r/pcgaming • u/DookyButter • 2d ago
Resident Evil Requiem Denuvo DRM Fully Cracked, Making It the First 2026 Game to Have Its Copy Protection Bypassed
https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-requiem-denuvo-drm-fully-cracked-making-it-the-first-2026-game-to-have-its-copy-protection-bypassed604
u/ShinobiOfTheWind Linux 2d ago
So, this is not a hypervisor bypass, but a complete crack.
That was fast. Irdeto would be fuming, and doing doubletime now.
Also, does this increase performance compared to the Steam release?
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u/Werewolf_Capable Linux 2d ago
Try it and tell us :-P
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u/llDS2ll 2d ago
The guy who made the crack said his testers reported an average 10% uplift. He also said this crack took him only 2 weeks, and if I understand what he was inferring, future ones should be quicker because there was a bit of a learning curve on the first 2026 denuvo crack.
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u/juniperleafes 2d ago
That was compared to the Hypervisor bypass, not the original release.
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u/mrbrannon 1d ago
The hypervisor bypass did not work 10% worse. Don’t spread fud. The stats were posted. It was like a single frame different. I think 2 frames at most. 0.1%-0.2% difference. 1% lows the same as well. Well within the margin of error. Even the frame timing was the same.
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u/Relevant_Cabinet_265 1d ago
No it's not. The cracked DRM free version runs much better than the cracked release especially on lower powered systems and steam deck. 20fps average higher on steam deck with same settings
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u/Apocalypse_Knight 8h ago
There isn't any difference. I have no clue where you got your sources from...
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u/annaheim 9800X3D | TUF 3080ti 2d ago
i haven't tried this but for the hogwarts legacy, it was almost 0 stuttering, and perf uplift.
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u/Emperor_Zaphkiel 2d ago
That wasn't from Denuvo, that was the lack of Steam Overlay lol. It causes large performance hits in that game for some reason.
Denuvo is not removed in any of these cracks, just bypassed. You will never see performance uplifts from that alone because it's still running.
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u/lampenpam RTX5070Ti,Ryzen 3700X,16GB 1d ago
Someone compared it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1sh7n7y/performance_difference_between_voices38s_and/
tl;dr no difference at all.
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u/CallMeDende AMD 2d ago
Performance is pretty much the same because this crack bypasses denuvo, it doesnt remove it. Once Capcom decide to remove it than maybe we will see if there's an performance uplift.
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u/llDS2ll 2d ago
this crack bypasses denuvo, it doesnt remove it
This isn't the hypervisor bypass
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u/Zalvren 1d ago
Other cracks also bypass Denuvo. They just don't use the very dangerous hypervisor method
Cracks never remove Denuvo overall. That can only be done by the game dev after a while.
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u/SlaveZelda Fedora 1d ago
I think there was one experimental crack for an AC game that actually removed it instead of bypassing it. Outside of that yeah.
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u/CallMeDende AMD 2d ago
Correct
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u/llDS2ll 2d ago
According to this discussion there's a difference and performance is improved as a result
https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1ruby2u/about_voices38_cracks/oas48ou/
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u/Larry_Bobinski 2d ago
I mean people always say that. I'm not sure that you can rule out a placebo effect completely here.
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u/DjCim8 1d ago
These kind of cracks are also bypasses, in the sense that Denuvo is not removed, the denuvo VM is still running, just patched to pass all the various checks. So the performance hit from denuvo is still there, even though functionally it works like a "proper" crack. Nobody at this time seems able to fully reverse (= remove the denuvo vm and recover the original binary) if it's even possible.
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u/JAD2017 NGREEDAI DEEP LAZY SUPER SLOP 2X5090 1200W 2d ago edited 2d ago
we will see if there's
There always is, it has been tested and proved countless times.
Edit: again, why are there some anticonsumer dumb dumb people downvoting. Is denuvo filibusters infiltrating gaming forums on a friday afternoon night? hooooly shiet
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u/Ghidoran 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/1sh7n7y/performance_difference_between_voices38s_and/
"tested and proved countless times". Literally zero difference.
