It Looks Like New World Is Reportedly Causing GPU Issues Again

New World and EVGA made headlines over the summer time as studies trickled out that extremely costly RTX 3090 GPUs had been being bricked while enjoying the alpha of Amazon’s MMO. Whereas these studies pointed to points with soldering on EVGA’s GPUS, it appears studies have began to return out since Tuesday’s launch of extra GPU issues – they usually aren’t solely centerted on Nvidia’s GPUs.

Within the wake of the reports back in July, Amazon assured followers that New World was “safe to play,” and it was then found that the problems weren’t essentially tied to New World but a soldering problem at EVGA. Nonetheless, since Tuesday, studies have been popping out of extra GPU points affecting a number of fashions of Nvidia playing cards in addition to some AMD fashions whereas enjoying New World. 

Some customers, particularly AMD customers, are reporting overheating points on Reddit, particularly whereas sitting within the lengthy queue occasions many gamers discover themselves in whereas making an attempt to simply play the MMO. One reddit put up pointed to their Rx 5700 XT as overheating whereas simply ready to play, whereas others have all however blamed Amazon’s MMO from frying their extremely costly GPUs, equivalent to on Redditor’s RTX 3080 Ti, and even RTX cards on laptops. One Reddit person who has since RMA’d their RTX 3080 even states that EVGA has an choice for the RMA as “New World Issue.” 

We’ve got reached out to Amazon about this challenge for a press release and can replace this story in the event that they select to offer one.

One work round, particularly for top queue occasions, is to make use of your GPU’s management panel to Vsync your framerate to your monitor’s refresh fee, or use options equivalent to AMD’s Radeon Chill to maintain temps cool throughout idle and loading screens. Gamers may additionally doubtlessly use Riva Statistics Tuner to cap framerate to make sure that whereas sitting in lengthy queues framerates do not sky rocket and your GPU is not put underneath pointless load, particularly because the log-in queue challenge nonetheless does not look like absolutely mounted simply but. 

New World launched on Tuesday and has since skyrocketed up the Steam charts, hitting over 700K concurrent users on Steam the primary day (a lot of which had been sitting in queues, however hey). The brand new MMO from Amazon Video games units gamers in a world shipwrecked on an island the place the principles of life and demise are horribly askew. Gamers are tasked with settling the island and dealing with gamers of their faction to achieve management of the Everlasting Isle’s numerous settlement areas.  Since launching, nonetheless, many gamers have discovered themselves stuck in long queues, particularly on well-liked servers the place streamers inhabit, inflicting Amazon to spin up massive amounts of servers to meet the demand.