Originally posted by Requimatic:

I simply would not play "New World" right now, for a myriad of reasons including the safety of your GPU.

* EVGA 3090 GPUs have been bricked by the game because it ignores power settings, forcing your GPU to use well over 100% power (120%+ in a few cases).

This causes the sub-par components (this is well-documented) used in those cards to fail, leaving you with a $1000+ paper weight. EVGA even added a "New World Game Issue" to their list of RMA reasons. EVGA themselves received.. 24? cards returned for this reason. Third-party repair shops probably received well over that number.

Port Royal benchmarks at the highest settings did not do anything similar to an EVGA 3090. "New World" did all of this in the SETTINGS MENU. Many people, after making changes and clicking "Save" were instantly met with a black screen.

The game will even let you set resolutions that your panel isn't capable of. Most games have logic built-in to prevent this, unless you force it (DSR Upscaling, I believe?) with the driver.

For this reason alone, I would be weary of even playing the game despite not having a 30-series card. If it will cause a 3090 to ignore whatever power setting you've set.. other cards may suffer a similar fate depending on your driver version.

* The game client is client-side authoritative.

This means that, with the correct knowledge, a player can do any number of things, including: duping currency, altering statistics, altering enemy EXP, becoming invincible, warping, etc., among some more dangerous things.

The chat box itself was found to be able to EXECUTE CODE. All of this is a novice-level no no coming from a multi-billion dollar corporation who could have very well hired expert-level coders.

The game essentially needs re-coded from the ground up to be completely fixed, from what I understand.


I would simply stay away from anything "Amazon Games" for the foreseeable future.

While some might say that of course Amazon would deny culpability, New World should not be blamed for all the GPU deaths despite what everyone might be telling you. EVGA has already confirmed that its first batch of RTX 3090 cards built a year ago had FAULTY SOLDER joints, which caused the cards to die under the strain of New World — and if it wasn't New World, it would have been some other game or application.

The reason EVGA has a RMA for New World users is because they know they released faulty cards. Notice you don't hear of problems with ASUS and other brands?
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amazon-new-world-gpu-deaths-caused-by-hardware-not-game