Crimson Desert is a massive game with a heap of weird and wonderful systems. Pet dress-up, anyone? What about riding a polar bear into battle? Even with animal affinities aside, that means a lot of moving parts, which in turn means many, many, many squeaky wheels crying out for grease.
As such, developer Pearl Abyss maintains a list of known issues that runs the gamut from quirky NPC behaviour, to the game simply not playing ball on some set-ups. You'll remember that Intel Arc GPU support wasn't available at launch, though now the game is somewhat playable. Although, I say 'somewhat' as even Pearly Abyss notes ongoing crashes and display issues when running Intel's upscaling tech XeSS.