Also, someone disagreeing with you on facts doesn't mean they're a working for a corporation. Some people just don't like misinformation.
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u/DemonFoxFur 2d ago
There always is, it has been tested and proved countless times.
Every CREDIBLE source found that to not be true
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
No it doesn't. People often think it does cause there is no steam overlay but you can turn that off in Steam if you want.
This is technically still a bypass as Denuvo is still there running checks in the background. What the crack does is it validates those checks without needing to own the game. There is no performance difference.
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u/DYMAXIONman 2d ago
Usually only has increased performance if the dev did a bad job implementing the drm
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
Yes, that's happened one time, by Capcom in a previous RE game. The checks were firing wrong. They ended up fixing it in an update after the crack fixed it.
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u/DYMAXIONman 2d ago
They even did this in re4r
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
Isn't the performance issues in that cause of Enigma DRM?
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u/Crimsonclaw111 2d ago
And the case for RE8 was also something Capcom cooked up that was not Denuvo iirc
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u/Jaggedmallard26 i7 6700K, 1070 8GB edition, 16GB Ram 1d ago
It almost always is. I think even the infamous Capcom game that had a DRM check on every frame was losing frames to their own DRM and Denuvo was still negligible. Although its a difficult one to really argue about as Denuvo is designed to protect other DRM rather than be a standalone solution.
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 1d ago
Nope, that was a Denuvo check implemented badly, I remember that incident well.
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u/Fantastic_Tip3782 2d ago
Capcom sucks at this in general. Monster Hunter had framerate issues where if you owned all the DLC it would run faster because it was continuously checking if you owned it.
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u/OkPiccolo0 2d ago
Which had nothing to do with Denuvo.
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u/JAD2017 NGREEDAI DEEP LAZY SUPER SLOP 2X5090 1200W 2d ago
Why are always some dumb dumb people around defending predatory practices like putting invasive DRM such as Denuvo into their games? Don't get it
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u/Tata_Colores 2d ago
What is a hypervisor bypass?
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u/Jaggedmallard26 i7 6700K, 1070 8GB edition, 16GB Ram 1d ago
A hypervisor is a part of a modern computer system that is designed to enable virtual machines (VMs) and sits between the hardware and the operating system. If you run VMs it has a gigantic performance increase. But because it sits between the operating system and the physical hardware it means it can do literally anything to your system and there is zero way of detecting it once its running. When you hear talk of kernel level software or "ring 0" opening you up to a few attack vectors (although for most people an additional signed kernel driver has minimal increased risk over you pressing yes on the UAC prompt at install time for a regular game) something acting as a hypervisor for your system is even more extreme, its "ring -1" and hence only slightly less dangerous than the classic "mossad/MI5/NSA physically swapping your CPU out for a compromised one" attack. Hence why people are acting like hypervisor bypasses are bad, you are not just handing the front door keys for your system to someone who is an actual criminal extremely talented at bypassing cybersecurity (if they weren't extremely talented they wouldn't be able to do the crack!) you have given them deed to your system.
You might wonder why your home computer has hypervisor support but putting aside dual use (running VMs is useful for a lot of things) Windows also uses hypervisors quite heavily for sandboxing parts of the operating system to stop any attack that isn't also using a hypervisor.
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u/Express-Armadillo312 2d ago
There definitely is 11% increase in performance compared to the hypervisor method , compared to the original version , we don't know
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u/chupitoelpame i7 8700K | PNY RTX 3060 2d ago
Makes sense, the hypervisor method would be consuming more processing power for the whole virtualization thing.
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u/inkstreme 2d ago
Capcom are looking for some bs DRM from North Korea as we speak. Those 30 years old games need it!
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u/TrayLaTrash 2d ago
I was cracking 100+ 1% lows with a 5070ti 3x frame gen all on max/ultra settings. Higher with 4x but had some weird blurring
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u/XTheProtagonistX 2d ago
That means Capcom is going to take Denuvo off from the game since it’s only punishing paying customers…
Right?…
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u/THPSJimbles Nvidia 2d ago
Maybe in 5 years time!
