EMPRESS has cracked Resident Evil 4 Remake, meaning that she was able to successfully bypass the latest version of Denuvo, Denuvo V18.
According to the cracker, Resident Evil 4 Remake used four different DRMs. Alongside Denuvo V18, Capcom has used Denuvo SecureDLC V2, its own Anti-Tamper tech, and VMProtect.
Now as with all cracks, this basically bypasses the aforementioned DRMs. It does not completely remove them, meaning that they are still running in the background. However, the cracked version may have fewer stutters than the retail version. After all, that’s exactly what happened with Resident Evil Village.
Since I’ve finished Resident Evil 4 Remake, I can say that the game only has traversal stutters. These stutters are mainly due to the game streaming data for the next areas. Thus, I believe that the pirated version will also have them. Still, it will be interesting to see a comparison video between them.
As always, we won’t allow links to pirated content. So no, don’t bother sharing any links to it.
It will be interesting to see whether EMPRESS will be able to crack the latest games using Denuvo. Dead Island 2 and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor came after RE4R. Jedi Survivor also uses the EA App, which may be too difficult to bypass. So yeah, I don’t expect this new Star Wars game to be cracked anytime soon.
Stay tuned for more!
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Great news.
With how quick this and Hogwarts Legacy got cracked, I wonder why Empress is the only one doing it.
You’d think some other group would have figured something out by now.
yeah thats sad because like i said above, that only means that this drm will be used more by every company since only one person can crack it.
There was a time when nearly every major PC release came infected with SuckuROM. Now Debongo is made by the same subhumans and it’s becoming the same kind of cancer. Goes to show that simply getting rid of the viruses is not enough, you really need rat poison to stop the spread.
” by the same subhumans”
sixshooter?
They either got paid to work for Denuvo or moved to hacking Cryptocurrency where billions of dollars are stored on exchanges run by clowns.
Other group probably bribed or their member recruited by Denuvo (I think thats the case with one Codex scene member that decided to stop cracking Denuvo in 2017 or 2018).
CODEX never cracked Denuvo so your fairy tail is fake.
Maybe mandella effect but i do remember codex cracking some denuvo titles.
“CRACKED” must be the worse thing said to a Denuvo employee…sorry sir I failed
YOU’RE FIRED!!!!
Fired why? Most games are never cracked so it works, i dont know about you but i dont buy any denuvo game unless its 30 or less, too much money to waste on something that will be unplayable one day and runs like it came from the future, seriously, i need to constantly upgrade to play these games so might as well wait a few years for a price drop and an upgrade. Also the cracked version is not really cracked just emulated, it can still crash with no fix and at some point in the future, you wont be able to play it if you have different hardware, so its not really cracked.
Denuvo is destroying pc versions with their drm.
In the end, cracking AAA game late after they getting patches is better because we will get the version that is way less s*ck in every way compared to buyer of the original.
I don’t think the goal of Denuvo is to make it “uncrackable”, but for it to take long enough so that initial sales are not affected. This game came out 2 months ago, so 90% of sales are already passed.
People who actually want games without Denuvo don’t buy on Steam anyway, they’ll use GoG.
They said it to hide their shame, I believe they at some time claimed as uncrackable, but after many scene able to do it, albeit longer time needed, they change their marketing into buying some times for publisher to reap the reward before eventual crack coming. But hey ,CMIIW…
Then why they always leave Denuvo in a game after it was cracked? I mean, if a game was cracked, just remove it, make your legitimate users day and surprise them with a gesture of gratitude.
But publishers still choose to torture players for no reason. That is pathetic.
And why many of publishers keep the DRM in games a year or even two after the release, like Ubisoft? What is the point? These games never reach GOG, so publishers actually loose money.
They don’t always leave it. Many games eventually have the Denuvo patched out (The Quarry for example). As to why they don’t remove it right away, 1) they already paid for a timeframe to have it so they think they might as well use it anyway, 2) it takes resources to patch it out which they do when they can’t legally keep it after their window is up and if they cared at all about patching it early for consumers’ benefit, they wouldn’t have included it in the first place, 3) future updates and DLC doesn’t automatically become available just because the base game is cracked so they still see value in it to push people towards legitimate copies to get all the content.
