Developer hacks Denuvo DRM after six months of detective work and 2,000 hooks, allows running Hogwarts Legacy on other PCs
Developer hacks Denuvo DRM after six months of detective work and 2,000 hooks, allows running Hogwarts Legacy on other PCs
This was for research rather than illegal cracking.
"He discovered that the amount of Denuvo code executed in-game is quite infrequent, with calls occurring once every few seconds, or during level loads. This suggests that Denuvo is not killing performance, contrary to popular belief. "
No, it might suggest that this version of Denuvo and the way that this developer implemented it might not be affecting performance.
However, "every few seconds" is actually quite a lot, and if it causes a stutter each time, it's brutal on perceived framerate. So no, it doesn't actually suggest that Denuvo isn't killing performance. It's actually making it pretty obvious that it can easily affect performance.
Specifically, he wanted to see if he could prove that Denuvo kills performance as much as many people believe.
This can be done without cracking it. There have been several games that have removed this DRM, as well as some who have added it post-publication. Benchmarks between versions should highlight the performance issues.
Also, fuck Denuvo.
Facts. His claim of there being no performance impact is especially dubious because A) he didn't actually remove it, he bypassed an authentication step and B) The 'only checks every few seconds and at level loads' is only the parts he definitively recognized as part of denuvo. At best, he only proved that denuvo removed by a 3rd party is no more a performance hit than leaving it running, and it's more likely that all he proved is that this method of bypassing denuvo provides no performance gains. I'm sure it was neat as a project, but this comes off to a 3rd party like some 'we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing' shit.
A DRM developer says DRM protection does not hamper gaming performance. Okay, nothing weird here.
Fuck denuvo, the only good thing about denuvo is that eventually the devs get tired of paying for it.
Woohoo, so the number of people that can crack Denuvo is now up to three, right? Two if you only count recent iterations.
This guy is a DRM developer and he experienced frequent crashes and instability after bypassing Denuvo so he's not going to be the next Empress unfortunately