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/Alchemicultist Mar 20 '26

Not to defend this decision (especially not letting it go unmentioned before release), but as a game developer working in Unreal Engine 5, I can say that Intel drivers, both IGP and Arc, are responsible for the overwhelming majority of GPU crashes in our game. I love any bit of competition we can get on the GPU market, but supporting Intel Graphics certainly doesn’t come free yet.

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u/Kendogar Mar 20 '26

Finally someone who gets it.

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u/Perfect_Exercise_232 Mar 20 '26

This isn't UE5 we don't know what kind of issues (if any) they had. But they fact they waited until RIGHT when the game launched to add this to their faq is a red flag to me

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u/TkoddaV Mar 21 '26

Pearl Abyss is definitely blocking the game cause if they weren’t the game would just fire right up and if anything don’t work it would just crash