Now here is something interesting. As we wrote in our PC Performance Analysis article, Assassin’s Creed: Origins requires a really powerful CPU. We also noted that the game uses the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And according to the latest reports, a new implementation of the Denuvo is causing 30-40% additional CPU usage in Ubisoft’s title.
Let’s start from the beginning. According to the scene group Revolt, Ubisoft has added VMProtect over Denuvo. Our guess is that the French team did this in order to protect its title from pirates. After all, we’ve seen all the latest Denuvo games getting cracked in less than a day. However, and at the time of writing, there is still no crack for Assassin’s Creed Origins.
That’s all good for Ubisoft, however Revolt claimed that this implementation brings a severe CPU performance hit. According to its reports, there is an additional 30-40% CPU performance hit with this new implementation.
Now we don’t know whether this claim is true at all, so take it with a grain of salt. Unfortunately there is no way to test whether Denuvo causes this abnormally high CPU usage in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. And that’s because if and when the game gets cracked, VMProtect and Denuvo will still run in the background. In short, and as with all Denuvo cracks, this will simply bypass the protections tools.
The only ones who can provide a truly “Denuvo-less” version of Assassin’s Creed: Origins is Ubisoft. However, and since Denuvo is still present in all of its previous games, we don’t expect the French company to remove it any time soon.
As said, take this with a grain of salt. Still, it will be interesting to see whether and if Denuvo and/or Ubisoft will respond to these reports!
Kudos to our reader ‘Deathstroke’ for informing us!
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Every body know Ubishi* is money hungry bunch of aholes. all their games suck. Dont buy ”games” from this idiots.
If I had a company I’d also be money hungry if Vivendi was threatening to own it. Not that it justifies Ubisoft being anti-consumer (even tho, most AAA companies are using Denuvo these days, it doesn’t make them a bunch of aholes), but I can understand them being desperate to make as much money as they can to keep independence.
And let’s not be haters now, some of their games are genuinely good, AC: Syndicate was a lot of fun, after that horrible technical sh*tshow that Unity was. Watch Dogs 2 was alright, Rainbow Six Siege has improved tremendously. Some are hit or miss, but you can’t seriously say they all suck, I doubt you even like videogames at that point.
Denuvo dont get you sales.
Most people who get illegal copies wouldn’t buy the game anyway.
This is common sense, and there’s even a recent research proving that (and even proving that piracy actually helps to increase sales)
Or, maybe they just have different tastes?
Hm, no, that can’t be.
For god sake, dont buy anything from ubisoft, and tell your friends not too either.
And, why not, stop a stranger on the street, on the market, on the bathroom, anywhere, and just tell him ”dont buy ubisoft games!”
F*ck, it ought to be taught in schools as well.
Why? I’ve been having fun with this game. And honestly, I think Ubisoft is doing a good job right now. They’re being more ethical than EA and Warner Bros, for sure.
And they all belong in the same bucket of sh*t, piss, and puke.
Eh, debatable. After all, U-BE-SOFT isn’t the one currently trying to push a pay-to-win AAA game onto the market.
Yeah, but they’re not an integral part of the progression system the way they are in Battlefront II.
Like, they’re definitely both bad, absolutely – terrible, even – but the way EA is crippling Battlefront II by attaching everything to gambling boxes doesn’t even begin to compare to U-BE-SOFT’S in-game loading screen adverts for shortcuts.
Because, yeah, the Middle-Earth: Shadow of Lootboxes thing was a joke then as much as it is now in Origins, but if nothing else, they did that to single-player focused games, not multi-player focused games.
Not that putting lootboxes & microtransactions into single-player games isn’t a massive f*cking joke, of course, but yeah.
Please do explain how. Ubisoft didn’t kill off visceral. Ubisoft isn’t making loads of $60 pay to win multiplayer games. Ubisoft isn’t even doing yearly releases anymore. Ubisoft isn’t putting loot boxes in single player stuff.
So they “protect” their products with anti tamper tech and paying customers get to lose CPU performance as a thankyou. That seems pretty anti consumer to me, all they care about is themselves and the money they get from you. Glad I stuck with ELEX.
Dunovo has been showing to have a non-affect on game performance multiple times in the past. I don’t see why that would change with AC.
It’s all rumor, and probably false.
