It now supports 4K upscaling
Over the weekend, Crimson Desert received a new patch (known as Patch 1.02.00) that made a bunch of changes to the game, including a 4K enhancement to the Performance Mode on Xbox Series X.
Until last Saturday, Crimson Desert only supported 4K upscaling in the Quality and Balanced modes on Xbox’s most powerful console, but the feature has now been extended to the Performance Mode that runs at a native 1080p.
In our previous story, we highlighted how people were calling it a “game changing” update for this mode:
So let’s have a look at it, shall we? We’re still waiting for a proper deep dive on the newest update, but we do have a couple of videos that have cropped up on YouTube for the 4K Performance Mode on Xbox Series X:
I’ve personally been playing around with Crimson Desert this morning on my Xbox Series X, and yeah — it looks pretty darn nice on Performance Mode now. You can definitely still tell the difference between Quality and Performance in particular, but as someone who would much rather play at 60FPS (or as close to it as possible), Performance Mode looks perfectly good enough in my opinion. It actually looks better in person than in the above videos.
It’s going to be really interesting to see how Digital Foundry analyses the Xbox versions of Crimson Desert (if they do one), especially now that all three modes are more closely aligned than ever. There were a lot of fears prior to launch that this game would run terribly on Xbox, but fortunately that hasn’t proved the case!
Have you had a chance to try the 4K upscaling for Performance Mode on Xbox Series X yet? Tell us below.
Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.
