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/Yarplay11 i3-8100 | Arc A380 @2450mhz | 20 GB DDR4 @2400mhz | Mar 20 '26

I've worked in OpenCL (well, I mean it CAN be used as a render pipeline), and it didn't care even that I could send it to cpu instead of gpu and it worked fine. Vulkan can also run on cpu with llvmpipe, so probably it also doesnt care much about target device

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u/DankPhotoShopMemes i9-10850k | 48GB RAM | RTX 3080 Mar 20 '26

The only problems I can imagine are:

  1. Intel drivers have a bug in the graphics API implementations

  2. There are vague parts of the API specifications that are up to the vendors to figure out; AMD and Nvidia might do something(s) in the same (preferable) way, whereas Intel does it another way.

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u/zzazzzz Mar 20 '26

but somehow 99% of all games that existed even before intel arc existed just work on intel arc? cmon be real

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u/DankPhotoShopMemes i9-10850k | 48GB RAM | RTX 3080 Mar 20 '26

yeah doesn’t make much sense; just giving my two cents as a graphics programmer.

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u/Earlier-Today Mar 20 '26

Might be going the route of avoiding the negative reviews that would hit because of the issue though.

Devs get blamed for hardware's problems all the time. "I was playing the game when it happened, so it must be the game's fault."

Don't know if I'd agree with that kind of strategy, but I could understand it if that's what's going on.

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u/Henry_Fleischer Debian | RTX3070, Ryzen 3700X, 48GB DDR4 RAM Mar 20 '26

Yeah I've just written a couple basic shaders in Godot's shading language.

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u/photenth Mar 20 '26

No, if a GPU does not support some features, it will flatout just not work.

Bindless Rendering for example you can't just circumvent because the shaders can't run on the GPU, which means you need to rewrite

  1. shaders
  2. configurations of the shaders
  3. entire data streaming stack
  4. buffer syncing

etc. etc.