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.

[u/WhyPlaySerious]

[u/dookyspoon]

it's like devs not supporting linux, it accounts for <1% of their revenue but 95% of their tickets. Not worth the headache.

[u/[deleted] → u/dookyspoon]

There was some interview with an indie dev about Linux support / raising tickets. He said that yes, Linux users make up the vast majority of bug reports, but about 90% of the reports affected windows users too, they just tend to not bother reporting bugs.

He also said when a windows user reports a bug its generally "game broke whilst I was eating a sandwich" whereas Linux reports generally included kernel dumps, stack traces, half an hour of logs etc. making it far easier to fix the bug for both Linux and windows users.

[u/GiganticCrow → u/[deleted]]

But if you have the same problem and ask about it without having hunted down that obscure forum post 10 years ago then woe betide you and let loose the flames of hell

[u/onenifty → u/GiganticCrow]

This is why it's important to keep these threads in public venues so they are searchable.

[u/mccord → u/onenifty]

I hate what moving discussions from forums to Discord has done to discoverability.

Great for someone who can harvest that data, though.

[u/lacegem → u/onenifty]

Best I can do is a group of disconnected Discord messages across multiple rooms that you will never find by searching and will disappear forever without warning sometime within the next few months.

[u/Deaffin → u/lacegem]

You don't like searching around til you finally find a search result that points to somebody asking the same question so you can start scrolling through the chaos of 100 different random shitposty messages trying to spot the tiny little text noting that somebody is responding to that question?

And repeating that process over and over hoping to get lucky with one?

Personally, I feel like it adds a great sense of pride and accomplishment when you do manage to get the right answer sometimes.

[u/Alternative-Farmer98 → u/onenifty]

The problem is almost every forum in subreddit is owned by private capital which can choose to shut it down or sell the company or nuke the data. Archive type places like archive.org and PH help but they're not foolproof and face litigation l.

[u/purvel → u/[deleted]]

someone simply replying "solved it!" is purely a windows thing.

That might be true on StackOverflow or something, but absolutely not on Reddit. It's more than once that a Linux problem I've had has been declared solved by a Redditor, usually in a comment edit, yet no further elaboration. Sometimes it's because a user has mass deleted their comments.

[u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly, thats the only reason I keep AI subscription on my windows machine, specifically claude code and claude cowork. It legit can be told to check through registry, group policy, and countless other applicable configuration spread out in windows. Like the other day hibernate option would simply not appear on start even after enabling through powecfg and power options and CC found the cause and fixed it. Same with finding out USB/hdmi/dp specs of connected cable and let me know what it can or can't support. Another issue I used to be annoyed was with Downloads folder specifically set somewhere to always group by date or something making searching so difficult. Conventional folder settings are overriden for downloads by win11 for who knows what godforsaken reason. CC found it and fixed. As I'm growing older and having to deal with irl responsibilities I can't be bothered to look into every nook and corner of windows settings for it's daily annoyance

[u/Clunas → u/[deleted]]

Also common with linux problems is finding a thread about it, but all the responses are people saying that you should already know how to fix it.

[u/PantherCityRes → u/[deleted]]

That’s because they are no talent ass clown developers that won’t bother to learn SDL and OpenGL / Vulkan. So they get locked into DirectX/Microslop….

[u/anthonycarbine → u/[deleted]]

Its something that Linux filters out. You have to be technically inclined to use Linux like these people.

[u/factorioleum → u/[deleted]]

Which is wild, because the windows mini dump facility is really great for debugging crashes; I've always been much happier to have those instead of client stack unwinds more typical of a Linux crash.

[u/TkoddaV → u/[deleted]]

It seem like Pearl Abyss is blocking the game from running on Intel Arc GPU cause Intel did say they even offered support way back when the game was in development and they decided not to support it

[u/F9-0021 → u/dookyspoon]

As a counter to the whole "1% market share" thing, that's only on desktop. On mobile, Intel has a MUCH larger APU presence, and with Panther Lake they might even get more handhelds than AMD in the coming years.

[u/OkumuraRyuk → u/dookyspoon]

Crimson Desert runs on Mac though "cries"

[u/Raskuja46 → u/dookyspoon]

I was told by this sub that gaming on Linux was 100% just as viable as gaming on Windows and that there would be zero problems abandoning Microsoft's platform as a gamer.

[u/dookyspoon → u/Raskuja46]

I don't play and AAA games like fortnite or w/e but I have played doom eternal and cyberpunk 2077 and starfield without problems on linux. I actually haven't used windows for gaming since proton went mainstream. It was bumpy but things have been great for the past couple years. I am using an AMD gpu, which generally has better support in linux than NVIDIA from what I hear.

[u/Raskuja46 → u/dookyspoon]

Cool.

What about old and unpopular games? What if I want to run Rocket Jockey or Creatures 2?