Amazon's New World is brutally bricking RTX 3090 graphics cards
The most powerful GPU in the world has been brought to its knees.
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The same issues are being posted on the official forums as well. $2000 GPUs breaking due to a closed beta... fucking insane and scary.
I have a 3080 and played the Beta for a few hours today but after seeing these I'm.. super cautious even though everything has been running pretty smoothly so far.
I have a 3080 and played the Beta for a few hours today but after seeing these I'm.. super cautious even though everything has been running pretty smoothly so far.
That should at most give you head-splitting coil whine, not break the card.
Dunno game was very demanding from what played even the frikkin main menu you have to wait in queue for a while runs my card pretty hot but i doubt it can actually brick a card unless the cooling solution on it is crap.
I don't think developers have access to things that can cause any damage to your hw. If anything, this looks like Nvidia's fault.
Damn, imagine finally getting a 3090, and probably getting overcharged, only for this beta to fry it.
this is pretty much the problem of Nvidia to fix and the fault lies with them than developers
there's no way to brick a modern GPU (or really any hardware) because of a bug or whatever, because we don't have such direct access to the hardware level to inflict such any more
what I think is that there's some hardware flaw that's causing it to brick easily from unrestricted high framerates
don't really think Amazon developers would even be able to identify specifically what causes it. This is in the realm of the hardware manufacturer
there's no way to brick a modern GPU (or really any hardware) because of a bug or whatever, because we don't have such direct access to the hardware level to inflict such any more
what I think is that there's some hardware flaw that's causing it to brick easily from unrestricted high framerates
don't really think Amazon developers would even be able to identify specifically what causes it. This is in the realm of the hardware manufacturer
unlocked fps in menus can absolutely cause issues if the cooling of the card is inefficient. It works the card extremely hard, much harder than normal gameplay.
This is the post from the game's forum about the issue
forums.newworld.com
Issues with EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra
Good Afternoon, So after hitting the play button for New World beta the game started to load, followed immediately by fan speeds increasing to 100%, fps dropping to 0, and then my monitors turning off and my video card is no longer detected. So i reboot the PC and everything seemed to work...
forums.newworld.com
This is the post from the game's forum about the issue
Issues with EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra
Good Afternoon, So after hitting the play button for New World beta the game started to load, followed immediately by fan speeds increasing to 100%, fps dropping to 0, and then my monitors turning off and my video card is no longer detected. So i reboot the PC and everything seemed to work...
Yeah that's a bit too much to be just a coincidence tbh.
It can brick stuff in certain circumstances. Seems like an HW issue here in combination with high FPS in the menus causing it to get triggered.
Main menu in this game renders the gameworld in the background for some reason it's very demanding and you have to stay on this screen as long as you queue which was around 1h for me yesterday my fans sounded like a vacuum cleaner after a few min luckily nothing happend.
This is by far the most demanding main menu screen i have ever seen in a game.
You don't normally spend a lot of time in menus, I assume there's a long queue in the game. If you sit on a menu screen while getting several hundreds of fps for hours, it's a serious stress test for any card. Well designed cards will not fail, but crappy, flawed designs can absolutely trip from it.
This is the post from the game's forum about the issue
Issues with EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra
Good Afternoon, So after hitting the play button for New World beta the game started to load, followed immediately by fan speeds increasing to 100%, fps dropping to 0, and then my monitors turning off and my video card is no longer detected. So i reboot the PC and everything seemed to work...
This is exactly what happened to my 3080 while playing Mechwarrior 5. FPS was not wildly crazy (maybe 100fps) but max fans, black screen. The card is still usable for booting Windows but any sort of 3D game or Nvidia broadcast kills it. Ended up having to RMA the card because no reflash could fix the problem. (checked across 4 computers too)
And now I think this will be the messaging for New World. First impressions mean everything. New World is dead in the water. And yes I know FFXIV managed to persevere, but that was an extraordinary situation.
And the original person who posted the issue on the game's forum never even got to the main menu so how does unlocked FPS explain that? lol
Reddit - Dive into anything
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From the Reddit thread, seems like almost everyone affected has an EVGA card.
Menu framerate is irrelevant, this can happen anywhere in the game
Cant play that clip for whatever reason.
Look at the post from the game's forum I linked. It happened to multiple people immediately, not after an hour or even a few minutes
No, it won't. It's an issue isolated to a 3090 and perhaps only EVGA 3090s.
Oh dear, it's EVGA.... I don't know why that brand is so liked by some people. They have some sort of serious bricking or GPU dying problem every generation.Reddit - Dive into anything
From the Reddit thread, seems like almost everyone affected has an EVGA card.
I don't even have an nVidia card, but my 6900XT is going nowhere near that game now. Jesus christ!
StarCraft 2 bricked few GPUs by having main menu be 3D with uncapped FPS. GPUs would push thousands of FPS while in menu.
Blizzard patched that real fast after reports started to come out of fried GPUs.
tl;dw is that he was running around town, checking other peoples characters, when it suddenly shut off.
No idea lol this shouldn't even be possible i wonder what amazon has running in the background of the game. I actually thought something had installed a coin miner on my system for a min the first time i booted the game up.
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It doesn't matter. The optics of this is that people will be too nervous to use less powerful graphics cards. Literally someone in this thread just posted that they won't play this with their older card.
lmao, same here. I'd be incandescent.
Amazon should absolutely replace these GPUs