Overview
Pearl Abyss maintains an official known issues list on the Crimson Desert website. This page summarizes the confirmed bugs and technical problems as of March 26, 2026. For a more detailed breakdown including workarounds, troubleshooting steps, and community-reported issues, see the full Known Bugs and Issues article.
Gameplay Bugs
Issue | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|
NPC Trust reset | If an NPC's Trust was increased during the Prologue, that NPC's Trust value may reset to its Prologue value in certain situations. | Acknowledged |
Wait feature breaks after second use | After using the "Wait" feature (beds or campfires) twice, the rest/wait option stops working entirely for the remainder of the session. | Acknowledged |
Bank investment balance bug | If your investment returns are negative while you have no gold bars deposited in the bank, your total balance becomes 0. Pearl Abyss recommends avoiding bank investments under 500 silver until a fix is released. | Acknowledged |
Character invisibility | Damiane or Oongka becomes invisible under certain conditions. Switching to Kliff or reloading a save resolves the issue temporarily. | Acknowledged |
Cloudcart cannot be summoned | Under certain conditions, the cloudcart cannot be summoned, preventing fast travel by cart. | Acknowledged |
Knowledge requires double observation | Some knowledge entries can only be acquired after performing "Observation" twice instead of once. | Acknowledged |
Quest auto-tracking failure | Completing certain quests does not trigger automatic tracking of the next objective. Players must open the quest log and manually select the next step. | Acknowledged |
During the Deferred Advance quest, retrying or abandoning the Ultimate Weapon fight while Blackstar's Health is depleted causes Blackstar's Health to not fully recover on subsequent attempts. | Acknowledged | |
Fruit theft character lockup | Attempting to steal fruit from the back of a market stall causes the player character to become completely unresponsive to controls. | Acknowledged |
Tree stuck glitch | Taking damage while holding or climbing a tree can clip the character through the trunk, sometimes getting the character permanently stuck. | Acknowledged |
Gregor revival softlock | During the Gregor, the Halberd of Carnage boss fight, if surrounding destructible objects break at the same moment the player character dies, revival becomes impossible and progress is blocked. | Acknowledged |
Settings not saving | In some cases, applied graphics and gameplay settings revert to previous values after restoring settings or restarting the game. | Acknowledged |
Platform-Specific Issues
Issue | Platform | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
ROG Ally X launch failure | Xbox / ROG Ally X | The game fails to launch properly on the latest driver. Pearl Abyss recommends using driver V32.0.21025.27003 instead of V32.0.23027.4002 while Microsoft and AMD investigate the issue. | Under investigation |
Fishing reel-in broken | Xbox | The fishing reel-in function does not work when "Invert Right Stick Y-Axis" is enabled in device settings. | Acknowledged |
Graphics and Technical Issues
Issue | Details | Status |
|---|---|---|
FSR 4 visual artifacts | Enabling AMD FSR 4 upscaling causes rain to disappear or introduces screen blurring and distortion in rainy environments. | Acknowledged |
Resolved Issues
The following issues have been resolved in recent patches:
Issue | |
|---|---|
PS5/PS5 Pro Map menu crashes | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Character switch to Kliff broke interactions (PS5) | Fixed in Patch 1.00.04 (PlayStation Hotfix) |
Mac Steam crashes on quest completion, startup, or exit | Fixed in Patch 1.00.04 (Mac Steam Hotfix) |
Abyss visible from overworld causing frame drops | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Xbox ROG Ally and Xbox PC launch issues | Partially resolved (driver workaround provided; full fix pending) |
Steam pre-order bonus/deluxe pack claim failures | Server-side fix deployed; restart game and check Add-ons menu |
Collector's Edition Ultimate Pack claim failures | Server-side fix deployed |
DualSense vibration on Windows | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
GPU recognition failures in dual graphics environments | Fixed in Patch 1.00.03 |
Fixes in Recent Patches
Patch 1.00.03 (March 23, 2026) resolved several high-priority issues:
PS5 map crash: The hard crash triggered by opening the map menu on PS5 and PS5 Pro has been fully resolved.
120 Hz output bug: A bug that caused dramatically reduced rendering resolution when 120 Hz output was enabled on PS5 has been fixed. 120 Hz is now a separate in-game toggle.
DualSense vibration on PC: DualSense controller haptic feedback now works correctly on Windows via USB and Bluetooth.
GPU recognition: Certain GPUs that were not detected at startup are now recognized properly.
Xbox offline play: Fixed an issue where offline gameplay was unavailable on Xbox.
Patch 1.00.04 consisted of two platform-specific hotfixes: a PlayStation hotfix on March 23 that fixed the Kliff character-switching bug, and a Mac Steam hotfix on March 24 that resolved crashes on quest completion, startup, and exit.
How to Report Bugs
Pearl Abyss encourages players to report issues through the official Crimson Desert website under News > Notices > "Report an Issue." PC players can also post in the Bug Reports section of the Steam Community forums. Include your platform, system specs (if on PC), a description of the issue, and steps to reproduce it.