“Dunovo has been showing to have a non-affect on game performance multiple times in the past.”
LOL, who did this research? people payed off by denuvo i bet. this is why gamergate happened.currpt people paying for good reviews and or press.
It’s been shown that Denuvo is doing alot more calls than it should, hense using the CPU alot more, it’s not checking the binary and files every hour, it’s doing it hundreds of times a second. We already know this because the people who cracked Denuvo said so and they are more believable.
Rime and Hitman, just off the top of my head, have seen tremendous improvements after Denuvo was taken out.
AFAIK, Denuvo acts as a virtual machine handling data… Of course it will impact performance…
look at all the delusional pirates trashing you lol
Look at the banned fool who came back for another match where they’re going to get thrashed – again.
Right? I don’t even acknowledge them. It’s the attention they crave. I’ll no provide it. I don’t even read their comments.
Cpy..
“So they “protect” their products with anti tamper tech and paying customers get to lose CPU performance as a thank you.”
all part of there plan. make sure to buy the “assassins creed 1080ti edition” for maximum framerates! make sure too buy a new intel cpu as well, because they get money from intel to force people to buy new cpu`s to play such a amazing game as assassins creed origins! dont you want to play your propaganda(WE WUZ KANGZ) the way its meant too be played?
I’m using a 1080ti and the game has some issues…
I’m using 1080ti as well. I get avg 53 fps at max settings 4k. Seems fine to me
It’s not CPU bottlenecking at 4K., though I’ve seen high CPU usage at 4K in the 80%, should be in the 50-60%.at 4K.
If you check out my posts in the performance analysis of this game, you’ll see there may just be something going on with Alexandria and Ryzen cpus
with 970 how many fps will it run on max settinfs 1440p?
Why would I know that?
Ubisoft being anti-consumer? Say it ain’t so!
Well what did you expect? Denuvo wasn’t working and these guys think they need to stop piracy. Drop in some anti tamper tech and raise the games requirements by 30-40%. The games not cracked yet. if this thing doesn’t get cracked for a while you better believe everyone will be doing this. Better upgrade those cpus.
As long as cd project doesnt do it with cyberpunk. I am not upgrading my cpu AGAIN.
I tested this game out with a i3 6100 cpu for kicks. it was bottlenecked but still playable. the drm sucks but budget cpus can get around this by playing with settings.
….. What? Uh, yeah, no.
Thats most certainly an option.
Denuvo is such a cancer not only it doesnt stop piracy at all,but it punish every users of the product
That would explain why all cores of my i7 7700K are almost always maxed out ingame.
Such a performance hit shouldn’t be okay.
we get it you have a 7700k lol
i just hope for your sake you OCed the crap out of it.
LOL… Just to state a more than okay CPU is still being over-used…
Not everyone reads all comments you know 😉
BTW… Did I told you about my 7700K ?
Let me just say this; in our current tehnologic era it’s not worth upgrading from any kind of i7 (that pushes out a decent 4hz) to any other i7. It’s a mere 10-15% upgrade.
it depents. We have 18 cores cpus now when until march we had 10 cores max. Going from a 4 core to8 core is huge upgrade. Like in my case, where iwent from core i5 2500k to ryzen 1700. HUGE IMPROVEMENT. Now we have 16 and 18 cores cpu. Can you imagine how huge improvement it will be from my ryzen 1700 to a 16 corei9 or thread ripper or the 18 core core i9? Even more huge!!
You did not read my comment to it’s full extent.
@elgidium:disqus if you’re sat on an i7 3770K (sold overclocked comfortably at 4.0-4.4GHz) there could well be a reason to upgrade onto a more modern CPU, improvements varying anywhere between 24-36% against an i7 7700K depending on what you measure and whether or not they’re both overclocked.
This isn’t even beginning to account for improvements in coding, architecture, memory restrictions, motherboard restrictions with the old CPU sockets or drivers/software that Intel offer for newer CPU models.
If you use your rig for anything other than gaming then it’s even worth questioning upgrading an i7-4790K now (depending on how CPU-intensive your work is). On the other hand most gaming-rigs have little-to-no reason to invest so much into a CPU. A flagship i5 will have almost the same longevity as its corresponding i7. With most games having lots of single-core heavy processes their frame-rates hardly vary in today’s titles.