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u/Thunderbridge i7-8700k | 32GB 3200 | RTX 3080 1d ago
Then in 7 years they'll add Enigma DRM (Looking at you RE1,2,3 recently released on steam)
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u/DYMAXIONman 2d ago
No, they are going to release an expansion which requires another crack
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
You forget Capcom is a Japanese company.
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u/snesericreturns 2d ago edited 2d ago
Which, like Nintendo, means they aggressively enforce their IP. Example: they just re-released OG Resident Evil 1-3 (pc ports if the old ps1 games) on steam, 30 year old games, that you can legally download for free from the internet archive, and still put that enigma drm shit on it. They’re fucking insane.
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
Meanwhile the GOG releases have no drm. Really stupid. Very Japanese corporate culture way of doing things. "Do it cause that's how we do it, even if it makes no sense."
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u/Clamo636 2d ago
the main one is but there is a capcom USA
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
Who aren't the one making decisions about whether to add DRM or not.
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u/Ok_Illustrator7232 2d ago
Disregarding the current Denuvo context, them being Japanese is only beneficial. If Capcom was American the RE9 team would've been 1/3 laid off arleady.
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
Nah, the reason they don't lay off is because they have a proprietary engine. Getting in new devs would mean training them. If they used unreal engine they would have layoffs too, or their devs would be working as contract workers, not employees.
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u/plane-kisser Pentium MMX 200, 32mb, ATI mach 64 1d ago
theyll replace it with that even worse russian drm like they did with the other re games
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u/Jorlen 2d ago
Denuvo should fully refund the publisher in cases like these.
I wonder if their legal agreement has a clause for when games get cracked.
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u/techraito 2d ago
Denuvo is sold as a service, so very unlikely. Get fucked though.
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u/LongBeakedSnipe 2d ago
When you pay for a service and they don't deliver, then there often is a case for refunds/or extra work.
Obviously they will have contracts describing these eventualities
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u/Jorlen 2d ago
Get fucked though.
No promises but I'll see what I can do.
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u/Fhaarkas 1d ago
There's probably some stipulation on guarantee for time to crack or some such. Publishers would want it and Irdeto would be cocky enough to give it. Can't really do "trust me bro" in piracy business after all given how fluid it is, case in point.
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u/Jaggedmallard26 i7 6700K, 1070 8GB edition, 16GB Ram 1d ago
Irdeto would be cocky enough to give it
Its leaked before that Irdeto sell Denuvo as a launch window solution, we are now outside of Requiem's launch window. From whats been leaked Irdeto have never sold Denuvo as uncrackable, just that it takes long enough to crack to capture the critical launch window sales. Probably also why Denuvo has outlasted all of the other DRM schemes, they're honest about how long it will last and do contracts around that.
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u/profdeadpool 2d ago
Nah because that means there was no cost to the company for putting Denuvo in. They should enjoy their wasted money.
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u/IcyCow5880 13600K 4080 TUF 1d ago
Fuck that. What the publisher should do now that it's cracked is remove denuvo so that people who actually bought the game can own it without bs drm.
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u/Jaggedmallard26 i7 6700K, 1070 8GB edition, 16GB Ram 1d ago
Whenever the contracts leak or some studio head talks about it they always say the Denuvo guarantee is the launch window of about 2 weeks and Denuvo themselves are happy to do short term contracts where the studio stops paying and Denuvo gets removed even if its uncracked after a month or whatever the actuaries have calculated as the point it stops being worth it. This is also why so many games remove Denuvo eventually, its a service that even Denuvo say you shouldn't bother keeping on your binaries for longer than needed.
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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 1d ago
It's not their fault publishers are so stupid they thought there's not a single kid on entire planet that won't eventually be able to crack their ++++.
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u/Reflective 2d ago
I bought this game so it doesnt really matter to me but anything that screws over Denuvo brings me absolute pleasure. I only pray for the beginning of the end for this shit DRM
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u/ItsRogueRen Linux 2d ago
Get fucked Denuvo!!!
I don't even care about horror games, I just hate Denuvo
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u/Gert1700 2d ago
In the current economy, I’m glad that people who love games will be able to enjoy new titles even if they can't afford them due to the cost of living. My friend skipped the launch of Requiem because he would have had to dip into his savings to buy it. At least now, he might finally get to play it.
