Screenshots from an RTX 5090 showed flat light and a soft background

A Reddit post shared PC screenshots of Crimson Desert that the author said were taken with the day-one patch on an RTX 5090, at maximum quality and DLSS 4.5 in quality mode. Some frames are from photo mode. They show Kliff and the playable Damiana: the armour is detailed, the surroundings are not.

The comments come down to a flat image, grass with almost no shadows, a soft background and surfaces that look worse than the rendered trailers. Some hope ray tracing was off in the shots, or that global shadows were broken in the build.

This text dates the release to 20 March 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Mac. It is one player’s leak, not a Digital Foundry measurement.