Well said and spot on, I actually had 3770k and moved on to 4790k. I’m using mine for gaming on a hackingtosh. (meaning both systems)
Outside of Audio I’ve yet to see a point in macOS. In honesty I never gave it a fair trial. My eyes stopped at the high price tag vs all the limitations Apple sets, so I stayed clear from anything Apple to since release. To my knowledge a load of software engineers/network managers use them nowadays to run scripts on the go, but I’ve always assumed that was more for their laptops portability than the software it offers. Maybe it’s worth a bit of research some time rather than continuing to turn a blind eye every new hardware release.
Well I use it for work. There are quite a few apps that are Mac OS based and run really well. I built my own mac I never bought one.
Going from a 3700K to a 7700K certainly proved benefical both for work and gaming.
How easy was it to build your Hackintosh? I’ve been willing to build one for years now but never invested the time/hardware to try…
What kind of improvement did you notice?
Let’s just say hackingtosh was easier than building this.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9965b90113615c4c2be69c786b4875e4121048a1190cc07679bda0d849fe2214.jpg
sssswwwweeet ride !
Kudos
Thanks!
Nice job mate.
To be honest i cannot agree. First of all i would not change my CPU+MOBO+RAM for a bad optimized game, second of all I use my rig mainly for gaming (with a bit of video converting and subtitle mounting), I already tried with my friends and improvements in real world usage were minimal. I also builded a new system this january with a 6700k OC@4.6+1070 for a friend and did some benchmarks, my pc with was just few point under in cpu, but a custom bios 980ti was able to surpass the 1070 also OC, hence the score were about the same.
Third, yesterday I did few benchmarks with ACO, and I can conclude that the core clocks do not really help for average and minimal fps when you pass the 4.5 threshold. In 10 runs I did, (5@4.5ghz vs 5@5,0 ghz with my 2600k) in average minimal fps got worse by 1,5 fps, and only the total fps increased by 45 fps.
If I compare the best and the worst run for each clock the difference is basically nothing, because with ultra detail and 120% res scaling the maximal difference between runs (if I compare the best with 5ghz vs the worst with 4.5) was 7229 vs 7184, which is a mere 45fps = 0,622% improvement….
Also if I look the CPU timings vs the GPU timings the latter have a slightly higher lag (10ms vs 17) which is really strange because in other test I did (Doom) it was the other way around. Could this be a caused by my 8x pcie 2.0? Only further tests will tell, and maybe if other people run their benchmarks and tell me their bench setup we can all understand at least where is the problem.
Also if I look the CPU timings vs the GPU timings the latter have a slightly higher lag (10ms vs 17) which is really strange because in other test I did (Doom) it was the other way around. Could this be a caused by my 8x pcie 2.0? Only further tests will tell, and maybe if other people run their benchmarks and tell me their bench setup we can all understand at least where is the problem.
@Prometheus I’m not sure if you read my comment properly. The 24-36% improvement is a raw statistic for literal power, not frame rate…
That said, if you want to test the effects of CPU clock speeds then you shouldn’t be bottlenecking your rig by making it wait for the GPU to finish rendering ultra graphics… Try turning graphics down to minimum (lowest Res scaling too) so that there’s no other delay and the difference should be far more notable.
Sorry I did not mean to sound angry, nor I wanted to attack you. What I wanted to mean is that this Assassin’s Creed is the second game (the first was Watch Dogs 1), that actually makes my cpu struggle, hence I can wait till Ice Lake and call it a day. For a 3rd person action game, I’d rather stay in the 60s range with higher settings than have 100+ fps with lower ones. Counting this, the way you ask me to test the CPU capability is good for show general performance differences, but it won’t improve my own experience, for I never play@720. Hence, even if the improvements are, for obvious reasons in the 30% range (comparing my 2600k@5ghz vs a 7700k@5ghz), they won’t be as high in a normal gaming situation, and yes I keep the graphic settings high because I want to use my gpu fully. Basically, I try to use the bottleneck technic to my advantage: Instead of bottlenecking the cpu, I bottleneck the gpu once it reaches the framerate I want with the setting I want. This means that my test had, as first aim, to find out if, in a bottlenecking gpu situation (which is most of the time the most common gaming scenario), higher clocks will help the gpu give its best. Apparently, it won’t, that’s why I was suggesting that it could be the pcie fault (even if I doubt it, but I need few calculations and to study how to convert teraflops in GB/s, so I could see if a 980ti@ 1576mhz can produce more than 4 GB/s= pcie 2.0@8x).
