mixelplx
Has anyone found a work around the black screen/fans going to 100% issue yet?

Would undervolting the card help or is it inevitably going to fail?

Contact EVGA support if you have that issue.  They may issue you a RMA for a new card.

Got my 3090 FTW3 Ultra replaced because it "killed" my Card in the open beta (steam) a few weeks ago.
 
Tried to start the released game today, only switched in the Menu to 4k -> blackscreen 100% fans. Luckily after i cut the power off the card works again. Definitely not trying this game again.

ty_ger07
I am curious to know, for the people who have Rev 1.0 3090s, and still have the black screen/100% fan issue in the public release of New World, what percentage are using the XOC VBIOS. I suppose that we will never know. But, that being said, if someone is having the black screen/100% fan thing happen, and their card has not yet failed, and their BIOS switch is in the XOC position, if you switch the BIOS back to the normal position (and power off, reboot, etcetera as necessary), does that have a positive impact on the ability to play the game?

I think you may have worded that a little odd. The oc bios only changes fan curve and nothing else this gen by default. If they do have the xoc 500w bios flashing back to the nornal one may be worth a try though

My 3090 bricked playing new world today on med setting 60fps cap. Purchased December 2020. I’m pursuing a full refund as I’ve lost my faith in evga after reading replaced cards still bricking from this game..

demon09

B0baganoosh
I find it wild that this game is coded in such a way that it does a better job exposing weaknesses in gpus than occt or furmark. I'm not blaming the game because if the cards were designed and manufactured properly, they wouldn't fail from a game, but it seems... Crazy. How bad is the engine? Are the graphics even good? Images I've seen so far don't really make it seem like some kind of new Crisis.

furmark is limited these days in the driver level they added it way back during the 500 or 600 series its been a while. but you can find lots of things that hit harder then furmark. super postion 4k comes to mind or even lots of really heavy gpu games can hit the gpu harder then furmark. furmark used to be the prime 95 of gpu stress tests but its been a while since it was 

The superposition 4k is $19.95 to allow stress test loop.  Do you have a free alternative that is more appropriate?  Cryengine Noir would be great but I don't see a stress test option.


This is very bizarre that this one game is causing this problem on this one 3090 board.
 

I too am joining the 3090 black screen, fans 100% club this morning. Frames capped at 90 FPS. However, yesterday I played for about 4 hours with frames capped at 60 and was fine for those few hours. Not willing to try again until I can confirm from EVGA that I'm covered.

ShadowNinja714
I tried playing just about half an hour ago with my 3090 FTW Ultra
As soon as I launched the game instant black screen and 100% fans.  Had to hold power to get the PC to shut off.  
I didn't even get to the main menu of the game to set any caps.
 
After 2 reboots I am back up and running... for now.
 
I purchased my card back in October and even emailed EVGA to check and make sure it was ok to run.  This is the response I got back:
 
"Hello, 
We have already tracked down the units that were affected which was an extremely small batch. There should not be any concerns with your card. 
Regards. 
EVGA"
 
So now I await a response from them again on if I should be starting an RMA or what not.

put fps cap in nvidia control panel
 

austinhouk802

ShadowNinja714
I tried playing just about half an hour ago with my 3090 FTW Ultra
As soon as I launched the game instant black screen and 100% fans.  Had to hold power to get the PC to shut off.  
I didn't even get to the main menu of the game to set any caps.
 
After 2 reboots I am back up and running... for now.
 
I purchased my card back in October and even emailed EVGA to check and make sure it was ok to run.  This is the response I got back:
 
"Hello, 
We have already tracked down the units that were affected which was an extremely small batch. There should not be any concerns with your card. 
Regards. 
EVGA"
 
So now I await a response from them again on if I should be starting an RMA or what not.

I followed the above advice and capped the FPS in Nvidia Control Panel for this one app only. I capped it yesterday to 60FPS and ran fine for about 3 hours before bed. This morning I kicked it up to 90FPS and had a black screen / 100% fans after about 30 minutes. I'm not CERTAIN that they are related or not, just reporting my findings so far.

I just got a phone call from EVGA, they are starting an advanced RMA for my card. 
They did confirm it was a re-certified card that was "fully tested" and will still be covered by my warranty so we will see what happens.

Howdy!
 
Wanted to share my experience with my 2nd 3090 FTW3 which was up to shenanigans last night also.  My original 3090 lasted 3 days after initial install.  Was in the first wave of cards shipped.  Was replaced and has been working perfectly in every game since.  Also have a Hydro Kit installed on it.
 
So, yesterday pop on New World at 0830ish Central, and enter the queue.  Left this running until the queue ran down and I was in the game at 1845ish.  Started the new player experience and ran for 15-20 minutes then Black Screen - All Fans full and PC shut down.  Paused.  Took a deep breath.  Cycled the Power supply.  Rebooted and everything was back to normal.  Started the Precision software, things looked normal.  Tried to get back into New World.  No dice, back in the queue.  Deleted character and went on low population server.
 
Then started watching numbers in icx the only one that was aberrant was Power4.  Everything else was in the 50s to low 60s.  Power4 shot to 74.  Started playing and played for a short while.  Black Screen - All Fans full and PC shut down.  Panicked a little.
Rebooted.  All normal.
 
