Games at launch often include protections to prevent piracy. The most used system is Denuvo, a specific DRM to protect games that sometimes lasted for hours. one of the great user complaints is that it consumes a lot of resources, which denuvo hear deny with sound own landmark.
If you are a fan of video games, you know Denuvo very well, since it is the most used DRM today. The only mission he has is to prevent the game from being cracked, come on, so that you can play it without paying. This is not a very good solution, as it has been breached countless times, sometimes within minutes or hours.
This utility is not appreciated by users, who complain that it affects performance. It is true and it has been proven countless times. We have seen that a game with this plugin performs worse than after being cracked.
Denuvo is fed up with misinformation about its DRMs
Many players report that the Denuvo DRM load the processor. This causes a great Performance loss. But the curious thing is that this does not always happen, although it does in most cases.
Irdeto, a company that bought Denuvo in 2018, wants to shed some light on the matter. During an interview, Steve Huin, director of video game operations at Irdeto, answered the question: Does Denuvo affect game performance?
It is almost impossible for players to get the same version of the game before and after encryption. In the entire life cycle of the game, there will be a Denovo version and a non-Denovo version, but they are not comparable, because these two versions can consist of six. Many fixes have been added to it by the game studio which can make the game better or worse.
Regarding the anti-tampering feature, I think there had to be a clear statement that what we were doing didn’t have any appreciable impact on the gaming experience.
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We have to say it’s first time that Denuvo or someone directly involved in its development is so clear. Huin also points out that it’s still too late to start explaining this. This is clearly a message to the former developers and managers of this DRM, who have always been opaque.
Check it with a benchmark
It looks like Irdeto is working on benchmark software that shows the game’s performance with and without Denuvo. It would become a tool that seeks to gain the trust of video game fans.
Of course, we all know that benchmark tools can be manipulated by developers. To gain credibility, it should be open source and available on GitHub, so that the code can be audited.
He is right to say that the explanations come too late. Denuvo has always been a software that has lived in opacity, being the first time someone talks about it.
One can choose to believe Huin or not. You may be right and the problem is not Denuvo, but the botched patches and updates. We’ve seen over the past few years how games come out half finished and of course they run terribly.