Not many, just a few. Capcom and 2K are the only two big publishers, which regularly remove Denuvo from their games after some time, regardless of crack status. Some publishers (like Square Enix and EA) were simply forced to remove Denuvo from their old games (RotTR, SotTR, SWJFO etc.), because Alder Lake CPUs had serious issues with old versions of this DRM (they could not even launch those games).
While Ubisoft and Square Enix keep Denuvo in their games even years after the last DLC was released. Look at AC Odyssey, Far Cry 5, LiS 2 and Just Cause 4, for example.
As concerns future DLCs, they can easily implement Denuvo later. We saw it was possible on the example of Ghostwire: Tokyo.
I didn’t intend many to mean a majority. It was more meant to contrast the wording used in the comment it was responding to of “why they always leave Denuvo in a game after it was cracked.”
Point taken, but it does not change the fact, that games still keep Denuvo after being cracked (usually for quite a long time, regardless of existence of future DLCs).
My point is that if DRM was cracked, it means that it becomes useless, as it does not serve it’s purpose anymore. So Denuvo Company should compensate the expenses of a game publisher for the remaining term of the contract and provide assistance with DRM removal.
Wishful thinking on your part. Some companies like Bethesda will even add denuvo for a game previously denuvo free, just to add an content update. These guys are swimming in cash.
On a sidenote…
From Wikipedia:
Empress is known around the P2P scene for the “personal note” section in the NFOs of her releases, often containing offensive language. The information file supplied with the cracked version of Hogwarts Legacy contained a variety of homophobic and transphobic statements, as well as expressed dissatisfaction with what was described as the “woke system” of today.
So it could be a “she” without quotation marks? Or one that hates the damage done by the overly w0ke ones?
If you read his NFOs, he sounds like a TERF. So basically a woke feminazi with buyer’s remorse about all the tr00n insanity.
i still believe its a troon.
It’s a group of MEN who mask themselves this way.
She is probably just playing character, but all pirates will play along with it as long as she supply them what they need. There is no shame in that … Its just drama …
“empress” is just an alias, it is the same as looking at an female avatar in a MMO and thinking it is being controlled by a female in real life. Based on demographics, the odds are that empress or the user playing as a female avatar are both males.
4 layers of DRM, Yikes! Y’all still buy this foolishness?.. why reward this. Everyone is automatically a criminally. Well I will be pirating this out of Solidarity. Piracy is literally curation at this point. 4 LAYERS? REALLY?.. Ubisoft has 5 layers but damn Capcom, I knew you were terrible but you follow well.
Why? Because it doesn’t impact us? Everyone has been playing the remake just fine without issues. The article misstates the situation that occurred in Resident Evil Village, too, only sowing confusion. This issue does not exist in the Resident Evil 4 Remake and was quickly fixed in Village after Empress raised the issue of Capcom’s custom DRM with the crack.
You say you are going to pirate it but as the article stats the DRM will still be running. I’m uncertain if you’re just a moron or a drama queen. Please enlighten us.
You can’t really tell if it impacts you or not without having played a version without Denuvo to compare it to.
It’s a bit like how websites nowadays are full of Javascript and jQuery bloat. It’s only when you block javascript that you realize how much of a drag it is on website speed.
The issues is clear as day, stutter …
Except no stutter. Don’t be a mindless sheep. Stick to actual facts.
Sheep?? Man, that stutter even mentioned in John article above and in Digital Foundry video, I even experience it first hand, its traversal stutter btw, not shader compilation one.
You mean the one in Village which was shortly fixed and was not traversal but on enemy death or the fly lady? Capcom fixed that issue with their DRM in a few days and there has been no issue since
If you mean Village get a better PC is all I can say. It is you setting the wrong settings and VRAM configuration.
I mean traversal stutter in RE4 Remake, If you read the John article above , he briefly mentioned it. Digital foundry also mention the traversal stutter, its a brief stutter when area loaded in the background, DRM check usually also inserted there. In RE Village case its inserted in every enemy hit, hence why the stutter worse.
