A
new thread on Reddit revives concerns that playing
New World may be
resulting in damage to some high-end graphics cards. There were
reports of 3090 cards
dying after playing this summer's beta of the MMORPG, but most of those were
eventually blamed on a
specific problem with
EVGA cards.
PC Gamer
digs into these reports, saying that while they seem credible, it has been
unable to recreate the results:
In our testing Alan has noticed that when
changing the graphics settings the game does go through a hard refresh, where
the engine seems to want to draw the whole scene again, from low poly models,
adding more and more detail from there. That seems to put a lot of strain on
your system, often hitting 100% GPU load just from switching around some
graphics options.
It does bear saying that we've not seen a card fall over in our experience yet,
and a lot of people on the team have been playing New World out of morbid
curiosity. There's also the fact that even under 100% load your GPU should be
able to cope, which again speaks to potentially already existing, underlying
factors in the manufacturing of the graphics cards that have actually bricked as
a result of running the game.