What do you use it for? If it’s gaming, then there’s a small difference in performance between 4 cores/8 threads and 8C/16T. It’s likely going to be awhile before games make better use of the additional cores and threads.
Same thing for my 6700k @stock. The game stutters from time to time, even though it’s running at framerates higher than 60 all the time (1080p/very high). Hopefully a patch will fix these CPU issues.
blah blah blah keep whining lol
Apparently there are a lot of us whining, so that puts you roughly in the “macho” minority. Not to mention your name, pure cancer.
Cpy….
Let legit buyers suffer. They’re the ones who protect publishers from the hate we bring upon them.
Denuvo is bad. Running it through a VM called VMProtect is far worse. Both are paled in comparison by the need to invoke this two-headed monster every time an input is sensed. Every single time you touch a stick on your controller, whether it’s a small movement or a button press.. or move your mouse / click a key, you invoke VM laden Denuvo.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the VM smothered Denuvo layer is invoked several million times an hour. I would like to see someone run a test with a watt meter (plug in a wall, plug PC into that. Run a game like Unity or Black Flag for an hour at it’s highest settings and measure the total power drawn. Then put Origins on it’s lowest possible settings and do the same. I’ll bet Origins pulls 3x more power per hour, at least 70% more on a conservative guess.
Ubisoft is killing the earth.
As usual, pirates always win (it’s only a matter of time before they crack this sucker) and legitimate customers lose. Who really wants to play such an awful series anymore anyways?
Why are people still using outdated arguments to protect companies’ justifications for DRM use? The news that piracy doesn’t hurt, but helps sales for wealthy shareholders and execs was plastered on every gaming and tech site a few months back. Google the industry suppressed 300+ page report regarding piracy and displacement rates.
After being cracked so quickly and proof of sales increases, their persistence to force DRM on law abiding consumers instills curiosity.
“Cover your *ss” manoeuvre so that when a shareholder brings up piracy in their ignorance, they can point to Denuvo & say “we bought the best the anti-piracy industry has to offer! :D”
After all, shareholders are morons in suits, so what can you expect from them.
Just like bankers, loansharks with a tie. They noth go hand in hand perfectly.
Can’t wait until Denuvo becomes the next Starforce. Here’s hoping they learn this time.
Amazing game, a great all in one package for idiots. it has Denuvo, VMP, Lootboxes, Microtransactions and season pass and tons of different editions, also Uplay and i heard it has a great level design as well, liberating x amount of camps, wow. what more do you want ? they do all of these just for the players.
wolfenstein is worse actually. 6 hour game, 3.5 hours of cutscenes. 45 gb 60 bucks. Repetitive gameplay, generic corridor level design, cringefest of a story. Amazing sequel say the game journos.
Kim Jong-un please nuke the west. DO IT.
Well, state of AAA gaming. less content, lower quality and more expensive ($$$,System req,Size).
LOL
from all gameplays i have seen it has same fast paced fps gameplay like the previous wolfestein games. i am sure it must be good.
The best part is it will sell millions anyway. We’re living in an age where Donald Trump runs a country.
He’s doing a lot better job than the AAA gaming industry is, at least he is lowering tax, more jobs, making the economy better while AAA industry is running themselves into the ground. lol
He’s going to lower taxes for rich people and he hasn’t done anything for the economy.
No, working class and he benefited from Hilary’s tax policy because she did too yet claimed Trump didn’t pay tax, when she didn’t lol because of her own policy lol. More jobs equals better economy, more companies doing business in the U.S. By the way, if you benefit from the tax cuts, give the govenement you tax saving back then, I’m sure the liberals would do that, not. lol
The last time the US did as great was when another actor was in charge…
Of course the country was smart enough to pick one of the few conservatives in Hollywood/TV each time 🙂
Boo-hoo-hoo. It’s been a year, this is getting old.
Actually, scratch that; this got old 6 months ago, now it’s just tedious.
