A few days ago, PureDark issued a new update for his Red Dead Redemption 2 DLSS 3 Mod that added a DRM to it. This DRM requires you to authenticate your license, otherwise, you won’t be able to use it.
At this point, we should note that you only have to authenticate only one time. After your first authentication, the mod won’t ask you to re-authenticate it. Moreover, any account that has subscribed to PureDark’s Patreon will be able to pass the authentication. In other words, you don’t need an active membership. If you have subscribed and then unsubscribed from his Patreon, you’ll still be able to pass the authentication.
PureDark has implemented this DRM in preparation for the upcoming Starfield DLSS 3 Mod. The modder knows that a lot of people will be interested in it, so he’s doing everything to combat its illegal distribution. And what better way to protect a paid mod from piracy? But to add a DRM of course.
Since Starfield will support FSR 2.0, I’m certain that someone will release a “FSR 2 to DLSS 2” mod. After all, we’ve seen such mods in the past (with DLSS 2 even offering better image quality than FSR 2.1). However, I don’t know whether anyone else will be able to release a DLSS 3 Mod for it.
Starfield’s Early Access phase begins on September 1st, so my guess is that its DLSS 3 Mod will be available during its official launch. After all, PureDark will want to capitalize on the huge demand for this DLSS 3 Mod. For what it’s worth, Bethesda claims that the game runs great on all platforms. AMD also claims that it has worked with Bethesda so that the game can take advantage of high-core CPUs.
Lastly, we won’t be using this DLSS 3 Mod for our PC Performance Analysis purposes. We might take a look at it at a later time, but there is nothing certain at this point.
Stay tuned for more!
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I really like this speech I would have inserted the denuvo and increased it to 10 euros per month. this is how you monetize big on PC!
Mods with DRM? Can the PC gaming world get any crazier?
I don’t want to live on this planet any more.
What about mods that have destructive DRM, which deletes all data on a pirate’s hard drive? Because we’ve already seen that in the QuantV graphics mod for GTAV.
Woah! I never heard of that. What’s scary is I googled “QuantV graphics mod for GTAV” and it brings up links and how cool it is.
But when you type in “QuantV graphics mod for GTAV destructive” , u get interesting results for example:
“https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/news-quantv-graphics-mod-gta-5-found-serious-malware#:~:text=The%20popular%20graphics%20mod%20for,erase%20their%20personal%20information%20remotely.”
I remember that dipsh*t Kaldaien also put malware in his Nier Automata mod, not only to crash the game for pirated copies but also targeting specific steam user IDs who argued against him in the steam forums.
You mean the Kaldaien who makes SpecialK? I’ve noticed that he’s a bit of an a*s who doesn’t listen to anyone else. He seems to hate ReShade, and spews lies about it whenever the subject is brought up in his SpecialK Discord. He’s also one of those obnoxious developers who will blame literally anything else for a bug in his software before taking responsibility.
Yeah, that’s the same guy, he’s a grade A c*nt.
Meh, it’s just gaming and people trying to make a buck.
F em. You do want to live on this planet btw. You got no choice. lol
Thanks. I have all of the seasons and movies in my collection except Season 8 which I’m off to buy now. My favorite character Bender has a message to PureDark……
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/944d74328769ab3be7b3be01fb616941ce19ee33f9e66bce76f4922cd4008bfa.jpg
Greedy modderfck*r
Disturbing.
Humanity. The most sickening species on this planet.
Have you ever seen how hyenas hunt and eat their prey? Humans can be pretty nasty, but there are some animals out there that are pretty bad too.
Take a microscope to your pillow case and see if you still feel that way. lol
I hope take two will take it down and sue the owner.
This id really like to see.
John should send Take2 an email and ask them how they feel about this.
A paywall behind a mod get the hell out of here.
PureDark already makes $20k minimum. (not that it’s his fault there’s so many no lifers out there). Same people who fuel Activision. But now he is basically selling the mod. He might aswell set up a Steam page.
How is this legal? Take2 took down great free mods, but they are going to ignore this?
Take 2 was going after free and open source mods, wait until they hear that someone is selling mods for their game, he could’ve picked any other game to release a purchasable mod for, but he picked this one
Can PC Gaming in 2023 get worse? Looks like it can xD
Where’re C* lawyers when they actually needed?
DRM on a unofficial payed mod made by an outsider…
my good Lord what has happened to PC gamers…
If this does not get shut down by take-two or rockstar soon it may be one of their devs doing a side hustle. This is one of those times where “consumer safety” is a valid excuse to do so.
F*k PureDark.
PC gamers are becoming as effing STUPID as console gamers. Holy hell!! DRM behind mods???
I don’t use D(F*G)LSS anyway 😉
Toss a coin to your modder, oh valley of plenty.
Someone please make a free copycat that has all of the same features as his, no DRM, and available source code.
You have my blessing, make the poor nerds rage harder.
I’ll buy his mod as soon as I get home.
Illegal distribution?
Nope ….. It falls under Nvidia’s open source license agreement and it’s completely legal and ethical.
Stealing his work would be illegal and unethical
made by Pure An*s
F* this modder!
Plz DON’T SUPPORT HIM!
Maybe Nvidia shuts the modder since is profiting from modifying their files.
Nvidia gives you permission to use their SDK exactly for this reason. Every gaming company that uses it for free makes money off it too so way rag on this guy?
If this was easy then everyone would just do it themselves but obviously it takes a bit of skill. If this outrages you so much then create a mod like it yourself and give it away for free …..
This will go well.
cs rin ru make piracy great again!
isnt that dude chinesse or something? He better be an ancap.
Greed kills passion. Always.
thats how gaming was killed – the glory days of gaming in the 90’s and begin ’00 are over.
Seasonpasses ( and their matketing ), patreon, microtransactions, payed DLC, etc. have taking over. Some games show even before the game title comes on screen ads to buy the season pass etc…
not press start to play but pay before you press start… – greedy w*nkers…
Mod has been mass reported by people to Nvidia and Rockstar.
Rockstar said they will pass it to legal 😉
i hope they hunt these people down and bring them down.. let their countries also fine them and let them pay for evading taxes with this.
This guy is outta his f*king mind if he thinks people are actually gonna pay him for that.
even tho i’ll be playing the game natively…screw this guy. DRM on a mod. Get bent!
So he puts in the work to make DLSS viable in titles that didn’t include it, with the intent to make money because of demand, and people get bent out of shape that he wants to confirm you paid for it?
“My card only supports 1080p, but I NEED to see 4K on the screen or my mother dies”
This upscaling shït is a disease and you lads are all retärds.
Cheers!
Not one mention of what this mod actually does. Plus we’re expected to authenticate, yeah like thats gonna happen.
Lol this dude is outta his mind.
Mods are supposed to be for the community, built by community. Free was a given. Now not only its a paywall, there is a DRM, this is a new level of low
mods are free, this is worse than only fans
The ONLY reason mods are free is if you sell them then you are in violation of the software license owned by the developer/publisher of the game. In fact any game developer/publisher can completely ban you from modifying their games in any way and while that would be stupid on their part for PR reasons but still it is their legal right as owners of that Intellectual Property.
Got to love the rancid morons on this garbage pile. The modding is his job, and his mods take a lot of time, expertise, and skill to create, not only that he actually actively updates and maintains them.
Scum like all the trash on this site obviously can’t understand that. But maybe you all work for free.
You pathetic pr*cks really are a joke. A bunch of impotent incels circle jerking over nothing because your lives are so empty this is all you have.
I see the “I’m entitled to free stuff” crowd is out in full force ……
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