As we reported in our PC Performance Analysis, Resident Evil Village was suffering from some really annoying stuttering issues. And, from the looks of it, the culprit behind those stutters was Capcom’s own DRM. Earlier today, EMPRESS cracked this latest Resident Evil game. And, we can now confirm that the pirated version does not suffer from any stuttering issues.
From the looks of it, the culprit behind these stutters is Capcom’s DRM. EMPRESS claims that the game uses Capcom’s anti-tamper V3 and Denuvo V11.
“All in-game shutters like the one from when you kill a zombie are fixed because Capcom DRM’s enty points are patched out so most of their functions are never executed anymore. This results in much smoother game experience.”
In order to thoroughly test the game, we’ve played the pirated version for over two hours and killed numerous enemies. And, surprisingly enough, we did not get a single stutter during these two hours. Even the catacombs at Lady Dimitrescu’s castle, an area notorious for its stuttering issues when killing enemies, was stutter-free.
This could very well explain why Capcom has not commented on the game’s stuttering issues. Over the past couple of months, PC gamers were asking for a fix. And, thanks to piracy, we now know what is causing them.
Now I don’t encourage you to pirate the game. However, it’s really disappointing witnessing – yet another – game running better via its pirated/cracked version.
Below you can find a video that shows how silky smooth the cracked version of Resident Evil Village actually is!
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It is a well known fact but people forgets, it was same with DmC5, but after some months if you go to steam and say that Denuvo affects the performance, people will come rushing in calling you out as a pirate or say just dont buy and move along.
I dont blame Capcom, its the consumers who are at fault here, stop shilling out money and they will leaarn, but it wont happen, there’s people who will jump to the pre-order bandwagon allowing these publishers to do whatever they want. I mean people have already bought STALKER 2!!
here the notes from cracker to understand the issues https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bee9c6e00a0dcfdd972e4bf9d7c3ceb073ef78504184be9a3e01c801905a1382.png
Note from cracker
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also, Don’t worry CAPCOM will remove DRM malware from the game in 1-2 years
“…stop shilling out money and they will leaarn, but it wont happen….”
You’re absolutely right on both counts. It won’t happen.
We’re eyeball deep in the era of where people are perfectly fine with paying to change the colour of something in a game.
That’s what the average “gamer” has devolved in to. Paying for skins, and colour changing, maps, and in some cases, something as hilariously stupid as an additional save slot.
This industry is going to hell in a handbasket, and personally, I can’t wait till it gets there, so it can implode and be reset. I’d hit the gas on that train, if I were in control.
The last line speaks volumes to me and the situation. I’m of exactly the same opinion. Hasten the demise so that all the scumbags, after they’re done picking bones, move along to ruin something else. Then we can hit reset and rebuild.
if you read the report its actually not Denuvo’s fault this time Capcom is following Ubisoft’s example and is doubling the DRM only instead of Denuvo+Vmprotect they are using Capcom’s original DRM+Denuvo and this combination of DRM is the cause of the stuttering. This is only beginning though as this may inspire other developers to do the same thing as many of them believe that Denuvo is not enough anymore to stop their games from being pirated the worst case scenario is that they may go nuts and spam as many DRM’s as they believe they would need just to try and stop piracy so we may see games with 3 or 4 levels of DRM on them in the future which would make it suckier for real buying customers.
You are right I agree it won’t happen ever
I used to be a pre order foolshi the last game I’ve pre orded was CyberBug 2077
I won’t do it again
Lmao you preordered the worst thing possible in years.
lololol yeah I know my bad you readed my mind
I shall not pirate this video game for honor and glory because I already bought it and it’s both a shetty sequel to RE7 and a shetty RE game overall.
get the crack anyway, it will make it run better.
I deleted it from my ssd. any good games to play?
i liked sniper super ghost warrior nibba contracts the second.
meh
Decades worth of good games to play on PC.
I never had any stuttering issues to begin with.
Ironic
If you would have visited here more often, you’d know who looks like a monkey right now.
Fascinating findings, John.
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Wait this game was cracked just watched the whole gameplay haha for some reason i thought it was going to take longer to crack.
it was gonna take less time but apparently the cracker was busy with real life stuff. Its interesting how many stuff capcom put in the game to protect it from pirates. Like seriously guys, wtf? Next capcom game will be unplayable.
The story of the game is meh at best gameplay is slightly better than 7 which was ok.
I’ve never had any performance issues with drm (including dmc v) and and I never intend to ever play this game but if this is in fact true then shame. Microstutters are the worst and if capcom knew this was the culprit here then shame on them. Find another drm solution and don’t release it til you get it right.