A lot of people think that the President runs America but he doesn’t. The irony is that he’s trying to run the country like a CEO and he’s failing hard. He desperately needs the Congress and Senate approval if he ever wants to get anything done and he’s alienated not only the Democrats but a large group of the Republicans as well. I think Trump will be one term and probably go down in the history books as ineffectual. The only reason he won is it was either him or Hillary.
It seems that he got by as a CEO just bullying people. Unfortunately for him people like McCain don’t give a crap about what some draft-dodging baby says on Twitter.
You forgot the SJW diversity Egypt KANGZ. More pandering for people like Anita Bitc***eesian.
Yeah every character in a videogame should be a straight white male.
I’m as sensitive to SJW nonsense as the next rational person, but I have to admit, there really isn’t much of it to be found in this game, so far anyways, about 25 hours in.
” VMProtect is running non-stop” + Denuvo.
This could explain a lot with all the high CPU usages you see with everybody who post video’s with OSD on no matter what CPU they use. Hopefully Ubisoft removes the garbage so we can see if anything changes utilization wise.
Couldn’t it just be the excessive AI calculations in this game that encumber the CPU so much? AFAIK the AI is run on the CPU.
Could be but there seems to be more evidence that VMProtect and Denuvo is doing it, can confirm VMProtect is running constantly in the background checking and we know Denuvo does this as well, on top of the fact that this is a CPU heavy game doesn’t help. Ubisoft open world games are very draw call heavy yes but Ubisoft have been actively reducing draw calls in their engine code, I’ve seen them quote this.
Yeah it’s cancer 🙁 Hopefully time will shine some light on this, and if it’s really VM/Denuvos fault for high CPU usage, then they’re in some deep sh*t.
A “quote” is not “evidence” for a specific stated amount of load that a collection of code is placing on a semiconductor. A “quote” is simply evidence that another person said something, regardless of that statement’s validity. There is no “evidence” that VMProtect and Denuvo are causing the high CPU usage that every other AC title in the past without these two DRM’s has always had. Only an unsubstantiated guess of “30-40% hit on the CPU” because Denuvo and VMProtect are merely present.
Baldman should come out of retirement to remove denuvo from this so we will know for sure.
oh yeah you f~!king little pirate shi*
CPY.
Yarrgh!
Without Rime being cracked we probably would have never known what was crippling its performance. As a paying customer I felt cheated.
DRM shouldn’t impact performance so much that a pirated copy sounds like the better option.
w2 is 6 hours and 3.5 hours of that is cutscenes.
HowLongToBeat has it at 9 hours for the main story, 22 hours for main + extras. Even so, that’s really not that much.
I’d say the comparison is largely moot, as those are only preliminary numbers, but we’ll see.
Either way, 22 hours of gameplay for $60 is a ripoff.
It also depends on how you play the game. For me, as someone who explores a lot and takes good amount of time studying small details, admiring the graphics and take my time listening on NPC conversations… That keeps adding up to the total game time. Personally I’m enjoying the cr*p out of it, such a well crafted game and with great attention to detail. Runs great too, I’m maxing it out (except for Texture Streaming which i dropped down to Ultra) in 4K on my 980Ti, I’m averaging 40-60 FPS.
” such a well crafted game”
It has horrible story, horrible level design and its short.
Come on, this is trash compared to old blood let alone tnc.
i agree, old blood got it right. TNO…
for f-‘s sake, they even tried to force some background into bj that is like “WT…” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6701ffba1bb19c31821cb06746bad95e0f03cd98818f5792d43c59ff54dad46a.jpg
Replay value is important, absolutely, but so is base game time & since it doesn’t have to be either-or, base game time is most definitely an important factor that stands completely separately of replay value.
20+Hrs is TW3, TNO is like 3Hrs on the hardest difficulty dying alot because you didn’t stealth… (me btw)
while stealth? yup. if you drift alot (slide) and skip the cutscenes… not really.
mate its 6 hours for the main campaign the last game was 12 or 10.
“And technically it’s unlimited gameplay as you can replay the game as many times as you want”
ahahahahhahaa
lol
“You can try different play styles and different difficulties ”
HAHAHAH lol, but seriously this is not far cry.
How long to beat is not to be trusted after a few weeks have passed so you got a more balanced view.
I use it too but you cant use it when the game is out for a short amount of time.