They mention traversal stutter but most people don’t have an issue that is visible. This is how loading assets works and if you set your VRAM lower its less of an issue. I’m not going to get into the technicals of why this is but the short is people are over setting their VRAM. Should the engine handle this better? Yes, but then again ray tracing is also totally f*ked up in the game so you have to deal with the constraints of the engine. However, that stutter at proper settings on a decent CPU and SSD/NVME will be like 1-2ms which is simply impossible to see in play. Sure, you might see the blip on a monitoring graph but you wouldn’t know it existed without directly monitoring it. These aren’t stutters. Stutters are visible and due to many reasons like a large change in percentile framerate. This also has absolutely nothing to do with the DRM and is an engine constraint that exists as far back as Resident Evil 2 Remake even without DRM now still going between certain areas like the halls and the big central room in the first major area. In RE Village it wasn’t from hits but on death and was due to capcom’s DRM having an issue with it which Capcom fixed quickly after Empress exposed the root of the issue.
I found the denuvo spokesperson.
There are four DRMs here. Not just Denuvo.
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You’re promoting denuvo though, so you should ask them for a job instead of being a spokesperson for free. I’m just trying to help you out here.
No, I’m saying DRM is fine if it doesn’t cause issues whether it is Denuvo or any other DRM. You’re way to desperate dude. Time to get therapy.
My way to desperate dude is what?
Amazing. I do not know why I’m surprised some anti-DRM snowflake cannot grasp even the most basic first grade reading comprehension and follow a basic trail of discussion. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5464b28e87feb240d32ae475a269ab93787adbff2f0955b3fbbb905956596cc1.jpg
You’re pro-DRM, yet I’m the stupid one.
I am, indeed, pro DRM as long as it isn’t done badly because it means I, as a consumer, actually get to see the developer who makes games I want make more and better games vs developers getting f*ked over and canning entire series and sequels because of piracy and low profits. Yes, you are the stupid one. We get it. You aren’t anti-DRM because it is bad. You are anti-paying and a pirate.
DRM only causes problems for honest people but I see that you didn’t know that which means I’m talking to someone who has no idea what they’re talking about.
Nope, just you angry pirates. Me and the other honest folk don’t give a f*k about DRM being in games and it also means more and better games and content for us consumers. You’re intelligence is just too low to see past your desire driven urges.
Mr. Blaukovitsch, please relogin with you real name!
I’m sorry but you have completely lost me on this random reference. You should probably stick to commonly known celebrities or use better references.
“Because it doesn’t impact us?”
0 self awareness
Sorry. I’m not part of your “group”. I meant “us” in the sense of the greater world and actual patrons, not pirates. Of course it effects you guys.
It affects everyone you idiot.
You paying tribute to your faceless corporate overlords does not make the game magically not stutter with the presence of 4 f*king DRM layers which massively tank performance.
Your tribalism really nails down the kind of stupid you are.
Except the game doesn’t stutter. Everyone has been playing the game just fine moron. Literally the issue you complain about does not f*king exist. Also stop throwing around retarded as phrasing like “massively tank performance” when there is no precedent of any of these listed DRM doing that you f*king clown. The most extreme cases were a 8% performance hit? Wow rip two f*king FPS.
Everyone has been playing the game so fine that the game has mixed reviews out of technical issues alone.
I’m not sure where you got the whole “the game has mixed reviews out of technical issues alone” because it does not.
Steam – Overwhelmingly Positive (both recent and all reviews)
Metacritic PC – 92 Critic / 7.3 user score (0 of the 311 user reviews mention the word stutter, I ctrl + F checked all 4 pages)
I wont check console because they don’t have the DRM to begin with and at least Xbox was reported to have a performance as well as visual downgrade due to a bad patch change, again unrelated to DRM and due to graphical change that was supposed to be a fix.
TL:DR
Why would you pay for this when you can get it free? DRM do cause performance loss and that’s just a f*king fact, I don’t know why you’re defending these billion dollar companies, they are already rich, go throw your 60 bucks at them just so you can act like a c*nt suck to everyone else that didn’t.
Negligible performance loss. I will not notice that 1-2 FPS missing. Sorry to break it to you. Those are actual facts. Now you are promoting piracy because “why pay when you can illegally steal?” argument. Why don’t you try that on jewels, or a bank, or any other thing in real life. No? Why? Because it is f*king illegal dumb a*s and you could just wait and buy it on sale if you are so damn poor and get it when it is so cheap it is borderline free. With all the time you spend no lifing on games you could get a f*king job dude.
