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[Overlord Gaming] Denuvo performance impact tested before and after DRM was removed. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Denuvo is a cache defeat mechanism. Of course it kills performance. If CPUs still worked like 386s and 68000s, having eight copies of every function and bouncing merrily between them would make no difference. But modern processors are only fast because they spend negligible time waiting for RAM to get its act together. Every squandered microsecond is a thousand cycles burned.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

The one that kills me is the PC release of Project Diva. Denuvo usually gets pulled after a year or so, because it's not a one-time purchase for the publisher, they charge a recurring license fee. But for some ungodly reason, SEGA's decided to keep paying to have it in a rhythm game. For two and a half years, you just... sometimes lose inputs or miss a note you should've hit, because Denuvo decided you're gonna stutter just there.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As usual, DRM punishes paying customers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also punishes pirates because the only person in the world who can crack Denuvo is a completely unhinged psycho asshole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't really affect the pirates, they can just ignore what she says and use her cracks to enjoy the game or wait until they remove Denuvo I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but it also means they have to wait for her to do her thing before they can get access to the game.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How about a quick summary. TL:DW?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In every case, Denuvo balloons the exe file size by 4-5x (we're talking 400-500 MB for a <100 MB game exe), can increase loading times between 10-400%, and in most cases, lowers framerates between 10-40%, and can introduce microstutters. There are a few outliers where Denuvo's removal coincides with worse framerates for some reason. But essentially, removing Denuvo speeds things up a lot, especially download size and loading times.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll have to look later but it will be good to have sourceable evidence for this if it's true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Literally watch the video

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I mean, I will. I literally said that.