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Known Issues
August 17, 2026 at 02:40 AM
Rebased the current known-issues list on the August 16 official notice (12 open issues) and added the 1.17 and 1.18 fixes
Pearl Abyss maintains an official known issues list on the Crimson Desert website. This page tracks confirmed bugs and technical problems. The current list below follows the official known-issues notice as updated on August 16, 2026; the later sections preserve the launch-window issue history from March 2026. For a more detailed breakdown including workarounds, troubleshooting steps, and community-reported issues, see the full Known Bugs and Issues article.
Pearl Abyss maintains a rolling known-issues notice. As of its August 16, 2026 update, twelve issues are open across platforms and none are marked resolved. The August 16 revision added three entries to the August 4 list: the camp resources comrades counter, the silver reset on "A Secret Deal," and the interaction failures described below.
Issue | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|
Comrades count shows 0 | All | The camp resources UI displays the comrades count as 0. The display is cosmetic and the actual count is unaffected. |
"A Secret Deal" silver reset | All | The quest resets the silver amount in certain save files. |
Interactions unavailable | All | NPC, mount, and object interactions become unavailable in specific situations. Restarting the game is the temporary workaround. |
Caught fish cannot move | All | Fish caught while fishing in certain areas are unable to move. |
Greymane faction quests blocked | All | Greymane faction quests cannot be progressed while playing as Damiane or Oongka. |
Evasion rebind ignored | All | With Evasion Control set to Hold, the default evasion key still functions after the key has been rebound. |
Shared legendary mounts | All | NPCs required for quest progression cannot ride together on legendary animal mounts. |
Cursor offset when placing furniture | Mac | At certain resolutions with keyboard and mouse, the cursor position differs from the actual furniture placement point. |
Colorblind filter not applied | Mac | The colorblind filter is not applied to the UI when Colorblind Mode is enabled. |
Virtual keyboard freeze | PlayStation | The screen may freeze if characters are entered rapidly on the virtual keyboard while naming a pet or horse. Entering characters slowly avoids the freeze. |
White screen on GTX 1060 | PC | On GTX 1060 GPUs, enabling FSR Upscaling together with Frame Generation causes the screen to appear white. |
FSR4 rain artifacts | PC | With FSR4 upscaling, rain can disappear or the screen can become blurry or distorted in rainy environments. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.
The 1.15 and 1.16 patch series (July 24 through August 5, 2026) resolved further long-standing issues: transparent bosses during battle, crops that stopped growing or could not be harvested, gear lock status not saving for Oongka and Damiane, an occasional crash when loading cross-save data, a persistent loading or black screen when loading saves, shields disappearing after dual-wield save and reload, and equipment quantities becoming incorrect after save and reload. See Patch Notes for the complete lists.
The 1.17.00 and 1.18.00 patches (August 7 and August 15, 2026) cleared further reported problems: "Desperate Rescue" challenge progress not counting, unobtainable treasure chest icons and abnormal trade routes on the map, overlapping footstep sounds, special headgear effects failing to activate, rendering corruption when FSR or XeSS Frame Generation was enabled on low-end cards including the GTX 1060, and a progression block when switching to Oongka before meeting Torstein during "Time to Face Justice." Hotfix 1.18.01 on August 16 fixed housing items placed in 1.12.00 or earlier not appearing, an interaction-menu delay while the lantern was lit, an unexpected close after launch, and incorrect map display in certain areas.
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.
Known Bugs and Issues
Patch Notes