You can’t really tell if it impacts you or not without having played a version without Denuvo to compare it to.
It’s a bit like how websites nowadays are full of Javascript and jQuery bloat. It’s only when you block javascript that you realize how much of a drag it is on website speed.
I typically try and give the benefit of the doubt, but it’s clear you’re either just trying to stir up reactions, or you’re an Irdeto a*s licker.
Doesn’t matter to me which you are, as both equally pathetic. Have a good one.
The article is about 4 DRM, not just Denuvo. Your anti-DRM agenda, or should I say clearly anti-Denuvo bias, is quite clear. You never tried to give anyone the benefit of doubt. Caught you red handed. This is why the game sold over 4 million copies so far and people aren’t having any issues with the 4 DRM except you pirates.
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I got locked out of 50 dollar games at launch due to DRM.
DRM is anti consumer trash and so are you.
Just saw your post. No, you didn’t. You had crashes you blamed on DRM incorrectly. Any random a*s crash can trigger a denuvo warning, most commonly scene in Capcom games, despite the issue not being related to Denuvo whatsoever. This is why the most common fixes for this warning is relogging on steam, reboot pc, verifying file integrity or reinstalling game, and updating drivers all of which should have no resolution if denuvo was at fault but work.
Yeah, I wasn’t locked off of Battlefield 2142, a series I mostly played in singleplayer with bots, due to EAs draconic always online DRM and horrible customer service back in 2008.
It was all imaginary, all in my head!
All those people who lost access to their games due to new Intel Processors not being recognized by Denuvo also did not happen!
Thank you for enlightening me!
Except Battlefield 2142 didn’t have DRM, unless you count SafeDisc which only prevented you from duplicate the disc illegally and didn’t block you from playing the game with a legitimate copy.
Yes, it is all in your head.
The Intel E-core issue was due to Intel’s side and has already been fixed. This was because of the hardware and software design and wasn’t causing issues for only DRM but countless software that needed patches and proper Windows support to address it.
Last, just because a dev did a bad job with DRM x number of years ago, or in your case you are referring to freaking 2008, doesn’t mean DRM is bad in general or that devs haven’t become more competent 15 years later. Stop being a drama queen.
You are welcome for the enlightenment.
“The game requires a GameSpy connection to create even offline profiles. ”
The game entered a loop where it didn’t recognize the email tied to the profile and I couldn’t change it at all
Peopleto this day are having issue with the EA App and their customer service.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Battlefield_2142
I didn’t read the rest, you’re unhinged in defending a flimsy corporate excuse to shaft its’s userbase, you are a drone.
GameSpy isn’t DRM though. This is simply how their backend was programmed because developing a more robust system cost resources they weren’t willing to invest.
Since it went down there are two fixes to the issue.
The official solution also supports multiplayer and completely replaces Gamespy via GameRanger see EA’s info https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-Battlefield-Games/Battlefield-Online-Shutdown-of-GameSpy-hosted-EA-titles/m-p/3142382#U3142382
The other solution is to simply bypass it via a fix from the wiki but this only allows single player play.
You didn’t read the rest because you have an ignorant agenda to push and you can’t stand being wrong and not being able to dispute the points raised so you throw a fit despite still being perpetually wrong. I get it. Even now you can’t get your facts straight.
Gamespy isn’t the issue you slimy f*k, the issue is the always online connectivity
Didn’t read the rest, f*koff drone
Oh dear, a f*king online game having online requirement for a franchise that has always been online/lan for every f*king game ever released and never had a single player campaign, EVER. Gee, just what the f*k could they possibly be thinking by programming it in an easier way than a more robust system for something their game isn’t f*king designed for? The fact is it requires online connectivity because it isn’t a F*KING ISSUE unless you are pirating. It isn’t and has never been an issue and they even have a fix to continue playing it after the GameSpy shut down. The only exception is a sorry f*k like yourself who is ranting on a thread about piracy because you can’t illegally pirate it you f*king monkey. Its no wonder you ignore the rest of my post you incompetent piece of useless sh*t. Pathetic. I’m done wasting time on you and your ironically ill-alotted username. heh
Why? Because it doesn’t impact us? Everyone has been playing the remake just fine without issues. The article misstates the situation that occurred in Resident Evil Village, too, only sowing confusion. This issue does not exist in the Resident Evil 4 Remake and was quickly fixed in Village after Empress raised the issue of Capcom’s custom DRM with the crack.
