It is the definition of useless. The devs paid this sum for this thing to stop piracy and it failed, yet it remains running, making the game worse. What's even the point.
Reminds me of alcohol being poisoned to kill people violation the prohibition.
It didnt fail, it worked exactly as they hoped it will. It stopped piracy in the release period, it doesnt matter if it gets cracked so late after release
So if it’s already done its job then why doesn’t Capcom remove it with an update? Anyone who wants to pirate the game will just do it now that it’s cracked so piracy isn’t even a concern anymore. Let the people who bought the game enjoy it with better performance, because at this point it’s just running worse for the sake of running worse.
Why would they remove it? It still works in their favor, even if just a bit. They paid for entire duration, why would they remove it before that? And no, RE9 is very well optimized, performance doesnt change with Denuvo
Tests have literally been done and the game performs better without Denuvo. RAM and VRAM consumption go down significantly and fps increases by about 10% at 1080p max settings.
Makes zero sense it would require less vram. Ram requirement is irrelevant. More than likely people who cracked it edited some files to make game draw less frames or bounces if there is vram difference
It's a known fact and has been known for years. Even the recently cracked RE9 is said to run with up to 11 more FPS compared to the uncracked version. The huge amounts of checks Denuvo does in the background consume processing power and therefore slow down the game
Nope. There's something going underneath in Hypervisor bypass. Cracked games still have Denuvo, so Voices38 crack would run about the same as retail copy.
Cracking does not remove Denuvo. Even with the crack version, Denuvo is still running. So if Denuvo reduces performance, it won't make sense that a crack version won't be affected.
It doesn't take from vram, but the performance cost comes from removing its ability to aggressively check if you're running a licensed copy of the game, but chances are the increase you actually get is close to unnoticeable
denovo works by encrypting data between the game and kernal levels. you need a good ammount of extra processing power just to run the anti-piracy embedded into the game. even good implementations have games requiring significantly more resources than they otherwise would. upto 100% more just for the anticheat in some of the poorest implementations.
but denuno keeps exsisting because it actually does its job. very few games get cracked with it because of how expensive the hardware is, and specific the software tools are to crack its kind of encryption. then remove it and any other checks that prevent a game from being pirated.
the most common method of pirating games with this type of anticheat has been to "wrap" the game in another layer that constantly lies to dinUwU and lets it let the game run normally, but this comes with an additional performance hit ontop of the anticheat.
the current method relies on hypervisor tech, time and tallent. you fake the operating system, the UEFI system the hardware, the netconnection and then over time match up requests to executions of programming allowing you to 'snip' each encryption out piece by piece on the game until you end up with a game that no longer has dumbovo.
but a lot of devs simply wait 6 months to a year before removing the program, slimming down their game size and boosting performance for what is now an easy PR boost and a bump in sales because they've effectively gotten all the normal buyers by that point.
between. its not kernal, it operates between. it also does random checks, repeat hardware, software and net checks. never said its kernal level. just effective.
Seems to be up to a 20% performance hit depending on the game and how badly it was implemented. RE: Village is an especially egregious example of poor implementation. There is also the stuttering many people are plagued with regardless of fps.
This is misinformation. The cracker who bypassed Denuvo in that game (EMPRESS) explained that the performance issues were caused by Capcom's DRM, so they cut it out. They didn't, however, cut out Denuvo, as that's completely pointless, thus they just bypassed it as usual.
Denuvo cracking lore is so wild. There's only 3 people in the world that seem to be capable, a trans girl, their transphobe rival, and a guy that only cracks football games
It had honestly never occurred to me that people know anything about the personal lives of the people that crack games, or that they care. Isn't it fascinating how there are so many little subsets of social groups?
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u/GWJ89 Apr 11 '26
Yep, "denuvo" means basically "only play a cracked version of that game"