How does this happen?
Ah, here's why & a suggested fix: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/t ... d=msedgntp
In New World, press the Escape key to open the Settings menu.
Click the Visuals tab.
Under Max FPS, cap the FPS at 60.
Players are reporting that capping the FPS is successfully preventing their graphics cards from overheating. It seems that the reason why New Worlds is putting GPUs at risk is because the menus don't have built-in FPS caps like other games do, causing elite graphics cards like the RTX 3090 to render the menus in 9000+ FPS and burn themselves out.