You say you are going to pirate it but as the article stats the DRM will still be running. I’m uncertain if you’re just a moron or a drama queen. Please enlighten us.
talk for yourself, 5 drms hurt everyone and its only gonna get worse.
Said less than 1% of the player base as everyone has played the games without issue. When you say to speak for yourself please don’t be a hypocrite.
“without issue”
works cited= drugs
You know damn well that drm hurts performance but you’d rather defend its use and talk down to anyone that doesn’t like the needless performance hit. You should apply for a job as a denuvo spokesperson instead of doing it for free like you are now.
“It” is passionate about its enslaver!
I’m sorry. I’ve beaten the game 7 times without any issues since release. Others have also beaten the game many times and there has been no great outcry of the game’s performance aside from some random folks getting a scope lag glitch though only a tiny minority and unrelated at all to DRM but a view rendering driver issue.
You wouldn’t know though since you just pirate and steal sh*t and are pissed that DRM exists to begin with. I wasn’t even talking about Denuvo specifically. This article is about 4 DRm but we get it. You f’ing loathe Denuvo because it stops you from being a thief for a period and in recent years most Denuvo games never even get cracked.
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7 times? So you have no life lol?
You realize the game takes typically 2-4 hours to beat right? The game came out approximately 2 months ago. I have a total of 37 hours in the game which is less than many game’s single playthrough. Are you perhaps one of those legendary mythical morons?
There’s one little point (amongst many others it seems) you’re missing. In a DENUVO pirated game, it is indeed still there, but the user didn’t pay for it, as the sheep did.
If you need, I can draw it for you.
Buying a game makes you a sheep? You don’t even know how to use a damn slang insult correctly and think being a thief is being a rebel. Are you an idiot or something?
I’m not the one RENTING games for $70. There’s your answer!
^^
You don’t know how software laws work its clear. Even if a game has no DRM you don’t own any game. You never legally have. You own a license to play it. You also are apparently ignorant of how Denuvo works to no one’s surprise. Denuvo has a license that expires so a game will never permanently have Denuvo. This was a change they made a few years ago with their implementation which is why you haven’t seen any modern game in the last few years retain Denuvo past 1-2 years typically as it legally must be removed if they don’t renew the license which costs money.
If you’re so high and mighty and a good person because you can afford to spend 60 dollars on every game you want to f*kin play, then why are you still a giant do**hebag. F*king sad sh*t.
Buy it on sale or don’t play it then. I can’t believe you are using the argument of being a cheap a*s to pirate while simultaneously saying someone else has no life because they played a game for a few hours but you play so many f*king games you literally cannot afford them all. F*king ironic.
And the funny thing is that the game still got cracked fairly quickly.
So much crappy drm only hurts legitimate buyers.drm is cancer man.
Remained Uncracked Games =
The Calisto Protocol
Dead Space Remake
Dead Island 2
Need For Speed Unbound
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
RedFall
Warhammer 40000 Darktide
Company of Heroes 3
Forspoken
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
FIFA 23
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There’s maybe only one game on that list I’d play even if they were all free!
Which one?
Dead Space Remake… and even then I’m not particularly fussed whether I play it or not.
Yeah, at the end of the day, it’s just an remake with better graphics and features but worse aesthetics (le SJW pandering).
Because that is the only thing they can do, make a doodle in a game. They are just there to fullfill company ESG and not because of their skill that their lack of…
You’re not missing anything. It’s a solid game, but if you played the original, I wouldn’t bother.
I stopped playing after seeing the new zero-G section and never touched it again.
there are ten times as many
atomic heart
sniper elite 5
kaku ancient seal
starlink battle for atlas
Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster
judgement
lost judgement
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Edge of Nowhere
Damaged Core
Eagle Flight
Robinson: The Journey
Fe
Bus Simulator 18
Burnout Paradise: Remastered
The Quiet Man
two point campus
the quarry
f1 22
monster hunter rise
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Complete Edition
dirt 5
star wars squadron
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 and 2
Total War Saga: Troy
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
sonic frontiers
Unravel 2
hi fi rush
and many others i cant remember right now, also it gets worse.
