[WARNING]Game Crash - Black Screen - Bricked GPU!

I wish there was an easy answer. The suggestions for lowering your default gpu clocks is a good one to try out to test that piece of hardware. If it works and your gpu temps are ok then it usually means get a better PSU. But there are many exceptions. What monitor do you use. Is the win10 HDR display setting on or off. Try OFF. I’ve had the “no signal” countless times with my setup in the past. But never with Newworld. But i’ve done quite a few things to fix it as below.

Hardware wise most 9xx series were built well if the manufacturer followed the reference Nvidia design as the reference design was done well. They can handle full load except for a few exceptions. Use msi afterburner and create that profile. I use an Intel 2600k and a Nvidia GTX970 myself and have no issues. I know from personal experience that 9xx series and certain motherboards had issues with hdmi and especially DVI. Some had motherboard bios updates to fix the issue. My ASUS P8Z68vpro/gen3 had this issue with certain games in the past til i updated it. Some required a GPU bios update. There wasn’t a gpu bios update for my card which would have been the better solution. Some monitors required an update as well. I use a triple monitor setup for gaming to include this game and use 2 dvi to hdmi adaptors. DVI is rated at 1920x1200 60hz single link and 2560x1200 60 hz dual link. My adaptors are only rated for 1920x1080 60hz. Which is fine as that’s what i use. Don’t know your resolution and don’t even know if your cables need to be checked as well. And even though my monitors are updated for HDR there are some games that cause no display if i use that setting. I can use HDR for Newworld though. But that doesn’t mean you can.

There are just so many possible solutions it can get very frustrating to solve. Except as noted above when i have issues it ends up being sound driver or oddly network driver more so then anything else.

You are showing exactly what a hardware problem looks like. Although technically it can be a motherboard software bios problem. I personally can’t use memory XMP profile with 2 sticks and a lot of people can’t with ASUS motherboards. Disable XMP profile for ASUS motherboards. But if you aren’t using XMP profile give it a try as it can fix problems for some. Is your ram on the Qualified vendors list? Your mobo is rated at 2933mhz max for ram well depending on the cpu. If you use 3600mhz ram you need to run it at the slower speed. You may need to increase ram volts by a hair. From default increase it step by step until you get to +0.05v max. Use a memory testing program. The one in win10 is pretty good. I’ve had so many errors with mine in the past it’s not funny. But i now have a setting that works perfectly for me. These demanding games really stress test your whole computer and especially this game.

Sorry but I’m not gonna go through all this trouble to find a solution for THIS game in particular. Every other game in my PC always ran fine with no issues at all. I’m not a PC wizard and I don’t have to be. I’ve built my PCs over the past 10 years with the same vendor and this is the first time I’ve ever encountered a problem. The new Battlefield beta, warzone, Apex Legends, CS:GO, Diablo 3, Black Desert, and countless other games have never presented any problems. But it just so happens that New World is the most hardware demanding game of all time and our PC couldn’t handle it because they’re all built poorly. Right.

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its not that they are built poorly. its that the last 2 gens of videocard are trash. if you google radeon 6*** and nvidias 3*** series, you’ll see nothing but problems with games, RMAs, burnt out parts, issues with brands of ram that passed quality, but a bios update broke it. Hell the x570 rejects Corsair Vengeance

I had a crash on my 3080 ti after updating to the newest drivers. I reverted to old drivers (472.12) and no crashes since. Hope this helps!!

Glad someone gets it. Bravo.

I’m retired and no longer have access to information that my engineering company had. That being info on all the parts used in comps. graphic memory, vrms, you name it. I don’t know what the new graphic memory is rated at temp wise, Be it 100c or 105c or 110c. Is the throttling setting to high currently for Nvidia 3xxx video cards? I have questions but no answers. Even if the memory can handle that temp what about the VRMs? The memory temp goes up and pcb parts also increase as a result. The VRM temps go up and they then lose efficiency. As their efficiency decreases their temps so up as well as now they require more amps. So watts keep going up and up as temps rise. A very vicious cycle. This is why downclocking works for a lot of people. It’s all about the temps and consequently the watts.

I have a 2080 Super and cannot play the game unless I use a GPU tuning app to scale the power back to 70%. I had zero issues in beta, not sure why release is different.

*edit to add: If I leave my GPU at stock settings, I either crash at the menu or can play about 5min before my screen goes black and fans go to 100%.

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A somewhat technical explanation of what may be causing these problems…

there are older cards having problems

older parts tend to break if they are not cared for properly. twice a year i disassemble and clean my rx580

Just Ignore Wildtothebone, he’s been trolling in these posts about people getting their GPU bricked. He doesn’t even have the hardware to participate in this discussion, no offense

try an older driver 472.12 worked for me

I went pretty far back in driver revisions with no luck. I’ll try this though and let everyone know how it goes.

For what it’s worth, and I don’t claim that this applies to everyone, but the bricked EVGA GPUs in New World were identified to have been caused by a bad soldering connection in the first generation of the GPU. A five-minute Google search confirmed this. It’s pretty hard for a game using standard DirectX calls to brick a GPU, or it would be the sort of thing we’d see a LOT more often in graphics-intensive games or exploited by malware developers.

Before you send the card back, look to see if there is any information about when the card was manufactured, as EVGA identified a defect with a certain card run, and if they replaced your card with another one from that time, it would have the same problem. Make sure you get a card from a later manufacturing run if you can.

Use geforce now

LOL ya, the card run is “everything 30** series”

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Well, that’s no fun. :slight_smile:

My card is actually fine. Been playing for 3 weeks with no crashes now. However, NW did kill my corsair TX650M power supply. I installed a new PSU and have been running New World capped at 60 frames with GPU power set to 80% in MSI Afterburner. No trouble anymore. I would recommend anyone who is playing on a 30 series card do the same.

sounds like a hardware issue. “replaced power supply, works fine”