Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel

Crimson Desert is a massive game with a heap of weird and wonderful systems. Pet dress-up, anyone? What about riding a polar bear into battle? Even with animal affinities aside, that means a lot of moving parts, which in turn means many, many, many squeaky wheels crying out for grease.

As such, developer Pearl Abyss maintains a list of known issues that runs the gamut from quirky NPC behaviour, to the game simply not playing ball on some set-ups. You'll remember that Intel Arc GPU support wasn't available at launch, though now the game is somewhat playable. Although, I say 'somewhat' as even Pearly Abyss notes ongoing crashes and display issues when running Intel's upscaling tech XeSS.

Specifically, Pearl Abyss notes crashes on Intel Arc A770 GPUs when using XeSS, and that "the game screen does not display properly when 'Intel XeSS 3.0' or 'Intel XeSS Frame Generation' is enabled on Intel Arc A-series graphics cards." This is after the latest patch introduced improvements to "the quality of 'Intel XeSS 3.0' upscaling and 'Intel XeSS Frame Generation."

In other words, issues persist but Pearl Abyss appears to be working on it. That's just as well because XeSS isn't the only upscaling tech still coming a cropper in Pywal.

This week's patch made improvements to "the quality of 'AMD FSR Ray Regeneration'." However, according to the list of known issues, using the upscaling tech can still lead to blurry, rainy environments, as well as your screen whiting out if you happen to be gaming on an Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU.

Thankfully, developer Pearl Abyss has been pumping out patches since release, aiming to introduce a suite of improvements long-term. For one thing, this week's patch actually makes the house worth decorating now, and a control scheme refresh now makes it even easier to fly across Pywel.

Bottom line, Pearl Abyss is all-in on Crimson Desert for the foreseeable. Hopefully that means that gamers affected by the known upscaler issues shouldn't have to wait too long for their turn to drink in everything Pywel has to offer.

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