On August 24th, 2022, it was announced that Denuvo had developed “Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection”, a new digital rights management solution for Nintendo Switch titles which aims to allow developers to block play via emulators such as Yuzu
F1 22 have denuvoless version leaked sometimes ago.
Dirt 5 MSStore version are able to be circumvented so its playable offline without DLC,
Star Wars Squadron given away by Epic smetimes ago,
Monster hunter rise is already cracked,
the quarry publisher removed the DRM
For Burnout paradise and Sonic frontiers, Switch version is there as alternative playable in Yuzu and Ryujinx. And the original Burnout Paradise PC Version still beautiful as always, so nothing loss without the remastered version …
the list is much longer.
Bro, both Unravel 2 and Monster Hunter Rise were cracked.
Atomic heart has that leaked dev build which is the entire game that you can play, without the final touches of the retail build.
The Quarry was cracked when they removed Denuvo.
yeah you are right, but is the leaked build of atomic heart even playable? Isnt it full of game stopping bugs?
I finished the game. It doesn’t show objective markers properly sometimes and very few times, buttons could not be pressed – however, that was easily overcome by loading a previous save (the game does autosave as well if you don’t manual save). It also runs flawlessly.
still waiting on those judgement games to get cracked.
There is new clue in her recent NFO about the next game she will cr*cked “Third time is the charm …” I think that refer to Company of Heroes 3
She would never waste time cracking a game like that.
That’s a lot of garbage
I wouldn’t play forspoken or redfall if i was paid for it
Forspoken isn’t bad IF you like Ubisoft style games. For the crowd that does it is basically just a massive, because the game is stupid big and imo a bit pointless for the sheer amount of damn space in it, sandbox of repetitive collectibles. The environments are very pretty, admittedly, and the story isn’t bad once you get beyond the initial cringe in the first hour or so but it isn’t anything special either.
Combat is solid but juggling the four magic types is a bit of a nuance and a ton of the spells feel like filler. The starting Earth class is also disgustingly overpowered displaying the other three elements though much for the community doesn’t realize this and is drawn to the flashy fire and other two elements. It also has some very bad padding in optional questlines and minor dialogue ranges from quite solid to very cringe as the cuff and Freya repeatedly spam the same dialogue in a given area because areas are so massive you’re going to here it thousands of times before getting to a new area and new dialogue.
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else though, unless you are desperate for something to play and want to skip through everything and focus on just the main story. Even then I’d look for something else to play tbh.
I’m only tangentially interested in the first 3 games.
From this list, I own Calisto Protocol and Dead Space Remake.
Calisto Protocol – it’s ok. Played it, finished it and then uninstalled it. It ran like crap when it came out, the patches did help improve performance, but ray tracing still runs like balls. They added New Game+ mode in February I think, but I wouldn’t even bother with a replay. It’s a pretty average game so you are not really missing out on anything. Overall, the game was disappointing considering all the hype.
Dead Space Remake – nicely made remake of the original, but that’s really all that it is. Still a good game and also uninstalled it when I finished the game.
Version 18? that means they failed 18 times?
yep … And publisher will still buy their BS … Even bethesda, microsoft should have been told them not to continue using Denuvo anymore.
Depends on your definition of a failed state. Denuvo is still quite sucessful in selling their DRM to publishers.
Resident Evil 4 layers of DRM
I pay my games ……… but i want to play them without these f***g DRM B##S## ……. without an active internet connexion ……………
My Money = My Game = My Connexion
What you want is no concern for publishers.
They just want your money, is all.
that is very true but don’t forget that you don’t own the game, you just buy the license to play them :/
When I buy a game DRM-Free I own it. Speak for yourself. I own every single Fuqing game on GOG. The only people that doesn’t own their games are the SteamWhxres and launcher fanatics.
You don’t own any game on GOG, just read the LICENSE you agreed to …… You own a license to use their code, nothing more ….
So if GOG ever revokes the license, a buff rabbi is going to show up at his house to delete the installers from his hard drive.
It’s true, I’m the rabbi.
