Crimson Desert is now somewhat experienceable on Intel Arc graphics cards, though Kliff's face didn't make it

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Subscribe to our newsletter A new Intel driver dropped a couple of days ago, and to the surprise of some Reddit users, it's allowing them to play Crimson Desert.

A game that was previously unable to run on Arc graphics cards and integrated GPUs.There's no explicit note about support for Crimson Desert in the driver update, 32.0.101.8629 WHQL, releas was which on April 7.

However, some Reddit users (via WCCFTech) are reporting the game does now boot and is, sometimes, playable.Crimson desert works with the new driver from r/IntelArcI say sometimes, as for every Redditor noting the game now works, there are a good few others saying it still doesn't boot.

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Or, if it does, a character's face or limb is missing.

So it's very much a work in progress.We've given it a go here and, while it did pop up with the below error message noting that the current driver version (0.0) was not compatible and that a newer driver version (0.0) is recommended (it's still clearly very janky), it did start compiling shaders and, eventually, worked.Though not very well ## Editor's Note The implications of this news could be significant for the industry. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/crimson-desert-is-now-somewhat-playable-on-intel-arc-graphics-cards-though-kliffs-face-didnt-make-it/)