While the game has been praised for its action-focused combat system and player-driven economy, its launch hasn’t been without faults, either. Lengthy queue times to simply play New World has turned many potential gamers off of the title. One other major issue from New World’s beta has seemingly been carried over to the full release as well.
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Now, custom PC manufacturer PowerGPU has released a tweet stating that some of its users have begun sending in emails regarding GPUs that are no longer working after playing the game’s full release. PC Gamer has also claimed that multiple community members have reached out to them regarding hardware errors while playing New World. This time, it seems the EVGA RTX 3090 and the Gigabyte RTX 3080 Ti are the victims, with problems being caused by players changing graphical settings in the title, causing high load GPU spikes which can cause the game to crash or graphics cards to outright fail.
With graphics cards being so difficult to obtain these days, having a game like New World causing massive hardware failures is very serious. An RTX 3090’s MSRP is about $1,499 USD, and that is if players are even able to find one. Current retail and scalper prices are much higher due to the GPU shortages going on.
New World is available on PC.
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Source: PC Gamer
