After Update - Increased Hardware Usage?

[Reaver]

I am running at the minimum requirements (although I am not using AMD) but instead an old FX-8350 paired with 1060. Ive noticed my normal 70-80 GPU & 40-60 CPU usage has climbed into 80-95% usage steadily since the update. Nothing appears in the patch notes but I have also noticed a significant change in weather and lighting. Such as better fog, rain, and overall lighting is amazing. The game just looks well polished compared to beforehand. That had me thinking, maybe my settings were changed? Nope. I still have everything set to the lowest with VSYNC off. I have ensured this is the ONLY task on my PC. Curious what others are thinking? I do intend to fully upgrade this PC starting with the CPU over time (bought it and the 1060 2nd hand specifically for this game). But any ideas to lower this? Or just run with it? I have heard reports of GPUs overheating on this game, and Id rather not lose the PC all together before I upgrade it. My GPU reached 75 before I gave it a break (usually neither GPU or CPU were going above 60). I dont have much experience with PC gaming if you cant tell. My last and first PC was Ryzen 5 5100, dont recall the GPU but it was a $700 prebuilt. My current PC runs things at minimum settings (CPU issue I assume) but the last one ran almost every game at max 4 years ago. Figured Id chime in on the development of the game because I was big with Jagex/Runescape between 2004-2014. Childhood lifestyle as with all. This game has been catching a lot of heat (pun intended) and I just want to say that when New World came out, I immediately realized Jagex needs to hop on the bandwagon and BOY DID THEY NAIL IT. Cant wait for all the possible content/DLCs/etc that can be done here. Far better developer than AGS btw

[GafferGragz]

Not to an extent that I've noticed, as this game is not optimised like at all, low quality settings is good quality game experience it seems

[Bornicey]

This thing is pushing my top end pc after the last update no clue why this pushs harder than apex, marvel, fort etc.

[Rontonswan]

Same here my system can handle all AAA games even at high or epic settings at above 60fps and I never have heating issues. This game overheats my cpu and causes fail safe crashes which is something I have never encountered with any demanding game, much more demanding on my system then this one. They have some serious optimization issues they need to fix asap. Afraid it was so hot that my cpu could have been damaged,

[Masquerine]

I'm on a radeon rx 570 on lowest with direct x 11, as well as manually adding in lines to the config to disable blur and the like. The game still runs hotter than anything I've played before. It peaks at 60c for me now but it did try to overheat my gpu before.
People with far better computers than mine are having issues.

[GafferGragz]

Guys, this game is not optimised yet. lower your demand as this is a BETA early access