They did put DRM triggers on enemy deaths. How stupid can you really be?
You’re comment is so dumb it’s hard to even respond to it. I can only assume you didn’t actually read my comment or you’re just a tool.
Reading comprehension is not your strongest suit it seems. Stupid was dedicated to Capcom, silly.
May DMC5 didn’t have Denuvo AND this in house Capcom DRM that RE8 has. I believe the person that cracked said the microstutters were caused by Capcoms own DRM they added to RE 8 in addition to Denuvo.
Does it matter if it’s one or the other or both combined? It’s still screwing over PC gamers and people who buy games. Denuvo has routinely shown to at the very least affect load time and at most be detrimental towards performance in general. It’s still as cancerous as any other anti piracy measure and often worse.
i am the one person on here who says don’t pirate games and I don’t pirate games but this has opened my eyes and I would pirate this game, this is shocking from Capcom
Not shocking and not the first time this happened.
I thought it was a myth that these issues happened as in losing a few FPS of thw highest frames per second that was in the 100’s already but the actual stuttering in game is abysmal
ubisoft patched a crashes in rainbow six vegas 2….wait for it….with a crack.
“DRM only punishes the consumer”, still true 30 years later.
Will always be true.
And these idiots will always buy them, so it doesn’t even matter it seems.
And here i had this one on wishlist…guess ill just go to skidrow shop
Your move Capcom. Remove both – the denuvo bloatware and the custom antitamper that you put in every damn game which does nothing but increase microstutters.
Why would they? They made millions and none of the idiots that bought that crap even cares. They just wanna support their FOMO.
This isn’t even the biggest issue. The biggest issue is the massive frame rate drops randomly. I will go from 120 to like 40 and it will stay until I reload or restart the game.
“hear me out guys, we have 50+ drm plus anti temper systems in the game plus online server check and the game checks if you are using hacks every time you press a button”
“but that will make it impossible to run, emulating the game will run better than this and there will be super stutters everywhere”
“just up the the requirements, lets make sure only people who spend 2000 on a pc can play our games, this is how we gonna make more money by appealing to a wider audience”
seriously though wtf is wrong with these companies.
Apparently next game to be cracked is battlefront 2 with all the dlc? Isnt that game multiplayer with a garbage singleplayer campaign? Also isnt it already cracked? Also didnt they give it away in epic store a while ago, i got it then but never tried it because who cares. oh well, we are at a point that people pay crakers to crack the latest versions of mp games because…reasons. Everything is so lame these days.
Gotta agree with the cracker though “THIS IS CANCER AND NO ONE SHOULD ACCEPT THIS ESPECIALLY THE CONSUMERS”
“and how she flips from Empire to Rebels is crazy. ”
more like expected leftist propaganda. Same as that black guy in the star wars movies. The last ones i mean.
To think that some ign c3ck who was on anita sarkeesian video and one of the writers of spec ops the line wrote this trash.
Well i wouldnt call it “sht” it certainly isnt as good as re4 and doenst have as nolinear elements as re2 remake but it sure is better than 7 in every way apart from story. Id say its better than 5.
“But what about 6?”
Dude 6 is an action game, just set it on easy to have more ammo and increase the fov and have fun sliding around and kicking zombies in the face.
That is so true… You just read my mind
It’s not better than 7 but it’s still a good game even if it’s kinda unfinished with it’s weapons system. Kinda a waste though it wants you to play through multiple times but it’s just not satisfying shooting things in the head when it doesn’t kill them.
7 aiming was awful and had alot of hidey sections and the environments were muddy and small.
7 takes place in a house in the middle of Louisiana swamp of course the environment are muddy and small dumbass
“its suppose to take place in an ugly sewer with sht all over”
Sites spreading Empress lies without testing. The first thing my cracked game did after killing the first Lycan is a stutter like in the original game.
Explains the silence and lack of patches from Capcom.
To clarify, it’s caused by Capcom’s own DRM intensifying the impact of the Denuvo DRM. Remove either DRM and the issue stops. In this case the hacker removed Capcom’s DRM, not Denuvo.
so same with ubisoft using vm and their own drm?
Yep.
Glad I won’t be buying this game and instead using the DRM free version!
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I feel like a f@cking loser for buying this game.
No more money from me capcom.
2 Months and not a single patch.
Capcom is not known for updating things often.
don’t worry, pirates got your back, supporting the game with the free performance patch
confirmed
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
I never noticed or had any problems with the game. Only a single area where you head to the top/attic there was a big frame dip but other then that it was a solid experience. Regardless since it’s been cracked I expect the DRM will be removed from steam soon now anyways.
