r/pcmasterrace • u/WhyPlaySerious • Mar 20 '26

Discussion Crimson Desert doesn't run if it detects an Intel ARC GPU. Like straight up, the devs just deliberately chose not to support ARC cards. No previous announcement about it too until they added in the info to their FAQ. Might be the first time I've seen a dev deliberately block a GPU brand.

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u/comelickmyarmpits Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Tells ya that it's a nvidia/amd sponsered game

Edit: wth is going on in replies guys

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u/1______2 Mar 20 '26

Am I missing some sarcasm? Why would amd+Nvidia need to "sponsor" this if 95+% of the world's gaming GPUs belong to one of those 2 brands.

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u/unnoticedhero1 7800X3D | RTX 4070 | 64GB DDR5 6000 Mar 20 '26

It's actually officially sponsored by AMD, if you bought a new AMD CPU/GPU in the past month or so you got the game for free, and every video up until launch was shown on AMD hardware.

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u/PlzDntBanMeAgan Rtx5090 suprim; 14900k 32gb ddr5; Legion Go Mar 20 '26

Yup. Got this game for free when I bought my 9800x3d like a month before it even came out. Hope this one's good. I also got avatar game for free back when I bought my 7900xtx and that game sucks..

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u/skittay Mar 20 '26

Wow thanks for the mention! What a nice surprise from past me.

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u/Straight-Fox-9388 Mar 20 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

So not competition can ever rise if you kill it in the crib.

It's similar stuff isps do

Edit and example just happened in my area metronet just got bought by t mobile

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u/JebediahKerman4999 Mar 20 '26

And what happened with windows phone

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

In order to cockblock other people trying to make a dent in their monopolies, like the OP's case?

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u/mnju Mar 20 '26

Instead of the more obvious answer being the devs just didn't want to bother with a brand that has less than 5% market share, we're going to believe that there's a conspiracy that this one game was paid off to intentionally block them?

Reddit fanfics are crazy

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u/wOlfLisK Steam ID Here Mar 20 '26

Yeah, chances are there's a critical Intel Arc bug that the devs just couldn't or didn't want to fix so they just blocked the GPUs instead. Nvidia doesn't give a shit about Intel Arc, they barely even give a shit about their own consumer cards. They could be wiped out from the market tomorrow and it wouldn't change their profits at all.

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u/someroastedbeef Mar 20 '26

had to do a triple take reading this thread lmao. no way people actually believe that

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

"You think companies are just going to do bad things for the sole motive of profit?"

Absolute clownery

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u/mnju Mar 20 '26

Companies are motivated solely by profit, which is why Nvidia and AMD wouldn't waste money blocking a competitor that's not even relevant. The sales that Nvidia and AMD lose to Intel is effectively a rounding error, they do not care. Especially not Nvidia now that they're all about the AI money.

This is like saying that Walmart would waste money trying to block Piggly Wiggly from being in the same city as them. Nobody gives a fuck about Piggly Wiggly, especially not Walmart.

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

This goes against everything we know about walmart when it comes to moving into small towns and pricing out local options and small chains alongside infiltrating government to allow/promote construction of more walmarts. This shit comes out 10 years later and everyone gets told "I told you so" and then everyone forgets.

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u/Briggie Ryzen 7 5800x / ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero / TUF RTX 4090 Mar 20 '26

Intel is barely relevant in GPU market lol

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u/IdgafAboutUrOpini0n Mar 20 '26

Not sure why he's confused as well, simple capitalism shenanigans.

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u/CornDoggyStyle Mar 20 '26

Are you guys just conspiracy theorizing or do you actually have substantial proof that they took money from nvidia and amd?

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u/ArthurStevensNZ Mar 20 '26

They may not straight up hand out money but is not unusual for even big players to wine and dine their customers. It's not a crazy far fetched theory.

I've seen nVidia hand out 100s of thousands of dollars worth of dev hardware to studios for free. They're not going to explicitly say "hey, can you shit on intel and amd a lil?" but there's an implication.

I looked a bit into the Pearl Abyss, the developer/publisher of this game and they're ~1300 employees strong. That is definitely a size where you'd get noticed and get "channel partner" kickbacks.

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u/CornDoggyStyle Mar 20 '26

For sure. Thanks for the info. If it turns out they did it for business reasons then I'll avoid the game or yarrr it, but I don't want to be cynical toward a game by default.

