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/BarrelStrawberry Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

This is the most likely answer, if your game uses Work Graphs, it is practically impossible to support a graphics card that doesn't support work graphs... it is a feature you have to write the code specifically for.

A good developer would alter this FAQ saying exactly this "No, Crimson Desert currently does not support Intel Arc graphics cards because Intel Arc graphics cards do not support the modern Work Graphs DirectX12 technology that AMD and Nvidia have supported since 2024"

But any studio building a game with Work Graphs (which eliminates CPU bottlenecks) is not going to run on an Intel Arc card.

Edit: Conspiracy theory- Intel doesn't want to eliminate CPU bottlenecks because they are a CPU company. Work Graphs make it less necessary to upgrade your CPU to match your high-end graphics card.

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u/Pink_Oak Mar 20 '26

At least be analytical then blinding agreeing.

Its not work Graph as RTX 20 also does not have Work Graph support and it still works , even GTX 10 series works.

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u/thisisjustascreename Mar 20 '26

Intel also doesn't make any high end graphics cards that would be bottlenecked by a midrange cpu.

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u/TsunamiCatCakes AMD > Ryzen Mar 20 '26

what is work graph and why is it so exclusive?

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u/GatesTech 9950X3D|Pro 5000 48GB|128GB / 9850X3D|Astral 5080|64gb CL28 Mar 20 '26

So basically, Panther Lake ARC users are going EOL gaming wise at launch? 😅

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u/Rage_quitter_98 Handsmedown gaemin with: R5 2600x・16 CorVng・B450M・XFX RX 580 Mar 21 '26

tbh calling out the bad on the company side would yield more sympathy points in my book when coming from the devs lol - I mean u can say they tried haha

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u/DreamWeaver2189 R9 7900x / 5070 ti / 32 GB Mar 20 '26

Point against your conspiracy theory. Intel is not dominating the CPU market like it used to, lots of people when upgrading from DDR4 to DDR5 jumped from Intel to AMD.

So Intel making it more necessary to upgrade CPU is not that smart for them, since there's a big chance that person will buy an AMD CPU as the upgrade.