He just didnt own the code, the IP and the resources needed to make the game, but he definitely own the specific copy he purchase in GoG.
i don’t know who pissed in your coffee, but nobody talked about drm free games. Ofc you can back it up the installers, its pretty much the same reason why piracy goes so strong nowdays; that and the fact they put those sh**ty anti tampers. But you also need to keep in mind that a lot of games don’t release on GOG. So to each their own.
These fools keep buying this crap and when you talk against it, their favorite comeback is “you don’t own any game”. That is one of the dumbest foolishness I’ve ever heard. I buy a game on GOG/DRM-FREE, it’s on my HDD backed up, WHO THE FUQ IS GONNA STOP ME from using you?. I tell you man, sometimes I think I’m gonna lose my sanity trying to reason with these types of people. “Read the eula, you’ll see you don’t own it”… They believe any fear mongering tactic they read. The worse part is, they can’t even comprehend what they read properly. Just run around repeat the same rubbish.
“Capcom has used Denuvo SecureDLC V2, its own Anti-Tamper tech, and VMProtect.”
Imagine how many drms jedi survivor has, then we wonder why games run worse than getting emulated.
Edit, I googled the nfo just to see the insane unhinged schizo rants from empress, was not disappointed.
Nah, don’t worry about that because acording to Denuvo defenders it has no performance impact. Denuvo is a unique magical code unlike any other that has no processing cost.
I wish that Denuvo did something to the Nintendo Switch, it would be hilarious. Games barely run at 30fps as is.
“Denuvo is a unique magical code unlike any other that has no processing cost.”
Right? ? It’s really not a tough nut to crack.
thousands of server checks per second can cause lag, but millions of drm checks per second do not, its like magic, denuvo is made by god you see.
God is dead, apparently.
and we killed him.
muhammad jihad
true
They are counting on rich people with ton of cpu power to spare. You can see true cost of denuvo when you are cpu limited
Depending on the game and how it’s authored, it effectively can. Denuvo runs on the CPU, and in heavily GPU bound titles the CPU is essentially idle most of the time, waiting for its next task. As long as Denuvo can always finish it’s checks within that idle period, or if it’s running on a completely separate thread from any game logic, then it shouldn’t impact performance. The more CPU bound a title is, or the more background processes are left open consuming spare CPU cycles (such as browser windows or Discord), then the more Denuvo can and will interfere with performance.
CPY’s Assassins Creed Origins proved just how bad it was on performance.
Let’s not forget Valhalla..
UBI slaps layers upon layer typically, wm protect have been utilized more than once beside denuvo.
So both decryption AND virtualization are zapping the performance that could have been used for the game. Not hard to add 1+1 with how it ends up…
The rants are probably there for an insanity plea if they are ever caught and prosecuted. Of course in the US our terrorist alphabet agencies who really work for the banks and the media they all own through Blackrock/Vanguard would pump them full of drugs, get confessions and they would get Epsteined. Never ever come to the US Empress lol.
russian so they are safe.
Both Russia and US are the police states, Russia is worse, but you can enjoy Russian pirate sea.
EMPRESS is an autistic man. Only the power of autism could crack Denuvo. There’s never been a female computer game cracker going all the way back to the C64 and Apple ][e.
Bingo, his insane persona is just to confuse the chosenites trying to track him down.
Yeah, it’s just internet culture of being polite and treating people just because they call themselves a female sounding name. But him being autistic might sugest he is trans or some bs like that.
Nice post. I learn something totally new and challenging on websites
The traversal stutter you mentioned are gone or probably way less from my experience. I remember playing the Steam version and before entering the first door when Leon still on the porch it will usually stutter a bit, that is practically gone in empress version.
Denuvo is more like a Pimp who is only job to make sure that you paid the wh*re that you’ve just ##############!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://media3.giphy.com/media/3o6Zt8TIAy2dMFuwne/giphy.gif
DRM – Digital RENTAL Media. And you thought you owned it. HA HA HA
I’m glad to hear that people are still able to crack newer versions of copy protection. Granted the hope that continued piracy would stop game developers from using DRM altogether ended up being a pipe dream. The fact that they used 4 different DRM solutions in the game seems to prove that if companies can’t rely on one DRM, they’ll just keep adding more and more of them until no one is able to bypass them.