Had this problem as well, but there was a stuttering everytime I killed an enemy, and that svcks cause you’re sorrounded by them in lots of ocasions.
The reason the stutters happen is in fact caused by Denuvo. I was able to fix my stuttering in many Denuvu protected games by using a software firewall (not the garbage Windows one) and blocking any net connections from the games process, now unfortunately this is only a temporary solution as after some time Denuvo will require you to re-authorize the game after some days but technically you can just whitelist the game for a moment, let it authorize and then go back to blocking it.
a lot of these game cracks disable the drm triggers, doing much the same so I am not surprised in the slightest that the stuttering issues are resolved because of it.
It’s because the stuttering is caused by Capcom also adding their own DRM on top of Denuvo. That’s what causes the micro-stutter every time a enemy is killed and other similar stuttering issues.
And that’s annoying af.
I thought it was my PC, and then I saw everyone online complaining about it.
Should have waited a little more before buying this one.
These people have to either be the slowest learners in the history of forever, or simply avaricious a**holes with contempt for every single person alive.
It’s one, or the other. There’s no in between.
The history of copy protection and its impacts, is long and well documented. It never does its job without noteworthy harm to legit buyers, and they continue to insist on using it without a care of their customers.
You would do well to remember, that the developers themselves don’t always choose to include DRM or other such solutions. It’s often mandated from above and they’re contractually obliged before they even complete work on the game.
All this to say, that the people who actually do decide to use DRM, anti-tamper and copy protection in games, are so far removed from not only developers of the game but also and especially players themselves. These execs wouldn’t know a video game if it hit them in the face. They’ll never sit down and play the games their companies create. Instead, their response if you were to make them aware of the negative impacts, would be something along the lines of:
“Did it make it hard enough, that some people gave up trying or waiting and bought the game instead?”
The answer to that is always ‘yes’, however unfortunate.
“There you go then”, they’d argue.
So long as they’re running the show, this will continue. Capcom will not “learn”, because there’s nothing to learn for them. Especially not what we would like the moral of this story to be.
“It’s often mandated from above and they’re contractually obliged before they even complete work on the game.”
Ya, these are precisely the people I’m referring to. Actual developers aren’t avaricious a**holes. It is the suits above them.
The inherent problem to this is as follows:
Small studio makes a game. People love and buy that game.
Small studio gets a buyout offer or is outright bought without approval.
Execs of the mother company starts to shift things around, demanding new approach etc, because they see the small studio as a cash cow.
Small studio becomes either big studio by continued success (and starts to make BoringGamingTrends stuff) or is killed via EA owned studios for underperforming.
Therefore AAA industry is for the bigger part completely dead.
It’s not Resident Evil, that’s for sure. Capcom should give the IP to someone who actually knows how to treat it with respect and return to the lore of 1-3. Everything after the first 3 is not RE in my book.
They clearly have no clue about horror games and should stick with their action shlock.
RE4 is the exception in some ways. Though, it could just as easily have been a new IP or at least a spin-off, rather than a direct sequel. It was still fun and exciting, if utterly bonkers and very much not RE of old but more a sign of things to come. In fact, RE4 fits better in continuity and tone with RE7 and 8 than 1-3. Strange then, that they took such a long break only to come back around to it.
Still, all that said and with any other criticisms we can throw at Capcom, they are putting other companies to shame with their remakes. Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, plenty of others could all do well to follow Capcom’s lead.
Love it!
Keep sailing the high seas for the loot is precious!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDWEWd4skA worth an article
A little bourbon will fix stuttering too…
Finally, now I can test it out. I’m interested about that vampire trio
This just makes it look more like Capcom is being paid by Sony to make their games on PC and Xbox worse on purpose.
Name me a game that is good?
And yet exists Ubisoft who is far more worse. people still shill out cash for their garbage 5 layers of DRM!.
Ubisoft has a track record of hating PC user base, nothing new in this regard.
But why do these gamers keep buying this filth. I don’t understand this behavior. None of the games on Uplay works without an internet connection. They all have layers upon layers of DRM & If you just move to a new place and have no internet for the time being, you are fuqed.
only modern game i really like from ubisoft is for honor.
The irony in this is astounding. Kudos Empress!
uhhhh
Oh Empress, never a dull moment. You could write a few articles on their antics. Safe to say, the piracy scene is alive, kicking and has many interesting characters.
