

Chopping down trees outside a major settlement saw that drop down to 32fps, while running through the settlement averaged 24fps, with 99% lows down at a fairly hideous 6fps. Running along the shoreline, despatching some undead crewmates saw an average frame rate of 48fps at 4K on a GeForce RTX 2080 using the high settings.

Performance in New World ranges wildly depending on where you are and what you're doing. (Image credit: Amazon) New World best graphics settings - Performance You don't need competitive shooter frame rates, but you still need to be able to respond to combat properly. Note that there's no FSR or DLSS here, so if you do have to drop the resolution, it's not going to look great. If you can drop the resolution down, then it's a good idea. Having canvased the team using a range of hardware setups and our own suite of PCs, smooth framerates are possible with some tweaking, although as ever the resolution you're running at is going to be the biggest factor affecting performance. The good news is that it should hit decent frame rates on plenty of reasonable, i.e.

New World is the freshest MMO on the block, and having the best possible grinding experience is largely going to be down to how it performs on your system. Keeping an eye on your own GPU temperature isn't a bad idea either. In the New World beta, there were specific problems for EVGA RTX 3090 cards, and while things don't seem quite so bad with the released game, it's something we will keep an eye on. Reports are coming in of New World causing fresh problems with some PCs.
