Capcom has just removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster came out on September 19th, 2024, meaning that it took Capcom almost a year to take it out.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster uses the RE Engine, and I found it to be a great remaster. The game runs great on PC, and it does not require a high-end PC system to be enjoyed. Capcom did make some changes to it, something that may put off some Dead Rising purists. Still, this remaster was miles better than what we got with Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP.
The removal of Denuvo does not really come as a surprise. After all, Capcom has removed it from numerous games. Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, and Resident Evil Village no longer have it. Similarly, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 3 Remake no longer use it. In July 2025, the team also removed it from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess.
Square Enix is another publisher that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its titles. For instance, the publisher has removed it from games like The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, LIVE A LIVE, and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it. And, in May 2024, SE removed it from Star Ocean The Second Story R. Finally, in March 2025, the publisher removed it from Final Fantasy 16.
As we’ve reported, other companies have also removed Denuvo from several of their titles. In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P. In October 2024, Gearbox removed it from Homeworld 3, too.
And that’s not all. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Doom Eternal no longer have it. Warner Bros has also removed it from Mortal Kombat 11. Then we have Bandai Namco, which has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER.
So there you have it. Another game that is no longer using Denuvo. Like I’ve said before, this is the best way for publishers to use this anti-tamper tech. If they remove it later and it doesn’t cause problems while it’s in, I don’t really have a reason to complain.
A bad implementation of Denuvo could introduce some stutters. Nowadays, though, most games that use it are not plagued by performance issues. Take, for example, Stellar Blade, which runs great. Or Doom: The Dark Ages. Both of them use Denuvo, and both of them run great on PC. Doom: The Dark Ages, in particular, does not have any stutters AT ALL.
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Gotta thank Denuvo devs for milking these companies with their SaaS (spyware as a service). Good things happen to those who wait.
It is yet another (((demasturd))) that nobody even asked for in the first place. They not only butchered Frank's likeness and made him some unlikable buffoon that nobody even wants to look at, they also censored what was in the original.
The original is still being sold on Steam + current and last gen consoles' storefronts anyway so why make this POS that literally nobody on the face of the earth even asked for in the first place?
Oh wait, that's right; because these creatively bankrupt, man-hating and pink-haired tranny Satanists literally can't think of any good idea to occupy the brain dead goyim and keep them busy to distract them from the fact that these infantophilic terrorist Joo subhumans are on their way to genocide the human race so they basically leech on and subvert the successes of the past that existed even before their ugly, ghoulish, Jewess lesbian tranny whore "mothers" aborted them.
I guess it’s true, but i was never a fan of this series aniway. Maybe there are mods that restore some aspects of the original.
Just play the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9qJn10G3GM
I was just saying maybe there’s a mod that restore those aspects from the original. I’m probably not doing it since i was never into this franchise despite me liking the genre.
Are you blind?
The changes are so big you can’t restore them outside of powerful mod tools.
I'm not saying to restore every bit of texture to the original version, that would defeat the purpose of playing the remaster. But a mod that changes the skin of an NPC and/or the player don't require powerful mod tools, and an engine like RE can easily accomodate such a task.
Son, they replaced whole models, it’s impossible without the tools.
Reminder they recently took down the original release of DMC4 for the bonkers release of DMC4SE, it's next on the chopping block.
Yeah, usually fixed games, better performance and at lower prices to boot!
not resident evil 4 though which is older, meaning this remaster did not sell.
Resident Evil is a slightly bigger name than Dead Rising, fam.
Whoever typed up this article is clueless. Studios don't remove Denuvo. They pay a one time fee to have Denuvo for a set amount of time.
Your daddy forgot to teach you what a same difference is.
guess buys the we are never removing denuvo from our games.
"Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster uses the RE Engine, and I found it to be a great remaster. The game runs great on PC"
Sorry, but you're in the minority here. The game has a stuttering problem and many Steam reviews (and posts on the Steam forum) confirm this.
Ran perfectly from start to finish for me. Don't blame the game for your potato PC.
With the "Paradise Twist" texture pack, the original game looks 10 TIMES better than the remasturd.
Still, maybe I'll give a chance to the pirated version on csrinru, just to check how improved the AI is.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b27081666bc1b5260a6ddc2f1a840392047144fcb9cf6cfda7257b8bd9a5e25c.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e7d6b45411cc99df9e75fc718ae6cc108d40ce998ab2e5fbed8b6244fca99b5.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b80191d2de244de2c422782f5dca50f6a74b7089d3a4705f560e933bc3c3a8d7.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6266a4ae457e79df846030cf2776e05aa901ed09d8033078b778776ba9aaac9.jpg
Nice to see as always. Appreciate the update John
The Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection still has Enigma DRM despite being out for over 3 years and despite the shift on mod policy where DMCV modding is still halal and kosher.
Capcom hates Mega Man? ❌ Not entirely.
Capcom hates Inti Creates? ✅ Precisely.
Now it would be nice if they would bother to bring the raytracing update from PS5 to PC.
It's cràp and censored anyways, original is much better.
This is the censored version of the game and have some downgraded visuals compared to the original from billion years ago. play the original, not this crap.