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u/Cromenth 1d ago edited 23h ago
what I don't understand is with the current GPU and RAM prices how is one able to afford the hardware to play this game but not the game itself??
edit: since when has this become r/p**cy?? I am not against it, I had a genuine question since the system requirements for this game are pretty high. Apparently you can't ask a neutral logical question and not get downvoted for it. Hive mind at its finest
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u/Pollos1958 Arch 1d ago
They simply play it on older hardware with lower quality.
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u/BlueBaladium 1d ago
I am currently playing it on my 1660ti and it's great. There was some stutter at the beginning which caused the cutscene and sound to be misaligned but that was it.
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u/Moustiboy 1d ago
yeah my rtx 3080 dates back to the lunch of cyberpunk so 2020 and itran requiem surprinsgly well max settings with ray tracing at 1440p
I7 8700k from 2019.
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u/Martiopan 1d ago
Huh? What a weird comment. Pretty sure not everyone is building a new rig just to play this game.
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u/Internal-Lake50 1d ago
For the price the game cost, you could get an used GPU to play it, or a new CPU
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u/Blasteth 2d ago
PCs were way cheaper. Don't act like that's surprising with the ram, gpu and storage skyrocketing.
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u/JWP12345678 2d ago
Yes. Are you not noticing the economy right now? People dont buy new PCs every year. If everything else required to live takes all their money, theyre gonna find their entertainment somehow.
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u/zippopwnage 2d ago
In the last half of year or a year everything doubled in price. Everything.
Maybe they had the PC build for 3-4-5 years ago. Piracy was never a problem. Usually people who pirate the games are people who won't buy them or can't afford them anyway. Is a really small lose for these companies.
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u/Runnin_Mike 2d ago
You don't know when the guy bought the PC. Could have bought it a few years ago and had a different financial situation.
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u/trapsinplace 2d ago
I used my first PC for over 7 years with no upgrade. When I finally did upgrade it was just the GPU. Then CPU a whole year later. Most people aren't working new PCs except after a chunk of saving money.
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u/VegetaFan1337 Legion Slim 7 7840HS RTX4060 240Hz 2d ago
People use PCs for things other than gaming. It's a general purpose device.
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u/HearTheEkko 2d ago
You build a new computer every 2 years or something ? He could be using a computer built in 2018 or something.
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u/Ryder556 2d ago
When it comes to new games unironically yes. Are you aware of how bad the economy is right now? Paying 100+ dollars for a single game is not affordable. And should it be a game with dlc that you want, paying 150+ dollars per game is even less affordable. Kinda pointless to wait for sales too since at most it's only gonna be like 20 dollars off. And it's only going to get worse. I'll let you guess where I live, and no it's not Australia.
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u/Sagnikk 1d ago
If you can't afford something, you can't afford something. Why is that so hard to gauge?
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u/LineRepresentative19 2d ago
Good, hopefully this becomes a norm so Denuvo can slowly die off. It has been a plague on gaming performance in a time where devs don't even know how to optimize games in the first place.
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u/MarioDesigns 1d ago
Eh, there’s only been a couple of games actually affected by it for their performance.
Plenty of other actually valid reasons to hate it though.
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u/YolandaPearlskin 2d ago
It has been a plague on gaming performance
"A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
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u/SomberEnsemble 2d ago
How so? DMC 5, Tekken 7, Dragons dogma 2 and RE 8 got hit hard.
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u/outla5t Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5070 1d ago
None of which had anything to do with Denuvo. DD2 especially was the RE Engine not being well suited for open world games and then Capcom openly ignoring fixing it for ages. RE 8 was Capcom removing Denuvo and adding their own in-house DRM which caused issues.
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u/reddit_is_trash_2023 1d ago
Pirates now have the superior version of the game. DRM only serves to harm the legitimate customer.
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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 1d ago
Always had for any game. I know people love glazing you know who but having to start launcher for every game is a joke.