The only thing they are protecting are the pockets of these DRM companies from ever going broke. They are literally throwing away money. Thus giving these people a free lunch.
A very expensive free lunch at that.
“Granted the hope that continued piracy would stop game developers from using DRM altogether ended up being a pipe dream.”
That was never the case, unless the pirates develop a super technology to pirate day one and provide updates, but it will always be an arms race and pirates are understaffed and underfunded. Piracy could stop if people just stopped buying games with DRM, but that might be even more of a pipe dream lmao.
Back in the day game cracks would usually come out day one, and you could download the pirated version of the game not long after everyone who preordered was downloading from Steam or bringing their game disks home from the store.
Yeah but that just shows that the demand for an effective DRM was in place. They woudn’t just give up on a profitable demand.
Even if DRM didn’t work, I think we’re at the point where it’s obvious it wouldn’t stop them. I mean, if they can just layer multiple DRM’s on top of each other in the same game to slow down the rate at which games can be cracked, then I think they’re just going to keep blowing money on them.
That’s the plan, basically. Just keep blowing money on DRM to have a slight edge on pirates or whatever.
Why would piracy stop DRM when DRM exists to stop piracy? This is especially true when the overwhelming majority of Denuvo protected games, in particular, are never cracked now day sand most crackers have given up cracking Denuvo. The main goal is to protect its early sales which the four combined DRMs did for the 1st month granting it over 4 million sales. Really, its 3 DRM as the DLC protection DRM isn’t being used and isn’t going to be cracked when the new DLC comes out eventually with Ada which I assume is delayed because her voice acting sucks and they’re redoing it.
Once upon a time people assumed that zero-day cracks would eventually lead to the death of DRM. My comment was along the line of how it’s obvious now that this wasn’t a realistic expectation, and now it’s fairly clear that instead of game devs abandoning DRM in frustration they’re just doubling down on DRM and adding multiple different types to the same game to slow down cracking their games.
As for games that have never been cracked, keep in mind that there’s a ton of games with online-only gameplay these days, which is probably one of the ways game publishers and studios hoped to completely eliminate piracy altogether since you can’t just crack a game that’s online-only.
Very true on both points.
There will be a point when all of that DRM eats up resources more than the game itself if thats the case , at that point I believe customer backlash will be greater
Based Empress, Denuvo are nothing but parasitic malware to violate your consumer rights.
Good. F*k DRM!
hocam gayet aç?klay?c? bir yaz? olmu? elinize eme?inize sa?l?k.
Even with the cracked copy it crashes when i try to mod it (DLSS2 mod) Thats how locked down and anti-consumer denuvo is. Either way its a win i get to play it finally, empress is goat!
There are several reasons beside Denuvo for a DLSS hack not to work …. That’s why pretty much every time a new game with official DLSS2 comes out a new version of DLSS2 is released by Nvidia ….. Some games have TAA baked in and if you can’t disable TAA or other form of AA then DLSS2 will not work. Most of the games that work with the DLSS mod already have FSR2 so the code is already there to turn off TAA because FSR2 works the same way. It’s not an additional AA it is a REPLACEMENT AA
Well how is that! is this the latest version or old?
Probably the latest, but don’t expect future updates from the cracked version.
Next Resident Evil game might have 10 layers of DRM, and it will still get cracked! lol
Yeah all while the paying customers get a slideshow for their money… and then they wonder why the trend of reducing piracy have taken a turn for the worse
All that has really been accomplished here will be making DRM’s even more intrusive … Next time instead of 4 they will use 5 or 6
DRM will not go away until people stop stealing, it’s as simple and Common Sense as that
4 layers of drm?
So if we are treated like criminals we should act like it, i’ll never buy that game.
Damn, RE4 remake is pretty good. I’m on Chapter 6 at the moment, playing on hardcore mode, I like how challenging the enemies are and they really keep you on your toes. You basically need to avoid getting hit as far as possible, but there are enough healing items in case you do take damage. The bosses actually aren’t too difficult, but it’s the pesky villagers – they just come in numbers.
After this whole multiple DRM issue, I won’t be buying any more Capcom titles in future, unless they release the games without all this trashy DRM’s.
I think you underestimate Empress with the last statement. Will see.