General News - Denuvo DRM on the Rise

Denuvo, the DRM infamous for affecting Dragon Age: Inquisition's gameplay, is apparently on the rise.  More AAA titles are to ship with the DRM this year, and more RPG's may use it in the future.

If this is the first time you have heard of Denuvo, it is a company that produces anti-tampering technology designed to protect DRM solutions. Which, in turn, is supposed to protect games from unauthorised use. In fact, its anti-tampering software was so notoriously difficult to crack that a Chinese cracking group, 3DM, had nearly given up on cracking Just Cause 3. The operative word is “nearly”, though.

Far Cry Primal, in particular, will contain a version of the software that “may remain even after the product is uninstalled from your computer”, as revealed in the game’s end-user license agreement. How this will affect the game’s performance or even your PC’s performance is not yet known.

Denuvo had been plagued by persistent rumours on how its software could shorten the life span of solid state drives (SSDs), since it supposedly encrypts and decrypts itself to make it stupendously difficult to crack. However, the company had released a statement that says that the software “does not constantly read or write any data to storage media”.

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