karoliner
Arcane
Conan Unconquered is cracked too.
Denuvo, at least for the moment, is a strictly CPU based affair, so benchmark wise, he'd be far better off locking the framerate at moderate settings and comparing the CPU usage of the before and after.
Its known impacts include
- Massively bloating executable file sizes
This is bad for cache coherency; meaning it causes thrashing of L1/L2/L3 caches, which can severely impact performance.
Windows also needs to map the entire executable into RAM, which add a few seconds of overhead and an unnecessary 200MB or so to RAM usage.
- Blocking synchronous checks
This can cause stalls, in particular causes a ~20s or so stall during first run before the game will even initialise.
As you can see later on his screen, his CPU didn't even clock up from 800MHz until denuvo validated and the game finally commenced loading.
- General overhead from validation checks
From what I understand, denuvo games need to do regular validation checks, these are often done in loading screens, or in the input handler.
The more well behaved games do about 5 a second or so maximum.
- Keylogger
The idea appears to be check for "unauthorised inputs" to stop crackers from reverse engineering things, and it also triggers random lock ups of the mouse as a consequence.
Also kind of highly illegal to do this shit, but I digress.
The current version also appears to decrypt the executable portions on the fly at a strict fixed rate, of which any variation signals tampering.
- Data mining/spyware
Denuvo's apparently evolved enough to derive its decryption keys based on a unique composite derived from your hardware, you can bet your ass they're collecting this data.
This is approaching Securom/Starfoce levels of intrusiviness... or is even worse.
PerkelThis is approaching Securom/Starfoce levels of intrusiviness... or is even worse.
Anyone who willingly installs Tumblrlands 3 on their system deserves, and probably even welcomes, this kind of abuse.
PerkelThis is approaching Securom/Starfoce levels of intrusiviness... or is even worse.
Anyone who willingly installs Tumblrlands 3 on their system deserves, and probably even welcomes, this kind of abuse.
lol
I was just pulling your leg, wanted to see if I was being ignored cause I think this is the first time you responded me.PerkelThis is approaching Securom/Starfoce levels of intrusiviness... or is even worse.
Anyone who willingly installs Tumblrlands 3 on their system deserves, and probably even welcomes, this kind of abuse.
lol
You are thinking that i will defend Denuvo or something ? I wouldn't bother with BL3 if not for my friend who is crazy about it and wanted to play it in co-op.
What i find shocking though is how many people are saying Denuvo doesn't cause issues with framerate, min fps, loadings and so on. That one dude who mede several videos comparing to cracked games or without denuvo for months had legion of angry people calling him fraud.
Quantic Dream is done with Playstation exclusivity. They pretty much released or are releasing all their PS3 & PS4 games on PC, and all their future games are multiplatform.Heavy Rain was released for PC?
Quantic Dream is done with Playstation exclusivity. They pretty much released or are releasing all their PS3 & PS4 games on PC, and all their future games are multiplatform.Heavy Rain was released for PC?
It's the other way around in truth. Sony are done with Quantic Dream, just the same way they're done with Ueda/Team ICO.Quantic Dream is done with Playstation exclusivity. They pretty much released or are releasing all their PS3 & PS4 games on PC, and all their future games are multiplatform.Heavy Rain was released for PC?
There is now a version of Assassin’s Creed: Origins without Denuvo and VMProtect that only pirates can enjoy
Now here is a pleasant surprise. A game cracking group was able to completely remove Denuvo and VMProtect from the previous entry in the Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed: Origins. As such, there is now a definitive version of the game, without these DRM programs, that only pirates can enjoy.
Going into more details, the game cracking group was able to remove 30 VM entry points for VMProtect and 104 VM entry points for Denuvo. It was also able to fix around 500k absolute & relative code and data pointers.
The group states that this is currently an experimental Proof of Concept release. The main reason behind it was to verify whether Denuvo affects CPU usage and overall performance of this game. Therefore, PC gamers can now test these two versions in this CPU-heavy game and see whether these DRMs bring any performance hit.
As always, we won’t allow any links to pirated content and those who share such links will be banned. Still, and only for educational purposes, we will benchmark this version. We will also compare it with the Denuvo+VMProtect version that is available on UPLAY.
Stay tuned for more!
It's the other way around in truth. Sony are done with Quantic Dream, just the same way they're done with Ueda/Team ICO.
"b-but denuvo does not h-harm performance!!!"
Watch the Denuvo stutterfest in the video.
Still, it's disappointing how these types of DRM schemes mostly disappeared once Steam gained grounds, only to reemerge a couple of years later. The cycle never ends, it seems.
"b-but denuvo does not h-harm performance!!!"
Watch the Denuvo stutterfest in the video.
It would be cool if Hardware Unboxed made the benchmarks, this guy is pretty bad at that I agree.