Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Crimson Desert is built on Pearl Abyss's proprietary BlackSpace engine and uses DirectX 12. Upscaling support includes NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR 4. Frame generation is supported for both AMD and NVIDIA, NVIDIA MFG is supported, too. NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction and NVIDIA Reflex are available as separate toggles. AMD Ray Regeneration is also supported. No love for Intel—the Arc GPUs were originally blocked from launching the game entirely, with Pearl Abyss telling Arc owners to "seek refunds." After community backlash and Intel publicly stating they had offered optimization assistance for years, Pearl Abyss reversed course and allowed the game to boot on Arc GPUs—but rendering remains completely broken as of the latest version 1.01.02, producing a mostly black screen with severe artifacts. We expect Pearl Abyss and Intel to work together to resolve this in a future update. Ray tracing is available via a single on/off toggle. HDR and ultrawide 21:9 are fully supported.

techpowerup.com/review/crimson-desert-performance-benchmark

Intro: 0:00 - 0:27
VRAM & Settings: 0:27 - 1:40
Performance: 1:40 - 4:18
Path Tracing & Upscaling: 4:18 - 6:31
Outro: 6:31 - 6:53

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