22 hours of collecting collectables. How long to beat “main and extras” is always too much and overblown.
but then why revies say it is 15 hours if as you say it is only 3 hours of gameplay and another 3 of cutscnes? i wil play it when nvidia driver optimzed for the game releases
Reviewers are full of crap. They said TNO was 15-20 hours it was 12.
There are side missions which are basicly the same levels re visisted, to add more game time.
Seriously the reviews on this game are all off , i am facepalming reading them. Its like someone paid them to say that this overpiced dlc is a good sequel. LOL NO, arkham city was a good sequel evil within 2 was a good sequel this is like resident evil 5 compared to resident evil 4
then whem they say 6 hours they mean if we do only main mission and not side missions?
Reviewers are full of crap. They said TNO was 15-20 hours it was 12.
There are side missions which are basicly the same levels re visisted, to add more game time.
Seriously the reviews on this game are all off , i am facepalming reading them. Its like someone paid them to say that this overpiced dlc is a good sequel. LOL NO, arkham city was a good sequel evil within 2 was a good sequel this is like resident evil 5 compared to resident evil 4.
At this point if you have a functioning brain
you’ed uninstall Uplay and avoid their games period (same with EA)
if you really want to play this game, torrent it rather than buy it
seemingly the cracked version runs better than the purchased one, probably because it doesn’t need to check the connection every 5 seconds or so
AC:unity had a similar problem, in online mode they would chop off 20-30% of the FPS for no good reason, when i turned online mode off, the game ran much smoother and in a more consistent FPS
in conclusion, Ubisuck still sucks, Uplay is still $hit, and you should avoid this Kangs version of Hollywood Egypt
I don’t pay for propaganda… Plenty of that free of charge everywhere nowadays…
Too much SJW/ leftist narrative in that game for my taste. I didn’t feel bad at all for pirating it for that reason, which is a shame since I loved the new order/ old blood
same and you know what, i could ignore that if it had good level design and a lengthy campaign but its 6 hours with 3.5 hours of cutscenes.
They see things that aren’t there. Black people, small amount of Jews, women and killing Nazi’s? Why it’s propaganda, I tell you…
They sound like angry old men turned conspiracy theorists.
actually it’s the whole twitter thing that is making people complain about propaganda, and djs also says it:
wich is true. on mah 1st playtru i got to watch the cutscenes…
ahahahahahaahahahahahhaha f~!king pirates deserves it lol
and look at the pedo john(author) acting so innocent while going into so much inscripted detail of piracy lol f~!king pirate imma innocent we don’t support piracy but we tell when the games gets cracked get your torrents ready everyone lol
Cpy…
learn what they gotta protect their stuff from pirates lol
Nope!
Cpy.
it don’t did you see rumor in the title this pedo is doing this to get traffic as you can see it is still protected which is a good thing
It doesn’t affect sales, either.
P.S. “pedo”? Seriously?
I don’t get the connection between pirating and pedo either. I think this guy just has bad wiring.
Cpy
i hope it never gets cracked so you will be pirating shi*
you f~!king pirate
CPY
nah if it will get cracked. Unlike other t*rds though I don’t need to take a moral high ground and say am doing it for ethical reasons. NO DRM is good, I can pirate all day without ever needing to buy. Nothing like taking the work devs make, work they spent years making HUEHUE.
My salt mine is doing great business with all the Tramp haters, console peasants and people like you. LOL
I don’t know much about Revolt but I trust their word more than I do Ubisoft.
i don’t know, Rick, it looks fake.
Leave it to Ubisoft to be as much anti-consumer as possible. I honestly don’t understand people buying anything they released in last 10 years. They tried to use draconian DRM since asscreed 2.
Or they just don’t know about it.
“Happily” being a stretch. As for the rest, that’s far too much of a blanket statement. For example; I don’t like uPlay but I tolerate it when necessary, whereas I have no tolerance for Denuvo, especially when it’s negatively affecting performance.
Denuvo more and more looks like a crypto mining bloat to me. I wouldnt be surprised if thats the case and profit is shared among denuvo and developer
Wouldn’t be surprised. Sounds like something Ubisoft would do.
They never learn. Make great DRM-free games like Witcher 3 and you’ll sell like hell.
