Thanks for mentioning this. I added it to OP including the steps PCGamer includes to do so.
They have to. Bricking GPU's for having uncapped framerate is absurd
You're most welcome. I hope this information gets to a lot of people with 30XX series cards
IIRC frame capping also helped alleviate a lot of the issues during the New World killing 3090s fiasco as well. Crazy that it's happening again though after how much of a mess that became.
Its absurd how a simple thing can brick a GPU. Good thing we know the temporary fix
Uncapped in general. I played on 120fps last weekend and it was fine
That's what I'm wondering. How do all those benchmark apps not blow up these gpus? They allow unlimited frames too.
Last time EVGA explained it was a hardware flaw on their part due to bad soldering, so your GPU might just die on you later down the line when your warranty is up so better to just figure it out now if this is a trigger.
Yes its the reason but if you don't mind me asking, why do you cap on 60 and not higher?
Admittedly I already got to level 20 with a character so think I might leave playing it again till launch, but I'm likely going to keep an eye out on it more if/when I play again. Definitely a bit worrying.
Seems to be aimed primarily at Gigabyte 3080 Ti's for now but capping your framerate at least during the beta period wouldn't hurt for anyone on 30xx cards. They're still investigating so the scope of hardware affected is a question mark beyond those Gigabyte GPUs.
As long as you're capping you're fine. I capped since forever at 162 since my monitor is 165hz
