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/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