This game has everything. SJW diversity Egypt, Denuvo cancer, Season Pass, Microtransactions lootbox. Seriously what more you want?
This has nothing to do with Denuvo but Ubisoft, the poor implementation of Denuvo and VM Protect on top that kill the performance.
Then again it’s Ubisoft, I never expected a proper PC Port from them!
Denuvo has always caused impact on resources usage, even in the past.
I’ve played both a DRM and DRM-free version of Hitman, RiME and DOOM and believe me, the DRM-free felt far more butter smooth.
Considering I own all those games since day one, I can also confirm only RiME was affected by Denuvo, due to poor implementation.
I think it’s the other way around, they’ve done their studies 10+ years ahead. It’s us, as a community that has to learn from their PIT maneuvers.
Ubisoft should get the Darwin Award for this. It would be one thing if Denuvo actually worked. How are these Denuvo guys even making any money? It’s my understanding that if the game gets cracked quickly then there’s no charge for Denuvo.
It’s less to do with making the game uncrackable, and more to do with making it uncrackable for the first two weeks after release. Most people that want to play a game will buy it within two weeks of its release if there isn’t a pirated copy available, which means more sales at full game price. The rest of the sales come later in much smaller quantities when the game goes on sale.
If they can prevent the game from being cracked in the first two weeks, offering no pirated alternative in that time to those that want to play the game, then they will make most of their money and not lose it to pirates. After that period, it’s less important that the game remain uncrackable.
Well ppl in this comment section did not take any of this with a grain of salt , it seems..
they are all pirates they hate denuvo they need any reason to trash denuvo and support piracy f~!king pirates
Well has it been cracked ? If so, compare ?
Why should we wait till some group crack the game to compare ? If Ubisoft is fair enough it will show us the performance of the game running with and without Denuvo.
Well said. But this won’t happen.
i hope so
Well this makes it a pass for pc users. sometimes i wonder why they bother to make a pc port.
Maybe because they wanted 250 million Euros from PC gamers in their last fiscal year. Ubisoft isn’t doing us a favor by porting their games to PC. They are making a huge amount of money from us. Yes, they make most of their money from Xbox One and PS4 but they also have around 18% of their revenue from PC gamers and it’s going up year after year. Google Ubisoft Financial Report 2016/2017 if you want to see.
Damn great info 64k!
With the monsters cpus we have now thakns to competitiion from amd this wont be an issue anyway now that 8 core cpus are affordable with ryzen 7.
and we have 18 cores and 16 cores already(i9 and threadrippe).
And if this becomes a law what does it means? What will they use it for? Since not evryone uses youtube. Should all of us delete youtube accounts now?
No, it’s a proposal to extend YouTube’s Content ID system to more websites, in order to help fight copyright infringement. It won’t get anywhere because the YouTube system is already as moronic as can be. Either way, that wasn’t the point I wanted to make, it’s just what the video is headed as. The contents of it beyond the YouTube thing are far more relevant & interesting compared to this joke cooked up by a bunch of ignorant sh*ts in suits who’ll get shouted into oblivion if they try to take this too far.
Congrats Ubisoft and Denuvo. 4k Zelda Breath of the Wild on CEMU emulation with 4k texture packs, high resolution shadows and the clarity pack now plays better than an Assassin’s Creed game. BRAVO. I can’t wait for all Triple A gaming to die except Nintendo and CDPR. They are the only things worth keeping. Funny how in the last video game crash PC devs and Nintendo is what kept video games alive. History about to repeat itself.
So let’s sum up the Triple A gaming industry atm and why it’s about to crash. Wolfenstein 2 is not selling because of the worst marketing campaign ever that must cost a fortune. I see their commercials all over TV and this game will probably lose 20-30 million dollars. What makes it even funnier is if you look at the Zenimax (owns Bethesda and Wolfenstein) Board of Directors, Trump’s brother is on it. ME:A didn’t sell because their company went full on feminist and incompetent cult members hired incompetent cult members at Bioware (see Sam Maggs claiming virtual rape in GTA V for the ultimate lols).
