> The most important thing about Denuvo is that it's on a subscription license to the game publishers, so it's almost always removed after some length of time.
No, the most important thing about Denuvo is that PC gamers are forced to upgrade their hardware because Denuvo is such a performance hog. All you have to do is wait until Denuvo is stripped and the game will run much faster.
Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a conspiracy between Denuvo and Intel/AMD/NVIDIA where Denuvo goes out of their way to hurt performance on a really popular title, thus forcing people to upgrade.
Idiot writers at gaming websites claim a new patch to a game that's been out for a while has "optimizations" and lauds the developers for slaving away to make an already-finished game faster. The reality is that they just stripped out Denuvo.
I agree that I've seen anecdotal evidence that Denovu slows down some games considerably. That said, a conspiracy between every major hardware manufacturer and Denovu is certainly a bridge too far. It's far more reasonable, especially after reading this article, that there's a significant cost to all this encryption and wrapping and redirection if it's not applied carefully and enters a hot path.
I am more likely to believe someone who bypassed Denuvo.
> One can see that Denuvo does indeed intervene from time to time, but what one can clearly see: It doesn’t do that very often, definitely not every frame.
> It’s only once every few seconds. Even less, sometimes it doesn’t do anything.
> To me personally, it tells that Denuvo executes checks so infrequently, that the likelyhood of it causing major performance issues seems rather low.
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