So, decided this time to lower the power target to 53% in Precision.  Went back in to New World.  Power4 never got above 54.  Played for 3 and half hours then went to bed.  Noticed no difference in game performance.  I am running the game capped at 60 in 2k and everything on High.  Ran smooth as silk even with the power turned down.
 
This morning fired up Tarkov with all the default settings on the card in Precision and everything ran perfectly, just like it always does.
 
Not really sure what any of this means, hope it is just an outlier on this game causing some odd behavior.

Whats odd is I can run FurMark or Unigine Benchmarks at 4K and 8K defaults (uncapped FPS), resulting in my 3090 at 99% utilization for 10 minutes or longer, but New World at 2K at a CAPPED FPS is ruining peoples graphics cards... somehow.
 
How is this possible???

B0baganoosh

austinhouk802
Whats odd is I can run FurMark or Unigine Benchmarks at 4K and 8K defaults (uncapped FPS), resulting in my 3090 at 99% utilization for 10 minutes or longer, but New World at 2K at a CAPPED FPS is ruining peoples graphics cards... somehow.
 
How is this possible???

I mean Furmark has been driver-tamed for a while ....

If Furmark wasn't "driver-tamed" (throttled in the driver), maybe it would also be causing this problem. Do you think they might "driver-tame" New World in order to account for their hardware shortcomings?

Tigerheli79
I tried to play New World on my 3090 ftw3 today, black displays and gpu fans went nuts. Crashed after only minutes in game. I held the power button on the tower to shut it down right away. Rebooted and refunded New World. Someone better fix this. cards are getting fried.

New world isn’t the issue. Bad card pcb build quality is the problem. Kingpin and founders edition cards work fine with this game.

Sajin

Tigerheli79
I tried to play New World on my 3090 ftw3 today, black displays and gpu fans went nuts. Crashed after only minutes in game. I held the power button on the tower to shut it down right away. Rebooted and refunded New World. Someone better fix this. cards are getting fried.

New world isn’t the issue. Bad card pcb build quality is the problem. Kingpin and founders edition cards work fine with this game.

I would partially disagree. New World aided in pointing out manufacturer issues with the earlier batches of specific models, but NO GAME should be coded in such a way to indirectly target certain weak spots of cards. There IS something going on with New World whether you, or anyone else, wants to admit it or not, AS WELL as with EVGA and other manufacturers processes too.
 
I shouldnt be able to run Furmark or Unigine at 8K for an hour with 99% utilization and no FPS cap and have NO ISSUES, but New World causes game breaking, and sometimes card destroying, issues at 2K and anything higher than 60fps.

austinhouk802

Sajin

Tigerheli79
I tried to play New World on my 3090 ftw3 today, black displays and gpu fans went nuts. Crashed after only minutes in game. I held the power button on the tower to shut it down right away. Rebooted and refunded New World. Someone better fix this. cards are getting fried.

New world isn’t the issue. Bad card pcb build quality is the problem. Kingpin and founders edition cards work fine with this game.

I would partially disagree. New World aided in pointing out manufacturer issues with the earlier batches of specific models, but NO GAME should be coded in such a way to indirectly target certain weak spots of cards. There IS something going on with New World whether you, or anyone else, wants to admit it or not, AS WELL as with EVGA and other manufacturers processes too.
 
I shouldnt be able to run Furmark or Unigine at 8K for an hour with 99% utilization and no FPS cap and have NO ISSUES, but New World causes game breaking, and sometimes card destroying, issues at 2K and anything higher than 60fps.

A game shouldn't be able to do this to a card because the card should have protections against this type of thing, either at the hardware level or at the firmware/VBIOS level. Yeah, there's something weird about what New World is doing that causes this vulnerability to be exposed, but ultimately this is a card vulnerability that should be corrected by the card manufacturer. If the vulnerability exists it could be exploited on purpose at some point in the future. 

jaredbyoung

austinhouk802

Sajin

Tigerheli79
I tried to play New World on my 3090 ftw3 today, black displays and gpu fans went nuts. Crashed after only minutes in game. I held the power button on the tower to shut it down right away. Rebooted and refunded New World. Someone better fix this. cards are getting fried.

New world isn’t the issue. Bad card pcb build quality is the problem. Kingpin and founders edition cards work fine with this game.

I would partially disagree. New World aided in pointing out manufacturer issues with the earlier batches of specific models, but NO GAME should be coded in such a way to indirectly target certain weak spots of cards. There IS something going on with New World whether you, or anyone else, wants to admit it or not, AS WELL as with EVGA and other manufacturers processes too.
 
I shouldnt be able to run Furmark or Unigine at 8K for an hour with 99% utilization and no FPS cap and have NO ISSUES, but New World causes game breaking, and sometimes card destroying, issues at 2K and anything higher than 60fps.

A game shouldn't be able to do this to a card because the card should have protections against this type of thing, either at the hardware level or at the firmware/VBIOS level. Yeah, there's something weird about what New World is doing that causes this vulnerability to be exposed, but ultimately this is a card vulnerability that should be corrected by the card manufacturer. If the vulnerability exists it could be exploited on purpose at some point in the future. 

This is true. I am not disagreeing with that whatsoever. That said, why is New World putting this kind of load on the cards? Isn't it totally unnecessary? Also, to Sajin's point, furmark was driver and BIOS limited ages ago by Nvidia, but why haven't they stepped in to limit this new power virus that is damaging their cards?