The Triple A industry is taking this as a sign single player games are failing, while Nintendo rakes in the cash and Sony as well. Sony is about to commit seppuku though, by letting Neil Druckmann (ran Amy Hennig out who was the lead on Uncharted and who EA hired at Visceral for a Star Wars game with a male protagonist they just shut down ) run Naughty Dog into the ground with a feminist agenda. Single player games that aren’t COMPLETE feminist propaganda are only going to be found on PC (and Nintendo) with things like Divinity Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity.
No one trusts corrupt game journalism or any journalism anymore (expect sites like DSO to grow because of this) which gives anything that is perceived SJW (STD vs The Orville, Ghostbusters movie) a stupidly high score, with audiences laughing at them and not buying in. Example Doom got a 7.x on IGN. Wolf 2 a 9.x, when Doom had a better campaign and multiplayer. On the PC devs think piracy and not politics is why game sales are crashing. So they are doing things like Denuvo. CDPR made the entire Triple A industry look like clowns (they will survive the crash as will other PC devs) and people now realize how bad Triple A is. The only thing and trick Triple A still has left is “games as a service” and Destiny clones which will get old quick and the market will collapse. Couldn’t come at a better time. The industry needs blown up. Ubisoft, Activision, Bethesda and EA need to die. Blizzard will keep Activision afloat, but for how long? They will have to change everything about their stupid company. When the industry dies, remember what killed it.
After reading all of the post on the official ubisoft ACO forums regarding the poor performance and extremely high cpu usage I won’t be purchasing this game any time soon.
Thanks for the heads up people!
“suppresing'” Not really the pirate party put up those findings. The EU commision is filled with idiots though, but they are the only ones fining google and facebook.
The report was commissioned two years ago, but never made public. They used specific portions which suited their narrative a year afterwards, but never revealed the full report. When the German politician tried to go after it, they stonewalled her in multiple ways using sh*tty excuses.
Ergo, they purposefully suppressed it & then tried to stop her from getting her hands on it so she couldn’t find out that they’d suppressed it.
Well, it has begun. Denuvo is becoming the new Starforce.
Revolt is P2P, not Scene.
Its 2017 where companies protect Denuvo, instead of it being the other way around
You can easily fight with this. Just go and write a negative review on steam page . Make sure to say this. They have to answer us. I pay 60$ for this game and I want optimized game.
“Denuvo causes 30-40% additional CPU usage in Assassin’s Creed: Origins”
Could be but there seems to be more evidence that VMProtect and Denuvo is doing it, can confirm VMProtect is running constantly in the background checking and we know Denuvo does this as well, on top of the fact that this is a CPU heavy game doesn’t help. Ubisoft open world games are very draw call heavy yes but Ubisoft have been actively reducing draw calls in their engine code, I’ve seen them quote this.
EA forces origin. Ubisoft has optimized their recent games rather well. EA uses denuvo and commonly uses always online. Ubisoft adds graphical features to the PC versions (refer to digital foundry video on watch dogs 2 & there’s a video comparing console and PC versions of ghost recon wildlands where PC looks about 10x better than either console version) And EA has killed way more legendary studios and series than Ubisoft has. Use an example harder to refute. I’m sure others will agree with this.
Remeber every game they released after that that was pretty much fine? Aside from Unity, of course
I really hope they crack this game. Ubisofts DRM is cancerous. It’s unacceptable that 40% of the CPU is eating up by DRM. Next step for Ubisoft is running a bitcoin miner in that “40%” overhead…
I’m not per se for piracy but gamers who buy a game from Ubisoft have the right to get a proper optimised game for their system. Ubisoft also puts quite a lot of time and money to optimise their games for the gameconsoles. If they would put at least 25% of that to optimise for the PC we wouldn’t have this shady sh*t were Ubisoft is famous for over the last 10 years…
LEL it doesn’t.
“According to the scene group Revolt, Ubisoft has added VMProtect over Denuvo. Our guess is that the French team did this in order to protect its title from pirates”
No way!! Do you really f’ing think so??? Serious detective work going on here at DSOG…….
Had a pretty painful experience too..
my i7 7800x nearly screwed up.Had to refund the game after the day I purchased it.Looks like Ubisoft takes more care of pirates rather than the consumers. 🙁
How did it screw up, over-heat?
in some asian country(s) i think S.korea but im not sure ,they had online passports since a long time now.i always wondered how long it would to get implemented here.
I’m guessing you haven’t actually played any of these…