PSA: ‘New World’ Closed Beta could fry your RTX 3090

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New World may be proving popular on Steam but it’s not been without issues. Some players are reporting that the game has fried their graphics cards.In the New World forum, user Goatz posted that as soon as they tried to start the beta, their fan speeds increased to 100 per cent, before the frame rate plummeted to zero and the monitors turned off.Upon rebooting their PC, they attempted to start New World again, after trying a few other games first.“Same thing happen but this time i heard a loud pop and now my 3090 wont get past POST on bootup,” they wrote.They added that this is actually the second 3090 FTW3 Ultra supplied by chip manufacturer EVGA to have failed while playing New World, having also experienced this during the Alpha.Other.