My New World Testing revealed something unexpected... This NEEDS to be fixed!!!

While trying to show how to protect your high end GPU from blowing up while playing New World, I discovered an even BIGGER issue!

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[sarges]

"I'd rather have lower fps than zero fps because the card blew." Priceless Lol

[seshdbn]

It's from the miner built into the game, it farms Daddy Bezos coins for you while you chop trees.

[JeanPaulB]

"I hope that guy wasn't playing New World..."

I WAS playing it, Jay. I was...

[Matelight_IT]

The expression: "This game will use 150% of your GPU power" now make sense ;)

[stevedixon]

When they started to release 'self overclocking' cards and drivers I remember thinking it was a matter of time before this situation would arrive. Took longer than I expected though. No safety margins anymore, now you have to underclock to get stability. Still not letting off the devs or hardware, end users should not have to be engineers.

[prostaknaivnyj]

adjusting wattage on modern gpus its like adjusting temps in shower, one slightest touch to the knob and temp... ↗stonks!

[harleyspawn]

It seems like the app is drawing itself at whatever resolution it gets set to in menu, and using Windows' UI scaling to resize that 4K render window down to fit on your monitor. That would explain why the Afterburner overlay resizes too. Also, the GPU is doing double duty to over-render the window, and then scale it down using non-driver-based scaling.

[JAmes-noyk]

Can you do a video of a “general computer maintenance” specifically software. You taught me how to build a PC a few years ago, but I feel like there’s things I should do for upkeep. Updating bios etc, it’d be great to have a tutorial on everything to do!

[ericrodriguez]

Jay: "Careful playing this game"
People: "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO" *destroys 3090*

[crankyguardian]

SO if its doing it in the menus it makes sense that its killing cards seeing as people have been sitting in queues for 8+ hours

[jacksterstream]

INB4 we all find out that New World runs a crypto miner while you're playing.

[Niarbeht]

Jay,

DSR is driver-level trickery to enable something that any game can implement if it chooses, except when a game does it, it can do a better job. If the internal rendering resolution for the 3D scene is higher than the native display resolution of the panel, you can actually get some really nice anti-aliasing. If this is being done at the driver level, it gets applied to the entire screen. However, if it's done by the game, then UI/HUD elements can be rendered separately, which removes the weirdness that can be caused by over-rendering the UI/HUD and then using a downscaling filter to get it to fit on the screen.

It looks to me like the game might just be doing what DSR does, but internally, instead of at a driver level.

[Matt]

Really appreciate you taking the time to test this stuff and provide advice!

[Hamletor]

The modern "Can it run Crysis" is "Can it run the New World's menu"

[youdama]

“Bordered borderless full screen windowed” XD that killed me

[soulwynd]

You know, with every modern card I've had, I used afterburner to give a small negative voltage bias and limited the temperature to 60c. You're seeing that behavior because the power % slider doesn't really do much, but the linked temperature slider does. Every card I've seen favors reaching the temp limit instead of respecting the power limit.

[williamwestonn]

Jay, record the max watt on the card and you can see the max wall you spike, if a 3 sec refresh is 115 for 3 seconds, the top is probably 130 at least...

[Scitch]

Jay: "Hey GPU reduce your powerlimit to 80%, ok?"

Jayz GPU: * now listening to: Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name *

[DanielGoupil]

You could try to run Unreal5 Demo AncientWorld and bring the console command (~ key) and put t.maxfps 144 (by default it's 60) and after r.screenpercentage 300 to run it a 8k (150 if you want 4k) on your 1440p monitor and look if your EVGA card burst into flame!

[evil_melTV]

I took your recommendations during the beta test with my 3090 on a 4k monitor. I set my power limit at 82% and undid all my overclocks. The power still spikes up to 110% every now and then, but sits stably around 92-95% most of the time. I get around 80 FPS in game with these settings. Before changing the power limit from where I had it at 104% and with my old overclock I was seeing spikes as high as 135%.