r/CrimsonDesert

I’ve gotten so used to playing as Kliff alone that it occurred to me recently, like an epiphany, “oh yeah, I have two other players that I can play with”.

I’m on Chapter 12 and have been delaying the story for a while just exploring and trying to upgrade Kliff.

I was very disappointed to hit the Experience Bar limit and stopped getting abyss artifacts from combat. It occurred to me that I still had two other players to use!

Unfortunately, Oongka is away on a mission and can not be used at this time 🤣

"Performance should've been the priority". "I'm tired of getting pets". "CD isn't a Pokemon simulator". Uh maybe they HAVE been working on performance issues and they've been adding pets plus a bunch of smaller QoL fixes to keep us occupied in the meantime.

To quote a comment thread, it's like getting free French fries and chicken nuggets at a restaurant after the steak you ordered ended up ruined. People are forgetting that every single update including yesterday's have been free. As much as I want patch 1.13 to be fixed Asap if not today, the issues might take time or even be difficult to fix. The lighting issue for example, someone said there might be a problem deep within the game engine. I think people are acting like it's the end of the world or PA hasn't been known to have a good response time or respond at all.

Every single day I scroll my Reddit I see a post from someone in this sub saying something like "erm devs can you add x as a pet", "devs we totally need x as a mount!", "Can the devs add my ridiculous minigame idea", and my recent favorite "the devs should make it so Kliff can get into bar brawls".

Crimson Desert isn't a Real Life simulator. It wasn't even supposed to be single player originally, it was supposed to be an MMO. Pearl Abyss has been amazing with patches - but the problem is they're patching the fans most ridiculous ideas. The most recent patch was the ability to dye your weapon, a much requested add on, with many more things a normal player would never care about like making it so your bird pet you dropped 20 meat for can pick up loot, and it bugged the game out on Base PS5 down to like 20fps.

We don't need rainbow farting unicorn mounts, we don't need eating minigames, we don't need to dye the handle of our weapon well never see red, the game needs to be changed down to its fundamentals and it will never be because Pearl Abyss is a good company that listens too much to its adoring fans.

All of the armor and weapons need to stop being the same level and strength, it makes exploration and boss encounters not worth the trouble. No, the average new player isn't playing barbie with Kliff just having fun with slightly different cosmetics.

Performance and render distance on console needs an update.

The abyssal gear system needs an entire overhaul, there's no reason I should have 200 Abyss gears in my storage when my sword can only take 3 and my armor can only take 2

The UI in general needs an overhaul, the whole hidden menu thing for everything is just ridiculous

The map needs to not have every little Itty bitty marker on it that drops the frame rate itself when scrolling

No, Kliff doesn't need to use Damianes and Oongkas weapons, they should just be playable whenever you want instead of locked behind their own sections of chapters you'll never see

It should actually feel like you DID SOMETHING when you liberate strongholds or interact with the world. One of the biggest problems is that nothing you do in the game actually matters and the world just stays the same no matter what you do

There's so much about this game that needs to be changed and it just won't be because the devs at Pearl Abyss are too busy fulfilling every delusional fan who wants a life simulator. Matter fact I wouldn't doubt if that's why we don't even have any dlc yet

Hey everyone, I'm stuck with a brutal launch issue and hoping someone has a workaround.

I was playing Crimson Desert via NVIDIA GeForce NOW. After switching back to my local PC to play natively via Steam, the game completely refuses to boot. When I click "Play" on Steam, it briefly acts like it's launching, but then silently crashes back to the "Play" button. No display windows open, no splash screens, and absolutely no error messages or codes pop up.

Even navigating to the game files and running CrimsonDesert.exe directly as an Administrator results in the exact same instant, silent crash.

My System Specs:

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (Drivers completely up to date)
• Platform: Steam (PC)

What I Have Already Tried (None of this worked):

1. Cleared Cache Files: Deleted GFN's local CefCache folder and fully uninstalled GeForce NOW.
2. Verified Files: Ran "Verify integrity of game files" multiple times through Steam.
3. Overlays Disabled: Turned off Steam overlay, AMD Software/Adrenalin overlay, and Discord overlays.
4. Deleted Engine Configs: Deleted user_engine_option_save inside Local AppData to force default graphics settings.
5. Wiped Shader Cache: Used Windows Disk Cleanup to wipe the DirectX Shader Cache.
6. Launch Options: Tried forcing -dx11 and -dx12 via Steam launch settings.
7. Windows Security: Checked Windows Smart App Control, Media Feature Pack, and disabled Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS).
8. Steam Fixes: Cleared Steam's download cache and deleted local ssfn authorization tokens to clear any cloud-handshake lockouts.
9. Dedicated GPU Routing: Set Windows Graphics Settings to force high performance explicitly on the game's executable.

It feels like a hardware validation handshake failure or a Denuvo DRM account lock triggered by the cloud-to-local switch, but I'm fresh out of ideas.

Has anyone with an AMD card (specifically the 7800 XT) run into this after using GeForce NOW? Any suggestions on how to break this deadlock would be massively appreciated!

Loaded up my save and traveled into town and I'm getting what feels like 10 fps when looking into certain directions, and it's all over Hernand. Prior to this patch this town was playing smooth as butter.

If the next patch isn't a 'perfomance only' patch, what the f are we even doing anymore?

How is it acceptable that we're 3 months in and almost every single weekly patch has noticeably hindered perfomance?

At release, I was getting a smooth 60 fps on Ultra/Epic settings with FG and dlss set to quality.

It is now closer to 30 fps with dips into 20s with those same exact settings.

When will the games perfomance be a priority? At this point I'm half-expecting to be able to express my cats anal glands in-game before getting a smooth 60fps again.