RE:Village was recently cracked and it showed just how bad DENUVO broke the game, the stutters the hitches, frozen screens everything. Now that it's been cracked all the performance issues, the bad FPS everything was fixed, some users reported a gain of 20-40 FPS during previous areas that dropped frames below 15.

Here is a video on it from Modern Vintage Gamer, this guys seriously knows his stuff. All of his videos are a fantastic deep dive and he tries very hard to not spread FUD and unsubstantiated info: https://youtu.be/-ig4dqozB1I

Here is another video, this time from Digital Foundry, these guys know what the hell they're doing. DRM absolutely killed this games performance. https://youtu.be/UXZGCwAJpbM

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Yeah and you should see the impact it had...

we need payment drm

publisher only gets 5% of the paid money each year until it reaches between 70-90% randomly

To be honest, It's only one tiny segment of the game where The Maiden is chasing you. But yes, DRM (in this case, Capcom anti-tamper) is still anti consumer. The fact that you have to "crack" a game to get the best experience is laughable and one of many reason why I am thankful that GOG exist.

why cant they use that crypto technology where it is linked to the crypto holder?:O

And you're surprised that a belligerent form of DRM sucks the performance out of a game?

This has been known since DRM went beyond Dial-A-Pirate and into the realm of actual checks. (So since about 1991.)

that was before the net :O eons ago
hmm some drm lovers dvoted , strange why they dont dare to show their faces , even if they are the baddies

The thing is, there are many games with Denuvo where the performance is good and the cracked version doesn't give any performance boost. I'm not defending DRM, but I am certain that this is because this is an anti-PC Japanese publisher so minimal effort was given to integrating Denuvo properly. Japanese corporate entities just seem to hate PC gaming.

Wasn't Denuvo. I do find it funny though. Denuvo claims it has no impact on performance, which might be true from a practical point of view, to say that it can be certain that's the case is not true. These sorts of things don't run in response to IRQs only. While it may be an incredibly small fraction, by comparison, it's still not nothing, and this is so ridiculously easy to demonstrate. You mean blockchain?

EDIT: The issue in particular is decrpytion stores somewhere and that's precisely how you break DRM. Now, if you try not to store it, you're going to have huge increases in requirements, because decrpyiton is not a cheap opoeration in terms of CPU resources.

anti-PC :O
so that's why plenty of ports are garbage
yeah blockthing , wonder what is possible with it if you want to use it as drm,
huge increase? hmm doesnt that depend on the blockchain?

It's the whole mentality of encryption in general. The more you have to calculate, the more it eats of your resources. And the higher end encryption algorithms tend to be pretty heavy. Blockchain in particular requires some of the heavier forms. Of course, decryption always runs into the same issues of it being stored somewhere. My guess is this is how most get cracked, anyway: they just look for the temp folder where the decrypted version is or they just do a RAM dump and look for 'MZ". I don't normally hang around in those circles to know for sure, though, but that's among the methods i've used to grab resources from games like sound tracks.

Recently found some nice things about NW.js games that makes them easy to dig through. Have another game where the OGG files are embedded in the EXE without encryption, too, which made them really, really easy to extract, in the end. This stuff doesn't require decryption though. Sometimes you get some really easy xor keys, like this one time the developer's name was the xor key and it was obvious from the obvious pattern repeating in the zero sections. There's a few games i'd like to crack, yet. I am pretty sure that they're using zips, but i can't find the pattern to their keys. I did notice a repeating pattern of "95 96 F8 09 8B DF 8A 92 2B 15 40 BE" in one section, though. Kinda tempted to see if i can add, sub, or xor it out. The problem is, i don't know where that pattern begins.

If you guys purchased video games on Steam that have Denuvo or other Digital Rights Management (DRM) software like other accounts to log in into just write a negative review on Steam, stop writing positive reviews.