Buggy Mess: Crimson Desert GPU Benchmarks, Simulation Error, & Intel Arc Gets Screwed

Episode Title: "Buggy Mess: Crimson Desert GPU Benchmarks, Simulation Error, & Intel Arc Gets Screwed"
Content: Sponsor: Arctic MX-7 Thermal Paste on Amazon https://geni.us/WbHJ Crimson Desert just launched. We tested the day 1 patch and launch version of Crimson Desert across 25 GPUs, 3 resolutions, all graphics presets, and also tested for simulation time error (alongside frametime spike issues and framerate). During the testing, we encountered numerous bugs across 3 test computers and 2 GPU vendors; Intel was immune to these bugs, which is because Intel Arc simply doesn't work at all for Crimson Desert. When GN emailed Intel, the company put together a statement and distributed it to all of the media to state that Pearl Abyss refused to grant the company early access. Crimson Desert bugs include crashing to desktop, hard system resets, all objects turning pink or yellow at times, game freezes without a crash, and silent settings reductions spread across both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. This does not appear to be a driver or computer issue, but rather a game issue. In these benchmarks, we look at the best GPUs for Crimson Desert and some of the preset settings optimizations and performance of the game. We used the latest public drivers for testing, which would be the game-ready drivers for both AMD and NVIDIA. Watch our explanation of Simulation Time Error testing methodology (Animation Error) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnXe6N8h_c The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Crimson Desert Technical Analysis 03:04 - Test Setup and Plan 04:30 - Intel Arc Blocked by Pearl Abyss 06:37 - A Buggy Mess, Loading Time, Pop-In 09:10 - Test Methodology and Researching Test Areas 09:45 - Game Performance Analysis on 5060 Ti 12:00 - Frametime Plot of Massive Stutter 13:22 - Game Performance Analysis on 9070 XT 14:24 - Crimson Desert Preset Settings Scaling on 5060 Ti 16:50 - Crimson Desert Preset Settings Scaling on 9070 XT 17:23 - Simulation Time Error Explainer 18:20 - Good Simulation Time Error on 5060 Ti in Abyss 19:40 - Simulation Time Error on 5060 Ti in City 20:50 - Bad Simulation Time Error on GTX 1070 21:49 - All GPUs Simulation Time Error Per Frame 23:00 - All GPUs Percent Time with Simulation Errors 23:30 - Crimson Desert 1080p GPU Benchmarks ft. GTX 1080 Ti 26:04 - Crimson Desert 1440p Best GPUs 27:08 - Crimson Desert 4K GPU Comparison NVIDIA vs AMD 27:52 - Crimson Desert 4K Cinematic Benchmark 28:31 - Crimson Desert 1440p Cinematic Best Video Cards 28:47 - RT on vs Off on 7900 XTX 29:38 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Writing, Test Lead Patrick Lathan: Testing, Writing Mike Gaglione: Testing Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing Tim Phetdara: Editing


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