- Despite initial fears, Resident Evil Requiem Pirated versions do not work better than the commercial version.
- There were suspicions that the players who bought Requiem were worsening performance with Denuvo DRM
- There is still no version without Denuvo of Resident Evil Requiem
from capcom Resident Evil Requiem is among a long list of modern triple-A games from numerous popular studios that use Denuvo DRM to prevent piracy, which is notorious for its impact on gaming performance, but that’s not the case this time, at least for now.
As widely reported, Resident Evil Requiem It has been cracked with the ‘voices38’ hacking scene and by bypassing the Denuvo hypervisor. Despite reports suggesting it, there are no notable performance differences between the cracked versions and the retail version, as highlighted on Reddit.
These cracks don’t actually remove Denuvo; instead, they trick Denuvo into believing that the user is running a legitimate copy of the game, hence the term “avoidance.” In that case, it’s not clear if the presence of Denuvo is actually holding back performance, since there is no Denuvo-free version of it yet. Requiem.
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In fact, there are only rare cases where pirated games have Denuvo completely stripped of hacking scenes, a good example being Assassin’s Creed Origins for ‘Codex’ and other games that the developer himself removed Denuvo from.
From Requiem is already cracked, we may see Denuvo officially removed from the game sooner than we expected. Fortunately, however, the performance in Requiem It’s not a major concern to begin with, as it’s pretty well optimized to run at good frame rates on a wide range of hardware.
However, DRM like Denuvo for games has previously been shown to be detrimental to performance, and Capcom Resident Evil 4 The remake is a good example.
The Japanese developer added Enigma DRM to replace Denuvo in the game in early February, which significantly affected performance on all PC configurations, before removing it after strong backlash – and that’s for a game that was hacked months after its release in March 2023.
It’s also worth noting that while Denuvo doesn’t always impact performance in games, it can easily lock SteamOS (or any other Linux distro) users out of a game for 24 hours by switching Proton modes (which is necessary for certain games and their functionality).
There is no denying that Denuvo and other DRMs are very unpopular among gamers, and for good reasons, but so far, Requiem Consumers don’t have to worry about an unfair performance disadvantage over pirated versions.
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