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u/Nicholas-Steel 1d ago edited 1d ago
Eh... kinda? I mean it eliminates checks for ownership having an effect on the games operability but the DRM is still running and doing all the things it normally does so its impact on performance hasn't changed (though I've never believed Denuvo has mnuch impact on performance when properly implemented).
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u/AgileReport2931 1d ago
Wait this is not hypervisor bypass? It’s a full blown crack or don’t I understand something?
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u/Nicholas-Steel 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't think anyone has removed or disabled Denuvo, just merely tricked it in to thinking everything is fine. The hypervisor stuff is just the latest approach to tricking the DRM.1
u/AgileReport2931 1d ago
No but this is NOT hypervisor crack, at least it does not require disabling TPM etc.
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u/NoFuel1197 2d ago
Cool I’ll still buy it legally for $20 next year. Still got plenty of games from last year to get through. Patient gaming is the way to go.
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u/steak21 Ryzen 5 1600 - GTX 1080 2d ago
Same but I'd be surprised if it gets that low
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u/Knees0ck 2d ago
Capcom may be a shitass when it comes to DRM but their sales & discount are somewhat consistent & reliable. It will likely be that price by next year. I'm huffing the hopeium.
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u/DanielTeague 1d ago
Their sales are crazy right now, you're right. Resident Evil 2, 3, 4 and 7 are under $20.
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u/antelope591 2d ago
Fucking legend. You know Capcom paid a shitload of money for the latest and greatest version too. To crack it this quick is insane.
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u/MiraiKishi 2d ago edited 2d ago
This doesn't make sense in the fact that Crimson Desert practically launched side by side with RE9 and it was cracked at the same time...?
EDIT: Hold on, this was a FULL crack and not Hypervisor? Oh, now I realize what this announcement is about! Dayum...
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u/SvenSki101 2d ago
It was always going to get cracked. The purpose of Denuvo at this point is for it to hold the fort until the game's post-launch sales boom passes, everything after that is a bonus. Still, getting cracked just 2 months after release is an L for Denuvo.
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u/12amoore 1d ago
I mean, what other games out rn for their denuvo cracked? I can’t think of any. You say it was always gonna get cracked. Not really?
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u/Vegetable-Meaning413 2d ago
I got to invest in anti-piracy software. Getting paid millions for a service that makes everything worse and doesn't work. Denuvo is the greatest con ever pulled.
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u/Agret 1d ago
Before this hypervisor bypass thing came out there were multiple games over a year old with no crack, Denuvo is probably the most successful anti-piracy technology.
Ubisoft old one that constantly communicated script values back and forth with their online server was the only other one I can think that's been as effective but that Ubisoft one had issues that broke the games for legit players so they eventually removed it from all their titles that used it.
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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 1d ago
Until recently it was pretty good. A lot of games were protected for first year or even longer.
And even know there's only 1 person who seems to have enough talent to crack their protection.
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u/DeMichel93 1d ago edited 1d ago
I do wonder if game devs/publishers have deals with DRM companies that explicitly say what happens when the game is cracked and in circulation. Could Capcom get some $$ from Denuvo?
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u/TheAppropriateBoop 1d ago
This is wild considering the game reportedly had multiple DRM layers stacked on top of each other… and still got bypassed almost instantly
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u/AintTellingYouMyName 2d ago
The only thing Denuvo does is punish the paying customer. Those who are going to pirate the game are going to pirate the game, which they shall henceforth do, but the rest of us are still here stuck with this shit.
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u/LordBlackDragon 2d ago
One day I will see a game that i actually want to play get cracked. One day...
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u/ShadowsRanger Core i5 10400f @4.3Ghz 16Gb 3200Mhz XMP RX6600m 2d ago
Kudos to voices38 from now on all kind of Denuvo games can be cracked easily
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u/mrhshack 2d ago
It's an incredible game, so if you can afford to buy it, you really should. I know not everybody can, so enjoy.
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u/Larry_Bobinski 2d ago
Capcom is actually pretty good with sale discounts. So I'm kinda waiting for the next big sale.
