As we’ve already reported, a “games cracking” group was able to completely remove Denuvo and VMProtect from Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Therefore, we’ve decided to test the UPLAY and the pirated versions in order to see whether these DRMs have any negative effect on the game’s performance.
For these tests, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz. Naturally, we’ve paired this machine with an NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti. We also used Windows 10 64-bit and the GeForce 441.41 driver.
Since Assassin’s Creed: Origins comes with a built-in benchmark, we’ve decided to use that for our tests. Furthermore, and in order to put more stress on the CPU, we’ve lowered our resolution to 1280×720. We kept using the game’s Ultra High settings as some of them affected both the GPU and the CPU.
As we reported back in 2017, Assassin’s Creed: Origins suffers from major stuttering issues on quad-core CPUs (especially if your CPU does not support Hyper Threading). And as we discovered today, Ubisoft has not reduced them. Now what’s really interesting here is that the pirated version had less stutters. Do note that both of these versions had LONG stuttering issues (we’re talking about stutters that last 3-4 seconds) and made the game unplayable. Still, the pirated version had significantly less stutters; there were some but they were not as frequent as those found in the UPLAY version. Moreover, and as with most games that do not use Denuvo, the pirated version of Assassin’s Creed: Origins loads faster.
Framerate wise, we did not experience any differences between these two versions. What this means is that Denuvo and VMProtect do not bring a framerate hit in Assassin’s Creed Origins.
This comparison was quite interesting to be honest. While the minimum and average framerates are similar, the pirated version actually felt better. This was mainly due to the less stutters we’ve experienced, alongside the faster loading times. We were able to replicate these awful stuttering issues multiple times on the UPLAY version, so we can safely say that the pirated version runs better on specific systems. It’s also worth noting that these stuttering issues were completely eliminated on our simulated six-core and our eight-core CPUs the moment we enabled Hyper Threading.
Below you can find the frametime graphs for our simulated quad-core benchmarks. On the left we have the Denuvo+VMProtect version and on the right the pirated version. As you can clearly see, there are less stutters in the pirated version.
In conclusion, even if Ubisoft removes Denuvo and VMProtect from AC:O, you won’t receive any framerate boost. What you will get, however, is faster loading times and less stuttering. Those that will greatly benefit from such a thing are owners of weaker PC systems. On the other hand, owners of high-end CPUs will not see any performance difference at all.
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“the pirated version actually felt better”
Pirated version –
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Denuvo version –
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when do we get to yeeha?
for a meme the denuvo cosplay wins ^^
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johnny boy pirating a video game you b**tard!:)
With all do respect, this is BAD test! If you wanted to test real denuvo impact, you should get some potato dual/quad core and test it on low settings! This way its just another showoff what can i$$00k and 2080ti can do
max payne 3 ran pretty fine with denuvo, pirates on dsog just want an excuse to pirate games.
Denuvo did not even exist when Max Payne 3 was released.
Was MP 3 that long ago lol. I wonder if there ever will be MP4.
it did and actually tests showed that max payne 3 ran faster with denuvo compared to no drm version which was provided by rockstar to a few tech websites.
You’re a Fuqing Moran. .. just when I thought it was safe to respect you. SmH
i’m starting to think that you have some loose screws.
nice lie
not my fault you guys don’t do your research.
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nice troll and lier
if i’m trolling then why do you take my bait voluntarily and go to such extent to prove me wrong?
regardless, the picture you provided has no credibility. i’m the person who personally implemented denuvo in max payne 3, you can’t tell me you know more about this than me.
obvious troll
yet you reply. you’re just accusing me of trolling because you disagree with me even though deep down you know i tell the truth.
F*cking hell man!!
What’s your target “audience” to troll? Literal Down Syndrome people ffs! Put some effort man.
Man… You sums it up best. He thinks he’s trolling but no one is laughing or taking the bait. Which makes it more disrespectful then trolling.
Less stutters is absolutely a huge plus.
Frametime inconsistency is one of the worst issues a game’s performance can face and makes the end user experience a real pain, even at 60fps.
Color me shocked!
Less Stuttering and Faster loading times more than enough reason to NOT pay for this game until they remove it. Also it would have been nice to see the FrameTimes for this one.
Yet there is still people that deny DENUVO has a performance penalty on games, the
Money-To-Burn-4k/60-240Hz-Or-GTFO-Master-Race-Upgrade-your-papato-Scrub kind of people.
Off-topic:
The wonderful Skyrim mod Complete Crafting Overhaul has at long last been officially ported to Skyrim Special Edition.
nexusmods(dot)com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/28608
i gave you the first dislike of my life for being shameless and desperate to get some attention.
Pot, meet kettle.
I wish you guys could see how great i am. i am rich, gorgeous and smart but you poor idiots confront me all the time. it’s been the way of royalty vs peasantry for centuries, you hate us because you ain’t us.
Cool but your benchmarks make no sense whatsoever.
He didnt learn until now he needs to do 3-4 tests before the real test and he calls himself a tester.
Second test (cracked version) was made from cache and of course are less sttutering. https://media3.giphy.com/media/10ZpFHGQczijeM/giphy.gif
Yep, awful testing.
not to mention he used 720p for some reason 🙂 that ancient, flawed methodology for cpu testing that has no real world applications. Lowering the resolution and settings was used like 20 years ago in benchmark sites for isolating the cpu and noticing the differences.
But in the year of our lord 2019 this type of testing is like a useless syntethic benchmark. Nobody is gonna play at that resolution, i mean literally nobody therefore this is a result that has no real world application.
