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11 Overview

33 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.

55 Gameplay Bugs

77 IssueDetailsStatusNPC Trust resetIf an NPC's Trust was increased during the Prologue, that NPC's Trust value may reset to its Prologue value in certain situations.AcknowledgedWait feature breaks after second useAfter using the "Wait" feature (beds or campfires) twice, the rest/wait option stops working entirely for the remainder of the session.AcknowledgedBank investment balance bugIf 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.AcknowledgedCharacter invisibilityDamiane or Oongka becomes invisible under certain conditions. Switching to Kliff or reloading a save resolves the issue temporarily.AcknowledgedCloudcart cannot be summonedUnder certain conditions, the cloudcart cannot be summoned, preventing fast travel by cart.AcknowledgedKnowledge requires double observationSome knowledge entries can only be acquired after performing "Observation" twice instead of once.AcknowledgedQuest auto-tracking failureCompleting certain quests does not trigger automatic tracking of the next objective. Players must open the quest log and manually select the next step.AcknowledgedDeferred Advance: Blackstar health bugDuring 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.AcknowledgedFruit theft character lockupAttempting to steal fruit from the back of a market stall causes the player character to become completely unresponsive to controls.AcknowledgedTree stuck glitchTaking damage while holding or climbing a tree can clip the character through the trunk, sometimes getting the character permanently stuck.AcknowledgedGregor revival softlockDuring 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.AcknowledgedSettings not savingIn some cases, applied graphics and gameplay settings revert to previous values after restoring settings or restarting the game.Acknowledged

88 Platform-Specific Issues

1010 IssuePlatformDetailsStatusROG Ally X launch failureXbox / ROG Ally XThe 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 investigationFishing reel-in brokenXboxThe fishing reel-in function does not work when "Invert Right Stick Y-Axis" is enabled in device settings.Acknowledged

1111 Graphics and Technical Issues

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1313 IssueDetailsStatusFSR 4 visual artifactsEnabling AMD FSR 4 upscaling causes rain to disappear or introduces screen blurring and distortion in rainy environments.Acknowledged

1414 Resolved Issues

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1616 The following issues have been resolved in recent patches:

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1818 IssueResolutionPS5/PS5 Pro Map menu crashesFixed in Patch 1.00.03Character switch to Kliff broke interactions (PS5)Fixed in Patch 1.00.04 (PlayStation Hotfix)Mac Steam crashes on quest completion, startup, or exitFixed in Patch 1.00.04 (Mac Steam Hotfix)Abyss visible from overworld causing frame dropsFixed in Patch 1.00.03Xbox ROG Ally and Xbox PC launch issuesPartially resolved (driver workaround provided; full fix pending)Steam pre-order bonus/deluxe pack claim failuresServer-side fix deployed; restart game and check Add-ons menuCollector's Edition Ultimate Pack claim failuresServer-side fix deployedDualSense vibration on WindowsFixed in Patch 1.00.03GPU recognition failures in dual graphics environmentsFixed in Patch 1.00.03

1919 Fixes in Recent Patches

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2121 Patch 1.00.03 (March 23, 2026) resolved several high-priority issues:

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2323 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.

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2525 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.

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2727 How to Report Bugs

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2929 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.

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3131 See Also

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3333 Known Bugs and IssuesPatch NotesSystem RequirementsPerformance and Graphics SettingsConsole Performance

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