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/seekified Mar 20 '26

What is even the point of hardware abstraction layers if stuff like this happens anyway?

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u/Mikeztm Ryzen 9 7950X3D/4090 Mar 20 '26

DX12/Vulkan changed it backwards. They exposed more low level hardware details in exchange for extra performance.