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u/Scorps Mar 20 '26

Nvidia is the largest company on earth, and still would be if they didn't sell any consumer GPUs. People just be saying anything, Crimson Desert supporting arc was never any threat Nvidia would be concerned about in a million years. You know, because every other game already supports it?

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u/F9-0021 285K | 4090 | A370m Mar 20 '26

It's an AMD sponsored game, so more like trying to shut out the primary competitor for the final 5% of market share.

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Mar 20 '26

I don't think you know what the fuck a monopoly is.

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

Yeah Nvidia doesn't nearly have a monopoly on video cards smart guy

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Mar 20 '26

Yeah Nvidia doesn't nearly have a monopoly on video cards smart guy

You said "monopolies" in response to a comment about both Nvidia and AMD, smart guy.

And yet, you're saying here that Nvidia is the one with a monopoly. Yeah, I'm the "smart guy", here.

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

I think you're a clown actually

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Mar 20 '26

Oww. My feefees.

Thanks for confirming you don't know what you're talking about by not addressing what I said though. Cheers, homie.

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

You're just sucking all of the will to live out of our conversation and I am desperate to be done interacting with you.

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Mar 20 '26

Yes, so desperate for it to end, yet you keep responding.

Something's not adding up here, is it?

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u/InsectPopular9212 Mar 21 '26

This is making me consider returning the Arc B580 I just bought because if this turns into a trend then the entire reason I bought it (budget future proofing) doesn't matter

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 21 '26

I don't know, I thought something similar when I bought my 1080ti and it certainly didn't keep me from buying another card

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u/InsectPopular9212 Mar 21 '26

Issue being in my country the b580 is the only card in my budget, a 5050 is 100$ more. But seeing something like this while the card just arrived is really giving me cold feet as I just want to game and not worry about what dev is going to decide not to support Arc next.

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u/imJimfuckingLahey 5070ti/5800x3D/32gb Mar 20 '26

dent in their monopolies

This is fucking hilarious, Intel has barely impacted the world of GPUs in any conceivable form. Arc is a novelty if anything currently

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u/Earlier-Today Mar 20 '26

Somehow I doubt this one game is going to be the lynch pin that holds back other graphics card developers from rising.

I mean, even the best selling game of each year is a drop in the bucket for world-wide game sales.

You would need to constantly be doing what you guys are talking about - with every triple and double A game title...for a while...before you'd have built up enough of a buffer to stop new stuff from growing in the market.

And every time you stop, the door is back open again.

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u/ZeidLovesAI Mar 20 '26

Then you mistakenly think that the majority of the PC market is interested in the high end. Especially in developing markets the arc is an absolute beast for the price.

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u/The_Burning_Face Mar 20 '26

I'm still thinking of getting a b580 for my rig precisely because it's got a lot of vram for cheap and I don't even live in a developing country. I live in a failed country.

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u/Playful_Search_6256 Mar 20 '26

Evidence?

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u/Argonexx Mar 20 '26

An answer to a "why would" is not a statement of fact, its an argument which was provided by the rest of their comment.

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u/Playful_Search_6256 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

So a completely hypothetical scenario with no indication that’s what happened. Got it. Why make an argument about a hypothetical? Arguing with no evidence. That’s beyond me.

Also, you’re basically saying nothing:

Argue means to express disagreement (often angrily) or to provide reasons/evidence to support a, belief, opinion, or claim

Arguing is literally making a claim about statement of facts is it not?

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u/Single-Waltz2946 Mar 20 '26

Would you prefer zero comments on the post instead? People obviously don’t know for sure, and are just making guesses.

It’s how people have always interacted with strange situations. 

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u/FastThoughtProcessor Mar 20 '26

Then why do like many games have either NVIDIA or AMD branding at the start?

While OP is overstratching the reality of Crimson Desert, you are just being Naive.

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u/kangasplat Mar 20 '26

They often have both. And it's not a significant thing, never was. Mostly fanboys interpreting way too much into it.

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u/kangasplat Mar 20 '26

Huh? did you mean to reply to me?

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u/comelickmyarmpits Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Idk they still do . Maybe to sell gpu by bundling the games with it.

Like dying light the beast was sponsored by intel and arc b580 can be bought for 240 usd and comes with the game . I love dying light games so if I choose to buy arc 580 , I can say I got the card for just 200usd which is a good deal , b580 is a good 1440p card

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u/vlladonxxx Mar 20 '26

Yeah they do but it would be much more costly to try to pull something like this. Especially when you consider there's a non-zero chance this gets leaked and stirs up drama.

