Resident Evil Village PC DRM: Cracked Code Really Does Run Better - Confirmed
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the evidence that Denuvo DRM measurably hurts game performance.
What it is
Digital Foundry investigates why Resident Evil Village on PC runs worse with Capcom's Denuvo DRM than a cracked version. They benchmark and confirm performance and frame-pacing differences.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends smoldesu · 2021-08 · on “Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%”
The folks at Digital Foundry did a phenomenal job breaking down the specifics, as usual. I strongly suggest checking out their video if you're interested in the stuff: [this video]
Cites shmde · 2021-11 · on “Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires”
> Well used, Denuvo is not that bad. Ubisoft admitting that Denuvo ( idk why they used the term third party lol ) causes PC stuttering. [LINK] Resident evil 8 runs better when it is stripped off its denuvo protection. As confirmed by Digital foundry's video. [this video] [LINK] You will now see a huge influx of video games being stripped of denuvo because it literally shits itself in 12th gen Intel chips and games become unplayable with denuvo. > And generally, it only serves to protect the first few months of sales, it is not uncommon to strip out DRM after that. Nope, disagree. The only time they strip Denuvo out is when the game is cracked by warez scenes or if the cost of paying denuvo gets b
Cites badsectoracula · 2024-04 · on “Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy”
DF's claims isn't that it doesn't have any noticeable effect in performance (in fact in a recent video[0] they claim the opposite when Denuvo was introduced to Assassin's Creed Mirage after reviews were done - it can affect performance and thus because of that introducing it after the fact invalidated the CPU performance metrics reviewers had done) but - at least in the cases i remember - they cannot tell if the issues were due to Denuvo or not. Note though that in a case where they could test both versions, they did find Denuvo to both have lesser performance and affect frame pacing[1] (though that is for a 2yo game, things might be better more recently). [0] [LINK] [1] [this video]