Again, RTX 3090 owners are having issues with Amazon’s New World.
Following the New World fiasco, in which owners of high-end EVGA RTX 3090 cards were left with paperweights after playing Amazon’s MMO, EVGA investigated their GPUs to resolve the issue. Everyone thought the problem had been resolved — until New World was released.
On the New World forums, there are user reports of EVGA owners being forced to RMA their $2,879-plus graphics cards after playing a pirate MMO. “After two back screen crashes, I tried to restart the game, and my PC immediately rebooted,” reads a post titled “Game Crash – Black Screen – Bricked GPU!” on the New World forums.
“When it was returned, there was no video, and the motherboard indicated a VGA failure. The GPU’s center power connector was illuminated in red. The GPU has failed completely (bricked).”
That’s unfortunate, but they’re not the only ones having problems. Other 30-series RTX owners have experienced numerous crashes as well: I’m experiencing what appears to be the same crash as described above on the game’s initial load with 100 percent reliability thus far (namely, all monitors lose signal, the ‘device disconnected’ sound eventually plays, and a hard reset is required to clear the problem, with Reliability Monitor showing multiple failures of dwm.exe) at a power limit of 90W. Loads up to the server selection screen when set to 1605MHz. We can’t go any further right now because…well, servers. I’ll begin nudging the clock up to see where it begins to wobble.
Which is a rather underwhelming performance by Amazon’s engine, given that everything else – including Star-I-make-systems-cry-Citizen – is perfectly content at 1850… At 1680 MHz, the signal is marginally unstable (ie, 3090 reference). I’d been in the newbie area for about 10 minutes, gathering wood to make the skinning knife, when it suddenly crashed (same symptoms). We’re back to 1600 MHz.
Additional information: After a few hours of gameplay, it appears to be stable at 1600 MHz.
Then there are those who are troubled by a game that randomly freezes.
Another possible cause is that the game’s framerate limiter — a recommended setting for anyone who doesn’t want their GPUs to run at full speed trying to render every single frame — does not appear to be working. “It’s especially jarring right now when facing long login queues,” another user reported. “My GPU is sitting under full load, even when the game is minimised to the background.”
Some New World players claim to have encountered this issue during the beta, while others claim to have not encountered it prior to the MMO’s launch. However, according to a response from the developers of New World, the problem has been escalated.
Of course, for frustrated New World players, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Every successful MMO has a rocky start, but New World‘s bugs go a little further than that. Some of the biggest hits so far include respawn timers that force you to wait an entire week, overloaded servers, players’ faces disappearing after teleporting, the game blacking out if it’s raining and you’re in the middle of a Darkness event, the interact button simply not working for whatever reason, players being permanently stuck in fishing when trying to duel, and players literally becoming immunized. Which, I’ve been told, is a feature.