“Framerate wise, we did not experience any differences between these two versions. What this means is that Denuvo and VMProtect do not bring a framerate hit in Assassin’s Creed Origins.
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if you got to higher resolutions you will get better framerate on the pirated version
idk who is lying, many people did comparasion on reddit and there were no big differences between them, this means i need to do the test myself and see if you lie or not and i think the rest of readers must to the same.
Those people tested properly, this test is useless. His second test is probably using the cache, which will improve performance. He also doesn’t take several tests and average the scores.
yeeha simulator 2019 when?
“. As you can clearly see, there are less stutters in the pirated version.”
CLAP…CLAP…..CLAP….CLAP…WELL DONE UBISOFT…..HEY I KNOW LETS PUT DENUVO PLUS VMPROTECT PLUS ALWAYS ONLINE PLUS ONLINE SHOP FOR MICROTRANSACTIONS AND USE AN OLD UNOPTIMIZED ENGINE…THAT WILL TEACH THEM TO BUY OUR SH!TTY GAMES.
THIS…..FCKING….INDUSTRY…man!!!
It’s only because of the like of people in this thread that they do it. They’re all gloating about pirating it, if nobody did that, they wouldn’t need to add all this crap.
I know right?.. If people would just work hard for free, don’t expect anything in return we would never have to enslave anyone in the past/present. <---- See, justifying Garbage is Easy. Just throw up some words all over the internet and BAM!!! Winner.
why should people be paid for their work? Everything should be free we should have communism. HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT…even thought you need someone to do labor for you to get wellfare.
Haha, my Partner In Logic. Bravo man ?
durka durka is a secret jew.
nonsense there are a ton of games that have come out the last few years that had no protection and sold amazingly well and tons of always online games that flopped.
listen to this f*king shill. shill harder man.
People are just desperate to have a reason/excuse for why they pirate LOL
Less Stuttering and Faster loading times more than enough reason to NOT pay for this game until they remove it. Also it would have been nice to see the FrameTimes for this one.
Yet there is still people that deny DENUVO has a performance penalty on games, the
Money-To-Burn-4k/60-240Hz-Or-GTFO-Master-Race-Upgrade-your-papato-Scrub kind of people.
I doubt denuvo doesnt inpact CPU performance, its been shown countless times that it does effect performance, origins already is a garbage port but denuvo added another layer to that .
I’m so sick of this Schitt, why do people keep talking about Denuvo’ impact on HOW games RUN, when that should be the least of our God Damn Concerns?.. why do gamers keep entertaining this washed up/water down narrative when that is getting us nowhere. This is the type of rubbish I can’t stand. I don’t give a flying Fuq about how Denuvo hinker a games performance. What we should be concerning ourselves with much more pressing issues on DRM.
Wanna know what to concern yourselves with and shut the fuq up about “Denuvo’ DRM in games”? Look no further than what just happened to A 9 year old game called TRON. YOU STUPID DUMP FUQS. Further more why is Denuvo or any DRM still in a game after it’s been cracked for 5+ years. A game like Rise Of The Tomb Raider, who is the DRM protecting the game from after it’s been cracked 6 ways come Sunday. Having to phone home every god damn week in a game that has been cracked. Who exactly is this game being protected from, the ACTUAL PAYING CUSTOMER? These are the issues that DRM conversations should be about. But for some FUQING reason y’all have managed to shift the narrative to, “Why isn’t a Denuvo protected game running on my schitty aZZ toaster”. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS. Because you idiots are always busy running the wrong God Damn Race.
I don’t know why this is the narrative, when there is a proper well CONCERNED narrative right in front of us, about an extremely AGGRESSIVE DRM that needs to phone home every week and if that server goes down which it has MANY TIMES BEFORE; or you happens to lose connection and not boot up that game for a week, you are FRESH OUT OF LUCK. Fresh out of luck in playing your HONESTLY BOUGHT SINGLE PLAYER FUQIN GAME. You people are so Dumb!!! Yes let’s have a constant debate about whether or not Denuvo affects performance of a game, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING MORE PRESSING TO TALK ABOUT, when it comes to DRM, RIGHT?!!!
People are just desperate to have an excuse to pirate games. Ohhh because the drm brought performance down. boo hooo lol
You said it man…
Now lets got and shop for 2080Ti to eliminate stuttering, yeah !!!
Haha, 100 thanks. You have the best idea when it comes to dealing with that idiot. ???
are you the dude who makes those hot rule34 animated pics?
no, I’m the other dude 🙂
🙁
i can confirm on 7700k and RTX 2070 Super game its running with well over 70 FPS 1440p and its silky smooth
do you know what statistical significance is?
Intentionally running Denuvo version first and then not rebooting so game files are cached = “test” is disengenuous bullshit trying to fit your narrative.
I’d prefer no denuvo in my games, but not having to the confidence to “test” without sticking your thumb on the scale makes you and your site a joke.
Indeed.
Not that big of a difference really, the chart shows me foremost AC loves more cores and is unplayable on 4 cores, even 6c got those hilarious framedrops…8c+ it looks just fine and the difference pirated to legal is one frame… come one that one frame could be even within error margin.
How much faster was the loading?
Im always dreaming game companies get a grip, release with drm ok but they should remove it after like half a year or a year when most sale is done.
Or no drm at all like cdpr on witcher 3 and cyberpunk, or any gog game?
Amazing.
Five days ago a bunch of shills (even linking another shill on f*king crackwatch of all places for f*k’s sake) tried to say that the denuvo version didn’t had stutters, it’s amazing how much of a stockholm syndrome some people have.