Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”

Re:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” by ndiddy on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:48PM (#36648607)

When you start a Denuvo game, it sends various information about your computer (CPUID, OS information, etc) to Denuvo's servers, and the servers in turn generate a license file. The game exe will contain at least a few hundred functions that are VM obfuscated and will use your license file in combination with your computer information to decrypt parts of the code and continue execution. If you change some aspect of your computer hardware, you update your OS, or if the license file expires, the game will download a new license file from Denuvo's servers on launch.

All of this means that when Denuvo's servers get shut down, any game that hasn't been cracked will no longer run.

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Re:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” by slowmovintarget on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:11PM (#36648819)

I also recall there being concerns over what Denuvo does to SSDs. It basically dramatically increases the number of writes to disk, causing them to wear our much faster than they would otherwise.

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Re:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” by c-hendricks on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:05PM (#36650390)

Would love to see your sources, everything I've found says that's not actually the case

> Causes excessive HDD/SSD reads/writes which degrades the lifespan of storage drives. > > The origins of this rumor are various user reports from 2014 and "tests" performed using Lords of the Fallen and Dragon Age: Inquisition. This has been denied and debunked multiple times by both Denuvo themselves,[13] publishers/developers, and other users since then. As shown in the technical information section, Denuvo Anti-Tamper performs minimal read and write operations to the drive, and there is no benefit to do additional drive reads or writes in terms of security or performance.[14]

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Denuvo

It's fine to not like DRM. It's another thing to spread FUD and appeal to emotions.

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Re:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” by slowmovintarget on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:46AM (#36654882)

I recall reading that at the time, and simply choosing to avoid Denuvo and waiting to buy titles that included it.

I'm willing to update my credence on that idea. Thank you.

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Re:Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” by c-hendricks on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:10PM (#36650432)

This is an issue with DRM in general.

I think my issue with the comment I replied to was the appeal to emotion while saying nothing specific about Denuvo.

I feel the ship has sailed on DRM, and that the solution to people feeling slighted because something they purchased contained DRM without them knowing will be stores listing DRM a game uses, not stopping the use of it.

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