Amazon responds after reports its New World MMO is making expensive RTX 3090 cards • Eurogamer.net

Yesterday saw the beta launch of Amazon’s much-delayed New World MMO, and early gameplay reports were generally positive. However, the growing number of posts from gamers saying that New World has also managed to brick their expensive RTX 3090s graphics cards are considerably less positive – an issue Amazon has now acknowledged on its official support forum.

The potentially explosive abilities of Word of New World first appeared on the dedicated MMO subreddit. “I just bricked a 3090 in the main menu after setting my graphics quality to medium and pressing save,” user greyone78 wrote. “I can’t believe it. Has anyone else had a catastrophic failure like this?”

Several responses seem to confirm that, yes, this is not an isolated issue, and further reports of RTX 3090 malfunctions after playing New World (mostly seeming to impact cards made by EVGA) have started to appear. spreading to Twitter and beyond, as well as speculation about the issue may be the result of power spikes and overheating caused by uncapped frame rates in in-game menus.

For a while, Amazon was silent on the matter, but a post by a customer service representative on the New World’s Game Support forum has now acknowledged that MMO can result in 100% GPU usage on EVGA graphics cards. RTX 3090, pointing to blame. “Driver Settings and Frame Rate Limiters.”

The rep offered two solutions in their article, suggesting that RTX 3090 users turn off overrides in their card’s driver settings and limit their FPS to 60 in visual settings before restarting the New World game client. “This will help to avoid problems with using the GPU,” explained the representative.

In response to the post, some users suggested that the overheating and crashing issues persist (on a range of different cards, not just the specified EVGA model) even with the default settings enabled and the frame rate capped at 60. frames per second. As such, owners of high-end graphics cards may still want to exercise some caution and wait for further updates from Amazon if they plan to put the New World beta to the test. .