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This isn't what happened. Capcom's own inhouse DRM wasn't playing nice in combination with Denuvo. Bypassing either DRM makes the issue stop. In this case the modder bypassed Capcom's DRM, not Denuvo.
Lol
Lol, the pirate was so excited too!
While I won't disagree with you on this particular game, this very forum has more than one thread about denuvo causing a game to have issues.
People would bitch and moan about that even more.
There are a few games already doing it. As consumers I would say you have three choices really. We can continue to buy games with OS level DRM schemes hooked into out systems and we can just say ok I trust that your games DRM isn't doing anything it shouldn't... I mean we have no way at all to confirm that and the OS is handing it basically the keys to your system. We could also say no thanks and never buy a game with DRM... buy from GOG and no where else I guess. Or we can accept that I guess publishers have a right to secure their product from the pirates, in which case the only reliable option for them is some form of Saas that requires constant server authentication. (and I say only... cause frankly even the scummy DRM schemes fail) It might be annoying to some... but its the only form of DRM I can think of that doesn't rely on unsecure system accesses, while also providing almost 100% publisher production is online authentication (and even this can be broken of course if the developer isn't giving people reasons to stay up to date)
Yea publishers are not going to do that. Especially not for free.
Wrong on both counts.
Lots of empirical evidence that shows Denuvo hurts gaming performance. The combination of Capcom's DRM and Denuvo that probably hurt the performance a lot but Denuvo in general hurts performance.
This only works if the game is multiplayer based. If it's single player game like Resident Evil Village then once a hacker cracks it out then updates don't matter. You can use a DNS as a method to bypass this as well. Also, phoning home is cancer as well and doesn't promote that you actually bought something, as once the server goes down you don't have access to your game.
Whatever those games are I hate them.
Stop using DRM and lower game prices. Stop cutting your games up into pieces and selling them as DLC. No anti piracy method works and any effort done to prevent piracy will only make piracy easier for those looking to do it. Xbox One was going to do this phoning home crap and the console is dead. Before anyone says Xbox One isn't dead, here's a video animation proving my point.
Agree with all of that. My only beef is that nuance gets lost in our misinformation age, and the tendency to not care about facts or truth as long as the "conclusion" or headline or youtube video supports the outcome we want.
So you magically avoided every single stutter issue in this game?
Nice references on both accounts.
Performance doesn't begin and end with FPS. Denuvo and most DRM is trigger activated. So it does not affect AVG fps in most games but there can be exceptions to that rule. However it does affect frametimes. When poorly implemented it can as much as double or triple the highest frametimes. That's the instances when the tacked on code is executed. Claiming that adding additional code to games does not affect performance at all is like claiming free energy exists. And how does this manifest in practice? Of course stuttering, which is exactly what is going on in RE8. Of course you can claim that it is implemented shoddily, but that is no excuse, if they are content with implementing it badly they are hurting customers, and only customers.
It is common practice to attach DRM to certain ingame events. if checks were only done during loading it would be much easier to circumvent. The trick with denuvo is that it is tacked on to game code, becoming indistinguishable from it without the source. That's why it takes a long time to crack.
the ones that people like to tout as "confirmed DRM performance issues"? yes, absolutely.
So what constitutes as evidence for you? What narrow criteria meets your standards?
Denuvo has three major effects in performance. Firstly is average FPS which is usually not that big. Some games it can be but in most it's only losing about a few frames per second at best. Secondly is minimum frames which Denuvo has more of an effect. In a lot of cases you can see minimums drop down to unplayable levels. Finally there's the loading time which Denuvo creates a massive executable. Without Denuvo the executable is something like 15 megabytes but with it you get 300 megabytes. This can often double or triple the loading times of games. You don't need a cracked game to see this as often updates later do remove Denuvo. Sometimes games on Origin and Epic get a version without Denuvo, while the Steam version continues to use Denuvo.