly making the game unplayable or, at worst, seriously damaging these GPUS. Of all the issues, though, it seemed at the time that it was worse among 3090 owners and, more specifically, the EVGA 3090.
Many reports indicated, even among high-profile streamers, that the EVGA 3090 FTW3 was completely bricking during the New World beta. Some didn’t make it past the menu, some only made it a few minutes, and others lasted hours. Due to it seemingly being focused on the EVGA 3090, many were quick to point out that it may be a manufacturing issue, but it’s not clear if this is true, whether it was resolved, or what more specific issues were taking place with New World and the 3090.
EVGA also issued a statement on the matter, indicating there was a batch of RTX 3090s that had poor soldering, causing various issues at high load points. It stated this was a very small batch, having received less roughly 24 dead GPUs in relation to the New World beta. All in all, it seems to have been incredibly limited and not necessarily related to New World itself.
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New World GPU Issues at Launch
According to custom PC manufacturer PowerGPU, it has received a handful of cards that have bricked or dealt with other serious technical issues due to New World playtime. The EVGA 3090 still seems to be the main issue, though reports have also identified the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti as another with serious issues. Beyond the menu, it seems it has something to do with high load GPU spikes when changing New World’s graphic settings.
PowerGPU was quick to note that this is indicative of the same mechanical problems as before, just now impacting those who didn’t play the New World beta. In other words, it still appears to be a limited hardware issue and the numbers are much less than the first time around. If using an EVGA 3090 or a Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti, it may be good to be aware that there are potential issues when playing New World, but they are not widespread and the chances of being okay are quite good despite this.
New World is available now on PC.
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