A closed beta test of an ambitious MMORPG started this week New world from company Amazon Game Studios… However, the players were in for an extremely unpleasant surprise that could cost them a lot of money.
New World is a project of complex creative destiny. Despite the huge financial investments, the developers constantly faced problems, some of which were created by the graphics engine. Amazon Lumberyard (variation CryEngine). In addition, the studio’s management provoked several scandals by deciding to change the concept of MMO for the sake of “combating toxic behavior“.
Didn’t improve the situation and deafening failure in 2023 another project Amazon – multiplayer shooter Crucible… That is why the start of PTA New World has been repeatedly postponed.
Despite all of the above, the MMO was able to interest a huge number of people on Steam. At its peak, more than 190 thousand people played it, according to the portal’s data. SteamDB… It is possible that the interest is associated with the mass exodus of players from World of warcraftwho are looking for a new home.
But not without problems, one of which is more reminiscent of the scale of the disaster. The point is that New World can … “burn” the video card.
According to preliminary data, the performance of MMOs is poor. After starting, the processor and video card begin to overheat so much that the computer may fail.
Most user messages are related to breakage GeForce RTX 3090, however, complaints come from the owners Radeon RX Vega 64, RTX 2080 Super and other products from AMD, Nvidia and Intel… Limiting the performance to 30 frames per second helps to partially solve the problem, but the result is not guaranteed.
Representatives of Amazon Game Studios published instructions on how to solve the problem on the official forum, but it does not help everyone. And the number of complaints continues to grow.
Players note that in conditions of high prices and a shortage of hardware, they are not ready to sacrifice their expensive assemblies of computers for the sake of MMOs for several tens of dollars. However, the developers continue to insist that the beta version of New World is “safe”.
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