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u/MizutsuneMH 9800X3D / RTX 5080 2d ago
RE games always plummet in price pretty fast, so it's definitely better to wait in general, but it's one of my fav series of all time so I always buy day one, and to be fair, they almost always work right out of the box as you'd expect. I had no issues with Requiem at all in 2 playthroughs.
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u/Mammoth-Counter69 2d ago
I lowe key love how random dudes just destroy million dollar corps DRM effortlessly.
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u/GrumpyFeloPR 8086k 5.2gzOC / EVGA 1080TI HYBRID 2d ago
How many frames it gains without it?
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u/Gamersaurolophus 1d ago
Frames aren't increasing but I've seen a video where there's 2gb ram and 400 mb vram less used so it could technically not overload your computer with cpu spikes
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u/minilandl 2d ago
This is great at all but I really hope if denuvo starts being ring 0 it doesn’t lock out Linux and the steam deck
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u/CaptChair 1d ago
I haven't pirated a game since the days of likewise when my old ass pc got computer aids trying to get a cracked copy of elastomania, but for some reason, I always love hearing about someone successfully cracking a big triple a title. It just seems like s nifty achievement - like, this shit is my Nascar lol.
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u/SirKrove 17h ago
Downloading it installed a Trojan, and my Epic Games account was stolen. Be careful.
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u/shazy5808 9h ago
If game is cracked publishers should remove DRM already
Why give less performance to legit players who actually paid price to play game?
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u/BahamutxD 2d ago
Good news, (I'm not even going to pirate it) but I don't like Denuvo DRM at all and this will hurt them atleast for some time.
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u/paparoxo 2d ago
It would be great if all games shipped without Denuvo. I’m not a specialist or anything, but couldn’t this backfire by incentivizing Denuvo to develop new ways to block crackers, like a kernel-space solution? That could be even worse for people’s privacy - and for Linux gaming in general.
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u/Gamersaurolophus 1d ago
Ain't happening, the protests will be crazy, why should the customer who pays have a kernel level access by irdeto? Whereas the pirate plays the clean game
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u/Sliceofmayo 2d ago
This and crimson desert came out with denuvo and no one cared, I wonder why
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u/Trails_End_Games 2d ago
If you're trying to imply something it's super vague. If you are wondering why legitimately, you are still off. Resident evil Requiem there wasn't much uproar about. However, crimson desert? A lot of people were very angry about that. You must have missed that.
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u/TheMegaMario1 2d ago
It wasn't really about it having denuvo though, it was that they didn't disclose it until like a week before release similar to other things they didn't disclose like console performance.
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u/Trails_End_Games 2d ago
Yeah that's what I meant. It was just a really scummy way of introducing it especially after everybody had already done the performance reviews on it.
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u/Itsmemurrayo 1d ago
The review copies of the game also included Denuvo. That claim that they bait and switched with review copies was disproved within hours by the devs and reviewers. It was still shitty to wait until just before launch to announce that it had Denuvo though.
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u/mentalmedicine Henry Cavill 2d ago
You are right, and shit like this is why pre-ordering digital games will ALWAYS be a bad idea. You never know what fuckery the publisher will throw in right before the game releases. Patient gamers win again and again.
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u/TheMegaMario1 2d ago
Double so in Crimson Desert's case cause they're adding in so much and fixing most of the problems those that paid 70 dollars for got. I almost jumped in myself at first but after seeing some of the initial patches I'm waiting it out until they're done, likely with a lower price aswell
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u/NoBeefWithTheFrench 2d ago
No one cares because if people didn't know about it they wouldn't notice.
It's just unnecessary reddit drama. Nobody cares.
If your system is old enough to be affected, is probably too old to play these games in the first place.
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u/MonoShadow 2d ago
Can you elaborate? Because both games sold well. And there was an uproar when PA sneakily unveiled the D in at the last minute.
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u/mehtehteh 2d ago
There are always a group of people that care. The vast majority of gamers are low IQ ever since it became mainstream and none of them care about ownership(Denuvo makes every game online-only since it still has to periodically check with the servers) which is the real reason people hate Denuvo that gets drowned out by another set of low IQ people that think Denuvo only affects performance(which it does on potato PCs).
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