Download Afterburner or similar, set the card's target temperature to 80, see if it tanks performance. No game should be able to force thermal shutdown if the cooling systems are working, but un-optimised ones like these make for good coal mine canaries.

gotta up that fan curve i guess, shouldn't get that hot though, i would look up your brand and model and see if others are having the same issue.

Originally posted by chocolaterat:

So recently the game crashed in the middle of my play and I realized that once I started the game without actually going into my world my RX6800XT reaches 86C. I think the crash is due to overheat but has anyone else experience this before as well????

VSync on? If not turn it on. It may help reduce temps.

I got a 960 gtx and have never had any issue with the game.

My max GPU temp had been 76c. At the moment, taking off the front and top meshes of my tower, brought it down to 73c.

Mind you, I set shadows to low, turned off SSAO, set level of detail/distance thingy to medium, and that definitely helped average my GPU temp lower than that max.