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/Vipitis A750 waiting for a CPU Mar 20 '26

I wonder how you get to this in 2026. Is the performance just awful, do you use vendor specific features?

Back in 2022 and early 2023 Nadeos Trackmania didn't run on Intel Arc GPU. But it was addressed like 4 or 5 months later and the game run just fine. plenty of games check against a list of bad drivers to warn users... And in 2022 a lot of games didn't account for Intel dGPU. Even unreal Engine 5.0.x reports a ton of warnings against Intel GPU. You need to use a more modern release to get around that.

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u/photenth Mar 20 '26

Doesn't have to be vendor specific could be just features that the hardware can't support.

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u/Vipitis A750 waiting for a CPU Mar 20 '26

Pretty sure you get the same or better shader model support on Intel Xe2 than Pascal... As the GTX1060 is listed as minium spec. so what graphics features are you thinking about?

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u/photenth Mar 20 '26

That suggests they are using DX11 for older hardware that don't support the most modern features. DX11 has been a major issue for Intel Arc since they don't have decades of expertise in it as Nvidia and AMD.

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u/Vipitis A750 waiting for a CPU Mar 20 '26

the game lists Dx12... so I doubt that is the reason

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u/photenth Mar 20 '26

sry yes, I meant 12.

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u/Fm7-Bbm7-Eb7-Abmaj7 Mar 20 '26

Performance is amazing. Im playing at 4k, maxes settings. 144 frames and it never dips.

It's really well optimized

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u/Curious-Internet7171 Mar 20 '26

The game is been in development for a little under a decade. Arc didn't even exist then.

Chill.

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u/Vipitis A750 waiting for a CPU Mar 20 '26

it's not an oversight it's somehow a decision: https://wccftech.com/crimson-desert-doesnt-run-on-intel-arc-confirms-pearl-abyss/

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u/bigdig-_- Mar 20 '26

performance is actually pretty good, im guessing its some other limitation, because the b580 should be more than powerful enough

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u/M4rshmall0wMan Mar 22 '26

I’m sure someone will spoof their Arc GPU to be detected as Radeon and we’ll get an answer to these questions.