Wednesday, July 21st 2021
New World (Closed Beta), an MMO, Found Bricking GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Cards
A closed beta of "New World," an MMO in development by Amazon Game Studios, is found damaging NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. Apparently the game causes a catastrophic failure of RTX 3090 graphics cards, even before it begins rendering the scene. "I just bricked a 3090 in the main menu after setting my graphics quality to medium and hitting save," wrote one user on Reddit.
Amazon in a statement on Wednesday, said that it has received two reports from RTX 3090 users on high GPU usage when playing the game, "consistent with playing a graphically rich game." It is said to be working on a patch that addresses the issue, but in the meantime, urged users to dial down their graphics settings. EVGA has come out with a statement of its own, saying that its RTX 3090 graphics cards getting bricked for playing the game would be "completely under warranty."
Source:
greyzone78 (Reddit)
Amazon in a statement on Wednesday, said that it has received two reports from RTX 3090 users on high GPU usage when playing the game, "consistent with playing a graphically rich game." It is said to be working on a patch that addresses the issue, but in the meantime, urged users to dial down their graphics settings. EVGA has come out with a statement of its own, saying that its RTX 3090 graphics cards getting bricked for playing the game would be "completely under warranty."
98 Comments on New World (Closed Beta), an MMO, Found Bricking GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Cards
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High frame rates are never dangerous, there is no way that by itself is causing damage, frame rates in the thousands can't even create high load due to CPU overhead. Graphics developers run games in modes at thousands or tens of thousands of FPS frequently, and if this was a graphics card killer, we would know.
If software is triggering something that bricks cards, then there is an underlying bug in firmware or hardware. If a such bug exist, then it should be resolved by the manufacturer, the software is not to blame for causing such damage. Let me stress that while this is a theoretical possibility, it's exceedingly rare.
In over 15 years of graphics development I think I've seen one case where I'm fairly sure buggy software triggered a state which caused permanent damage (and perhaps 1-2 more cases where it was suspected).
I'm more curious to know the answers to the following;
- How many are actually affected? (<10? hundreds?)
- How many of the affected cards have never been overclocked?
- Have any of the affected cards been previously used for sustained loads (like mining)?
he suspects thats the issue, that some models are getting big spikes in power, tripping safeties (the crashes/black screens) and the shunts/whatever it is eventually fail, causing permanent death
But yes, you'd expect thermal throttling to kick in or, if not, no OCP should kick in either.
That said, we won't figure it out here, let's wait for proper investigation.
It's a manufacturing fault of the card & not the game, but I don't think all cards from the same group are affected. I think it's just user specific.
Awaiting to see the first user to take they card apart & post photo In countries where the warranty sticker is not valid..