I enjoyed the game so far, and usually the game runs fine on my gtx 1080 paired with my Ryzen 5800x on highest settings between 80-90 fps. But sometimes the FPS, and everytime with it my GPU usage, drop to the 30s. My GPU hasnt run any hotter than 74° so far so its not a temperature issue and my CPU is chilling, so its not a CPU bottleneck.
Weirdest part however is that when the drop happened, i remained in the same spot and tried changing some graphic options. The second i changed the textures option, my FPS and GPU usage went back to normal. And they remained there even after switching it back to very high. This leads me to think that the problem is not related to me or my hardware.
(obviously running the latest nvidia drivers)
It’s not a gamebreaking bug and i know you guys have more urgent issues right now, but i would love if you guys could look into optimization in general or this specific issue in the near future.
My GPU is fine but there is definitely some unusual activity going on in New World.
I have an RTX 3090 Founders edition and Corsair AX1600i Digital 80 PLUS TITANIUM.
I typically run all my games on 2k resolution at 21:9 (3440x1440) UWQHD at 100hz/fps.
I noticed that no matter what I am doing or where I am and whether my graphics settings are low/medium/high/max there are wattage spikes ranging from 180 all the way to 300+ EVEN if I am doing nothing on screen and I am not in town (before anyone says its because I am in town)
I have my FPS locked with Vsync/Gysnc etc so ensure I don’t render any extra frames which has been the cause for some people.
I’ve tested FPS/HZ locked at 60 along with power % at 55% all low and the draw is between 180-230 as the range (doesnt even matter if its low or high there is hardly a noticable graphical difference lol.
Whether I do 100% power or 55% power my FPS remains the same and all other aspects of GPU usage and mylogs. The only difference is that the usage (in WATTS) spikes all the way up to 300 and sometimes more.
So why is the game causing the GPU to draw this much watts and where is it going exactly? surely if I was depriving the game/gpu of power then it would crash, not work and not maintain 60fps?
I play many other games that are very graphics intensive and even went back to my original overclocked GPU settings on other triple A titles that are far more advanced both graphically and usage wise; yet I don’t see the same behaviour on those titles.
So clearly there is a problem with New World and its code/instruction sets resulting in this weird behaviour. My GPU works and I have no issues with it but the random power draw/spikes on New World is certainly bizzare and needs looking into.
Temps are not an issue tbh but the power draw is