It’s been a rough day for some unfortunate PC gamers. Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World, entered closed beta yesterday, and it didn’t take long before some
It’s been a rough day for some unfortunate PC gamers. Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World, entered closed beta yesterday, and it didn’t take long before some participants reported that the game bricked their GPUs. These weren’t aging GPUs trying to run a game beyond their capability, but rather top-of-the-line RTX 3090 GPUs. Most of the reports seem to suggest that the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra is having the most problems, though there have been user reports that suggest other GPUs are vulnerable as well. After some speculation from the player base about what could be causing the issue – players think it’s uncapped framerate in menus exacerbating a power delivery design flaw in these GPUs – Amazon has now responded to the claims and given users some tips on how to avoid damaging their hardware. In a post to the New World forums, an Amazon customer service rep explains that the studio believes the issue “is related with driver settings and frame rate limiters.
