The beta test of the MMO New World took place in the second half of July, which is currently receiving a lot of attention thanks to the release of the full version. The reason why we recall the time before the release is the problems of several dozen players to whom the game should have damaged the graphics card. It was possible to find several connections in the incidents – it was mainly the same card manufacturer, ie the American company EVGA, and a very high load in the menu of the game itself, which the developers subsequently treated with a patch. Fenced off It is said that the beta is undoubtedly completely safe and perhaps only as a prevention they put on the main offer of the New World framer limiter. As the problem arose, it disappeared, especially when EVGA willingly replaced the damaged graphics cards with new ones, but the problem suddenly returned and the first complaints began to appear in connection with the full version.
The corresponding thread on Reddit was started by the user with the nickname LuckyPh1L, who described his story, at the end of which is a broken GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Interestingly, this is not a card made by EVGA, but by the globally respected company Gigabyte, but everything else corresponds to the well-known circumstances of the beta. “After trying the first beta, I fell in love with the game and decided to step into it a bit and build a brand new PC around the 3080 Ti graphics card,” the user wrote. He didn’t try the second beta anymore and was looking forward to the release of the game that came a few days ago, and Phil was enjoying the moment when he could choose the highest graphics preset and turn off the framer limiter. “Just hours after the servers started, I decided to get back into the game, and at that point, the fans on my graphics card started spinning fast until the whole computer froze,” LuckyPh1L said. However, during the restart, the red LED on the card lit up and the computer did not start.
At the end of his post, Phil asks if anyone has experienced anything like this and thanks his past self for not firing. old GTX 1070, which he now plays with, but to the lowest detail. And surprisingly, he is not alone in this, even though for several hours it seemed like a one-off incident. The same problems and the need to send a graphics card to the complaint were added by other players, paradoxically with cards from the same manufacturer. Someone was no longer able to make the graphics card work, some did, but it seems that the problem is really related to the frame rate setting. Most of those whose card showed abnormal behavior or was even damaged did not have a frequency limited to the target value, and usually only a relatively short playing time was enough for the card to stop working. However, there are also cases of players who, under the influence of the above concerns, have limited the frequency to the target frequency of the monitor – for example, 144 fps – and the problems have occurred as well.
Amazon developers have not yet commented on the issues.
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