Crimson Desert PC and Console Specs Revealed: Here’s How the Game Will Run on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X

Crimson Desert is ready to launch on March 19 throughout PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and Mac. The open world action-adventure recreation has generated fairly a buzz forward of its launch as developer Pearl Abyss has shared a number of gameplay clips exhibiting off the title’s seemingly countless suite of options and state of the artwork visuals. Now, the South Korean studio has lastly revealed specs for Crimson Desert on all supported platforms, together with the recreation’s a lot debated efficiency on consoles.

Pearl Abyss shared detailed PC system necessities together with console and Mac specs for Crimson Desert on Tuesday. The headline is the recreation’s efficiency on consoles. The recreation’s potential efficiency on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X turned a debate in latest weeks, with many accusing Pearl Abyss of hiding console efficiency and graphics and speculating how the recreation woudl fare on current-gen consoles.

Crimson Desert Console Specs

The developer has now detailed Crimson Desert’s PS5 and Xbox Series S/X efficiency. The recreation will run in three completely different modes on consoles: Performance mode, that favours framerate over decision; Balanced mode, that brides framerate and decision; and Quality mode, that bumps up decision at the price of framerate.

Performance is constant throughout PS5 and Xbox Series X. In Performance mode, each consoles will run the recreation at 1080p and 60fps with raytracing set to low. In Balanced, Crimson Desert will run at 1280p upscaled to 4K at 40 fps. In Quality mode, the two consoles will run at recreation at 1440p upscaled to 4K at 30fps with raytracing set to excessive.

It’s value noting that PS5 and Xbox Series X won’t run Crimson Desert at native 4K decision in any mode. The extra highly effective PS5 Pro, nevertheless, will hit 4K + 30fps in Quality mode with raytracing set to Ultra high quality. The recreation may even utilised upgraded model of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) — first seen in Resident Evil Requiem — on PS5 Pro to run at 1080p upscaled to 4K at 60fps in Performance mode. Ryatracing high quality can be set to High on this mode.

Xbox Series S homeowners look away: Crimson Desert will run at 720p and 40fps on the Performance mode, and 1080p and 30fps in Quality mode on the lower-end Xbox console. Neither of the modes will help raytracing. Here’s the full console specs breakdown shared by Pearl Abyss:

PS5 and Xbox Series S/X specs for Crimson Desert
Photo Credit: Pearl Abyss

Crimson Desert PC Specs

PC specs for Crimson Desert, on the different hand, verify that the recreation has been optimised to run on outdated {hardware}, with minimal system necessities supporting AMD Radeon RX 550 XT and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GPUs. On the higher finish, to run the recreation at 4K, 60fps on PC at Ultra graphics preset, you will want Radeon RX 9070 XT or GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. On PC, Crimson Desert additionally requires no less than 16GB of RAM and 150GB SSD storage.

On Mac, Crimson Desert will run on units with M2 Pro or above chipsets. Pearl Abyss additionally shared specs for the recreation on ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. On the lower-end system, the open world recreation will run at 720p and 40fps. On the Xbox Ally X, it’s going to run at 60fps, 40fps, and 30fps throughout Performance, Balanced, and Quality modes.

Crimson Desert will launch throughout PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and Mac on March 19, and is at present out there to pre-order throughout all supported platforms. The huge open world action-adventure title is ready on the fictional continent of Pywel and follows the journey of Kliff, a Greymane warrior, and his companions. The recreation encompasses a mix of medieval fantasy, melee action-combat, and open-ended exploration.