Also, you should check out GTA IV for a game hampered by DRM and salvaged multiple times thanks only to pirates. From its launch in 2008(!) it has taken until 2020 to get an up to date edition on PC without the DRM of long dead launchers and stores. That’s not to say it doesn’t still have DRM, but at least it’s for stores and launchers still in active development.
Initially, GTA IV came with the infamous “Games for Windows Live” requirement. You know, that store that existed before the Windows Store (or Microsoft Store or whatever they’re calling it this week) and the Xbox for PC launcher to boot. A service that Microsoft infamously completely abandoned, sinking all of your purchases with it. I played GTA IV from day one and GfWL was never anything but a pain. Constantly asking you to sign in over and over again. The experience of engaging the multiplayer alone with this service was nightmare fuel.
Then after the abandonment of GfWL, Rockstar simply left it in limbo. Admittedly and admirably, they eventually created the Rockstar Games Social Club. Now, whilst this launcher is thankfully still going today, it is completely unnecessary and simply a way for Rockstar to exert more control over your purchase. Which might not be a terrible thing, considering other stores just disappeared and it’s not like Rockstar are ever going to disappear. Except, GTA IV ran on such an early version of the RGSC that it stayed on that service, barely working as it was in its latter days, rather than being ported over to the new one.
At every point, pirates made workarounds for these stores. Providing dll’s that spoofed their presence to placate the checks in the game. Along with modders, they have truly kept this game alive and working.
Rockstar, for their part, largely seem to have washed their hands of their past games, even going so far as to say that those games exist in an alternate reality where the same events didn’t necessarily happen, at all or in the same way canonically regarding GTA V’s lore. Considering many GTA enthusiasts, myself included, see GTA IV as the height of the series and GTA V a disappointing downgrade (as well as the Online component), it’s particularly galling to see Rockstar retcon, rewrite or completely ignore past events however suits them. After making a game that has basically been abandonware on PC almost since launch, but is nonetheless higher in people’s estimations than the modern borderline offensive rehash that is GTA V.
Personal feelings of GTA V aside, GTA IV was and is a technical marvel. But not without every effort from the community, this veritable museum piece would be unplayable or at least unrecognisable. Even now, after a solid week of research and modding files, I’ve had to come to same conclusion as many. That any version of GTA IV you can currently, or could previously, buy (or pirate) is inferior to the retail DVD with only the first 4 official patches (up to 1.0.4.0) and then the pirate and modder prescribed workarounds. Anything after or aside from that, is a trade off with various forms of DRM, cut content, bundled content, or patches that add as many bugs as they fix.
GTA IV is a testament to just how little we can trust even the biggest of companies, developers, launchers and stores with any game, let alone one so important to the bigger picture and history of the format. Games for Windows Live, to this day, is Microsoft’s dirty little not-so-secret.
As for Rockstar, true to their name, they’ve reached those shameful latter days, after the sun has risen on all the lines of coke and late long nights of crunch, when half the band is no longer even there anymore and, merely a shadow of their former selves, they’ve taken to advertising and shilling some insurance company or adult diapers.
Meanwhile, GTA IV is quite literally being RevIVed by modders that are going through every street and texture with a fine tooth comb remastering and even improving upon what Rockstar themselves achieved. It’s truly a marvel and testament to the games quality, in spite of every effort to erode the experience by the creators.
GTA IV is a prime example of why piracy is entirely necessary, and a pretty good argument for why older games should be open sourced.
Guess I’ll wait for the movie.
Isn’t this exactly the same problem that one Monster Hunter expansion had on PC as well?
The price they must pay for sticking to obsolete console for decades esp Nintendo 3DS
Game svcks anyway.
But I’ll play this version to compare.
Instead they will be rewarded with idiots modding their game, this giving it a longer life span and sending more idiots to spend on the game because of FOMO. Because who wouldn’t want to Mod Mr. X all DAMN DAY LONG!
f*k resident evil where’s the evil within 3 at?
It only works if you have steam installed and running otherwise there’s a bug that will not allow you to get into the start screen. Those of us who don’t have steam installed and won’t for one game can’t play it at this point. Seems totally illogical to have a requirement of a third party official launcher for a cracked game AND not even mention that as a requirement and also to have a steam emulator built in that doesn’t work in that regards. Another alternative denuvo cracker is really needed badly.
It ain’t piracy if you already own the legitimate version. Of course, I wouldn’t be encouraging everyone to go and download the cracked EXE or the full game on the usual venues either. This only goes to show how myopic and misguided DRM is to the end-user.