ThreadCrimson Desert’s Charting the Unknown Is Doing Something Most Open-World DLC Never Does
I had a great experience at launch with my aging system from 2019.
Our reading
Positive
Frame rate and performance
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- 25,898
- counted on this topic
- POSITIVE
- 12,246
- of 23,598 who took a side
- NEGATIVE
- 7,974
- of 23,598 who took a side
- MIXED
- 3,378
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- NO SIDE
- 2,300
- of 25,898 counted
Counted from the posts we could read, so not every mention. One person with two accounts counts twice.
Before vs after update 1.15
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ThreadOne of the hardest-working dev teams of 2026 🔥 Thank you PEAK ABYSS 🙌
It plays really smooth too, slowing down only slightly in the menus sometimes for me.
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Positive
ThreadCan we mass report this? PS5 Pro since 1.16
the shimmering/ghosting/frame drops are out of this world.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadDid crimson dessert ruin every other game for you?
CD's story is threadbare to bad, performance is shit in PS5 and I would have given up long back if I was influenced by W3 or KCD2.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadDid Crimson Desert Ruin any other game for you like it did for me?
This is a really demanding game.
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No side
ThreadJust rolled credits on Crimson Desert. What a ride!
Played it on base PS5 and it def got grainy and dropped frames during battles and dragons 🐉 for sure haha.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadIf you could decide for *one thing* to be added with the DLC, what would it be?
Last but not least I'd like to see some optimisation and some proper mod support.
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Unavailable
ThreadCan we mass report this? PS5 Pro since 1.16
Base PS5 performance was so bad they refused to show footage of it until a few days before launch hidden in something else and cut into snippets.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadMetal/reflections look terrible in Crimson Desert – is there any way to fix or at least mitigate this?
Everything on cinematic isnt really good be it visuals or performance.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadCan we mass report this? PS5 Pro since 1.16
This issue is making the game barely playable on PS5 Pro and all the talk about Crimson Desert "Enhanced" and the new DLC is leaving a bad taste in my mouth when This is the state of the PS5 Pro version and the devs won't even put this issue on the Known issues List.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadDid Crimson Desert Ruin any other game for you like it did for me?
Far from perfect, but since CD I'm always looking for stuff missing in other games that's present in CD and feeling a little let down, SPECIALLY in terms of performance. I'm still cracking my head wondering how on earth did they manage to make the game look this good in such scale on a stable framerate.
Our reading
Mixed
ThreadPossible returning player questions
What’s changed: they’ve patched performance and image quality a lot, and Enhanced 2.
Our reading
Positive
ThreadHow did they develop the expansion so fast?
I play on a PS5 Pro and the performance is wildly uneven.
Our reading
Negative
Run smoothly with my PC spec as well.
Our reading
Positive
ThreadCrimson Desert is the #2-grossing new game on Steam this year so far ($203.3M), and the top-grossing new IP
Then for the people who expect to play in quality/high settings yet expecting more than 30fps with dips as low as 15, they are asking for the impossible.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadLeçon à l'industrie
I recently tried playing it on PS5 and the performance has gotten WORSE which everyone on PS5 agrees to be the case.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadI hate the general negative discourse this game seems to get on the internet especially on Reddit
Frames dropping to 17-22 range during boss fights (that is very broken since the game was barely functional when it was happening & crashed for a lot of people when it happened) the only time the game looked good was if it was daylight and not raining.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadI need advice
Is the performance actually that bad?
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None
Player question. A question takes no side.
ThreadLost my motivation/purpose around 30 hours
I think my main problems are the PS5 Pro performance is so mind-bogglingly bad that I spend more time fiddling with settings to try to make the frame rate issues bearable than actually playing the game.
Our reading
Negative
ThreadTo all who play Crimson Desert on PS5 Pro. How is the performance?
I have playdd exclusively on Quality mode and have seen the performance degrade steadily from launch till now.
Our reading
Negative
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