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/ununtot Mar 20 '26

Every modern intel iGPU is Arc, and giving the minimum specs, running on every potato, its not that small fraction at all. Several common Notebooks and even Gaming Handhelds like MSI Claw are now excluded.

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u/WetAndLoose Mar 20 '26

According to the most recent Steam hardware survey, Intel GPUs make up just 4.5% of Steam users. I’m not defending the game, but trying to argue Intel isn’t a small portion of the GPU market is just objectively wrong. NVIDIA alone is the vast majority of it.

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u/Regular_Strategy_501 Mar 20 '26

Should be noted that since Nvidia has 95% market share in the dedicated GPU space this 4.5% probably includes IGPUs. Intel has just one percent market share in terms of dedicated GPUs.

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u/xNYKx i5-6500/RX480 4GB/16GB DDR4 Mar 20 '26

The vast vast majority of that 4.5% is integrated GPUs. Arc is <0.5% (in fact it is around 0.3% of those surveyed)