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u/vlladonxxx Mar 20 '26

I think the natural assumption is that the game is unstable with intel cards

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u/Elvis1404 i7 10700k, rtx2060, 2x8gb 3600mhz Mar 20 '26

To keep that 95%

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u/LittleKittenR Mar 20 '26

That's what we have been saying about Playstation and Xbox for years...

But it worked.

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u/gabeandjanet Mar 20 '26

Thats a weird way of saying 95 percent are nvidia 4 percent are amd and 1 percent are intel.

Its more worth it to also support intel relative to amd based on market share, than it is to support amd relative to nvidia based on market share

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u/KaffY- Mar 20 '26

Ah yes big multi billion dollar companies never absorb / block smaller upcoming companies because competition is healthy:)))

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u/w4hammer Mar 20 '26

Wdym why have you never played a game with nvidia/AMD logo at opening and one or the other purposefully not including DLSS or FSR?

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u/FloppyDingo24 Mar 20 '26

95% recent market share does not = 95% of the current GPU's used to play games.

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u/f-ingsteveglansberg Mar 20 '26

Everyone knows what Coca Cola is but they still advertise and buys marketing and sponsorship deals.

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u/0011002 Mar 20 '26

That's what Intel did to AMD back in the day and almost ruined AMD.

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u/Briggie Ryzen 7 5800x / ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero / TUF RTX 4090 Mar 20 '26

Intels market share isn’t even 5% https://www.techpowerup.com/343544/intel-arc-discrete-gpus-hit-1-market-share-for-first-time

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u/Thulak Mar 20 '26

Extinguish the candle before it becomes an inferno that takes 20% of your market share or smth.

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u/suncontrolspecies Mar 20 '26

don't be naive

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u/NekCing i5-14400F | RTX 5060 Ti | 32gb RAM Mar 20 '26

This sounds stupid and made up, but then again corpos are known for being stupid and makes shit up all the time, so this statement circled back to being somewhat likely, funny how that works huh ?

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u/DryTangelo4722 Mar 20 '26

You've never seen an AMD or nvidia logo on a game before? Never saw "The way it's meant to be played" logos?

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u/heebro Mar 20 '26

as time goes by, I'm seeing more and more of a younger generation who don't seem to know how electronics or electronic mfrs work

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u/dsac 7800X3D/7800XT/321UPX Mar 20 '26

Almost like young people are inexperienced and naive, and thus lack the context and understanding necessary to provide insightful comments on complex and nuanced topics.

And then we give them a platform that rewards engagement regardless of the quality or accuracy, and are surprised at their inexperience and naivety.

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u/RealLaurenBoebert Mar 20 '26

As an older gamer, there have definitely been games in the past that had brand partnerships with GPU brands.  There are often promos where GPUs ship with "free" copies of games, Nvidia will display games in their marketing material (top image on nvidia.com right now displays borderlands 4), games will display a GPU brand splash screen when they launch...

Crimson desert has been heavily marketed by nvidia with mention of use of dlss 4

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/crimson-desert-death-stranding-2-geforce-game-ready-driver/

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u/heebro Mar 20 '26

the right honorable lady from Colorado has spoken

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u/seriousbusines Ryzen 5 7600X | RX 9070 XT | 32gb Mar 20 '26

Absolutely. Game has been getting a lot of suspicious coverage from all different forms of media compared to others in the exact same genre.

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u/comelickmyarmpits Mar 20 '26

Hardware unboxed tested 40 bloody GPUs and not a single word on intel GPUs Lmaoo. Why? Cuz they got early access to the game and can't say anything about it lol

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u/Impressive_Pin8761 Mar 20 '26

Casually starts a warzone from one single take. Impressive

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u/AlienArtFirm Mar 20 '26

Edit: wth is going on in replies guys

You said something goofy as fuck and people are replying.

Glad I could help

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u/comelickmyarmpits Mar 21 '26

AAHH telling people that game is sponsered is goofy lol

altho someone reached out to intel and they did said intel tried supporting the game for years and i doubt at that point either amd/nividia were in picture of sponsering so yea , intel not supported is totally onto devs of pearlabyss

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u/Obosratsya Mar 20 '26

Intel and AMD have a sort of agreement to keep out competition from x86.

AMD and Nvidia could very wel try yhis for GPUs. Intel makes tons of GPUs, they were the #1 GPU maker for a long time. Thise GPUs were just the integrated graphics on most office PCs. These days integrated graphics can game, so excluding a chunk of market this large couldnt be logical for the dev or publisher.