New World
How do you find and process iron ore in New World? The new online role-playing game has an extensive crafting system to offer that beginners may find a little overwhelming at first. Iron ore, in particular, is one of the most important raw materials at the beginning of the hero’s career, as it is required for many better weapons and other equipment in the range of levels 5 to 20. At this point we will tell you where you can find the ore and how you process it.You can mine the iron ore from the corresponding veins, which are classified in many places in the New World game world (buy now 39.99 €). Open the map with M and click on "Places with raw materials". Then you see the color classification of the map and find iron ore areas.
From level 25 you will see iron ore on the map. Basically you can find iron ore in the area of the "highlands". Source: PC Games The mining skill does not play a major role here, by the way, as you can mine the ore with a value of 0. As soon as you reach level 25, you will get an indication of the nearby veins on the compass. To get the ore out, you need a pickaxe, which you have to equip beforehand. The veins come in three different sizes and you can extract up to 50 ore chunks from one deposit.
Smelting iron ore
However, there is not much that can be done with the ore itself. In order to be able to process it in weapons or other equipment, you have to melt it down in iron bars. For such a bar you need four ore chunks each. You will demonstrate the actual melting process in a melting furnace that you will actually find in every settlement. Incidentally, raw materials do not necessarily have to be in your inventory for processing. It is sufficient if they are in stock in the local warehouse.An interactive resource map for New World is also helpful.
New World PC performance guide: The best settings for optimized frame rates
New World is Amazon’s first foray into the world of video game publishing — and it made a splash when its beta began melting graphics cards. That’s not a problem anymore, thankfully, but that also doesn’t mean it’ll run smoothly across every PC hardware setup.
After testing the game at launch, we have put together a New World PC performance guide to help you get the best out of your system while playing the game. We’re going to cover the optimal settings to increase your frame rate, how the game runs across graphics cards and resolutions, and some of the unique options buried in the settings menu.
As is the case with other MMOs, your performance in New World is subject to your internet speed. Your connection won’t change anything about your frame rate, but it could make the game feel like it’s performing worse than it is.
The best settings for New World
Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of room for optimization in New World. There are four presets available, and we’d recommend sticking with them. The individual settings don’t offer a lot of extra performance on their own, so you can’t optimize New World like you can Control or Cyberpunk 2077.
After testing each setting individually, we found three that make most difference: Effects Details, Terrain Details, and Texture Details. Most of the other settings offered about a 3% increase in frame rate, while some offered no performance benefit at all.
We built out a list of optimized settings based off the Medium preset, balancing visual fidelity with performance:
There was virtually no difference between the settings above and the Medium preset. At most, we found a difference of only 3%, and that was only with the RTX 2060 Super at 1440p. Otherwise, our optimized settings were either within a frame of the Medium preset or identical.
In a game like New World, you shouldn’t take our settings list as law. Consider it a starting or reference point. As mentioned, Effects Detail, Terrain Details, and Texture Details impact performance the most. We decided to keep Terrain Details set to High, though. You’re going to look at the ground a lot in New World, and there’s a noticeable difference in visual quality between Medium and High.
Outside of settings, there are three main things that affect performance in New World: Resolution, the number of players on screen, and dense foliage. If you’re running into frame rate issues, we recommend bumping down to a lower resolution before adjusting settings manually. New World has a lot of resolution options, too, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
Otherwise, stick with the presets and adjust your settings from there. New World’s frame rate really changes when you bump down all of the settings at once, but you can gain a little extra performance by tweaking individual settings.
New World performance
AmazonWe took New World out for a spin with a few of the best graphics cards to give you an idea about how it performs. We chose the RTX 3090 for 4K, the RTX 2060 Super for 1440p, and the RX 580 for 1080p, and all three cards hit the mark like they should. All of the cards were paired with an Intel Core i9-10900K and 32GB of RAM.
Before diving into our results, let’s look at the minimum and recommend system requirements:
Minimum
Recommended
New World doesn’t call for powerful hardware. As we’ll see, though, the game can absolutely take advantage of it. If you’re diving into the game based on the minimum requirements, you’ll need to bump down your settings a lot and likely move to a resolution lower than 1080p.
1080p Very High1080p Optimized1440p Very High1440p Optimized4K Very High4K OptimizedRTX 3090168 fps174 fps135 fps149 fps85 fps111 fpsRTX 2060 Super98 fps136 fps65 fps90 fps32 fps45 fpsRX 58057 fps75 fps38 fps51 fps19 fps26 fpsAs you can see from our results, the largest performance difference comes in resolution. It’s hard to get consistent results from an MMO like New World since the number of players on screen plays a significant role in frame rate. Still, we can see a consistent trend with the lower-end cards. Both the RX 580 and RTX 2060 Super improved by around 50% moving from 4K to 1440p.
If you were hoping to play New World at 4K, you’ll need a hefty rig. The RTX 3090 can do it, but not by as much as its price would suggest. For 4K above 60 frames per second (fps), you’ll need an RTX 3070 or RTX 3070 Ti.
Fortunately, 1440p is a lot more forgiving. Last-gen’s RTX 2060 Super still performed above 60 fps with all of the sliders turned up, and even higher with our optimized settings. On the AMD side, you can expect similar performance out of the RX 5700 XT or RX 6600 XT.
Although the RX 580 got close to 60 fps at 1080p Very High, it still fell short. The GTX 1060 — which is the most popular graphics card according to Steam’s most recent hardware survey — is slightly better, so you can expect 60 fps at 1080p on Very High with that card. Optimizing the settings a bit can gain you back some performance, too.
The system requirements don’t tell the full story. If you based your rig on the minimum requirements, you’ll need to use the Low preset and likely bump down the resolution below 1080p. It seems the recommended system requirements are targeting 1080p with the Very High preset, though you might need to lower some settings to hit 60 fps.
Nameplates and dynamic resolution scaling
Outside of the main settings, there are two unique options in New World. You can change the number of nameplates — the names above characters — that show up on screen at once, and the game includes dynamic resolution scaling. Despite a warning that nameplates can severely affect frame rates, we didn’t note much of a difference with either setting.
We ran around the first hub you visit — which was crowded with a bunch of players — to test the nameplate setting. The results were identical between minimum (two) and maximum (100) number of nameplates. The bigger impact on performance was the number of players. Running this test, we found lower overall frame rates compared to our tests above.
That’s not to say that the nameplate setting is all hot air. It’s hard to find 100 people to stay on screen at once. We recommend sticking with the default setting of 15 nameplates on screen. Going down doesn’t change anything, and there isn’t a big reason to go up.
Dynamic resolution scaling was interesting. We tested each card at 4K on Very High to see how it would handle the upscaling. It seems the algorithm isn’t that aggressive, as the RTX 2060 Super and RX 580 showed almost no difference with the setting on. The RTX 3090, on the other hand, showed nearly an 18% improvement.
Basically, you should turn on dynamic resolution scaling after you have your settings and resolution dialed in. It can help, but the dynamic resolution won’t save your frame rate in the way something like Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) will. Unfortunately, DLSS isn’t in New World, at least not at launch.
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