YouTube’s ‘Overlord Gaming’ has tested some more games with and without the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Overlord Gaming used six games for which the developers have removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech themselves, and used the same graphics drivers. As such, this comparison is as good as it can possibly get, though it should be noted that some games may saw a small performance increase due to additional optimization tweaks included in their patches that removed Denuvo.
Going into more details, Overlord Gaming tested Dishonored 2, Lords of the Fallen, Bulletstorm, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Moto Racer 4, RiME and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Unsurprisingly, all of the aforementioned games loaded faster when Denuvo was removed.
At this point, I should note that EIDOS Montreal and Nixxes have not removed Denuvo from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Overlord Gaming used a crack that, contrary to other cracks that simply bypass it, has completely removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from the game.
As said, all of these games loaded faster when Denuvo was removed, something that did not really surprise us. After all, this is the biggest issue with Denuvo right now (the slower loading times).
Overlord Gaming also claimed that all of these games performed faster when Denuvo was removed, and that the Denuvo-powered versions suffered from some stutters that were absent the moment this anti-tamper tech was removed. This basically means that you may get a smoother gaming experience even if your average framerate is the same in a game using Denuvo.
According to the tests, Dishonored 2 ran with an average of 56.8fps and an a minimum of 46fps with Denuvo and an average of 60.8fps and a minimum of 46fps without Denuvo. Lords of the Fallen ran with an average of 53fps and a minimum of 44fps with Denuvo and an average of 70fps and a minimum of 51fps without Denuvo. Bulletstorm ran with an average of 149.6fps and a minimum of 57fps with Denuvo and an average of 164.3fps and a minimum of 83fps without Denuvo.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Episode 1 ran with an average of 175.8fps and a minimum of 116fps with Denuvo and an average of 181fps and a minimum of 113fps without Denuvo. Moto Racer 4 ran with an average of 176fps and a minimum of 98fps with Denuvo and an average of 180fps and a minimum of 132fps without Denuvo. RiME ran with an average of 87.6fps and a minimum of 50fps with Denuvo and an average of 98.3fps and a minimum of 64fps without Denuvo. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ran with an average of 63.2fps and a minimum of 11fps with Denuvo and an average of 65.4fps and a minimum of 41.5fps without Denuvo.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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What a supprise
Here’s hoping you get the slowest, rarest, most painful disease known to man, and watch yourself erode from the primate you are, into something even lower. You, are a complete s**t stain, that needs to be eliminated.
Go play in traffic blindfolded. Do something productive for once.
He is a troll
Ya, I know. I do like to unload on trolls once in a while. It’s funny to watch him converse with himself through multiple accounts.
I have finally added him to block though.
Don’t get your Hopes too high though, because these kind of tests vary from system to system. They are “subjective” to some extent.
On a more powerful CPU/PC, the gap between the min/avg values is going to be lower. It will depend on system to system.
No, there needs to be balance. Transactions must be fair, win-win – not win-lose only favoring companies. I am old enough to remember when companies competed with each other over the highest quality, not the best schemes. Entertainment products need to be uninterrupted “entertainment.” If we spend time of our ownership in dealing with poor products caused by restrictions benefiting the companies only – then that is already a loss in value to the consumer.
i have a theory about this rytard. since rule of comments here are unrestricted , somebody must have insulted his favorite video game or must have triggered him somehow so now he’s here talking shet to john directly so he’ll change the policy.
Remember that he’s the butthurt troll whose initial posts saw him crying in relation to DSOG with,
“They won’t hire me as a writer”
“site is garbage”
The guy has ‘issues’ to put it mildly. NURSE!
It’s funny watching this turd parrot the most idiotic person on the planet, in Drumpf. The “low IQ” line, is cringe inducing, and something you’d expect to hear in the sandbox at a primary school.
Here’s hoping John gets the spine to just ban this s**t disturber someday. Complete waste of life.
i think he is trying to be cringe on purpose and low iq was used by jf before trump.
“won’t hire me as a writer”
“site is garbage”
Yes, this is why he has a grudge against John and is trying to trash almost every article. The same thing the reader Ugh said when John didn’t pick him as an editor a while back. Some people don’t handle rejection very well.
Oh yes, I think I recall that name as well, UGH.
By the way, who in your opinion has been one of the best/respetced community forum members here lately on DSOG ??
I don’t visit this place, because on Reditt if was told that this comment section is a total mess, full of trolls, though I do come here occasionally, to get some gaming info, from time to time, but all I find is chaos and confusion.
I can confirm that dagoat is a direct descendant of Yakub, his big head gives him an IQ in the tens of millions. I have seen him single-handedly play dorf fort without a wiki and he even managed to successfully update AMD drivers.
I don’t want to name who I think are the best commenters here because I’m sure I would forget to mention a few names. I will say that there are quite a few commenters here that have a lot of experience with games and a long history in gaming and they are worth taking their opinions into consideration.
You just have to filter through the garbage or block some people. I use the old fashioned method of blocking the crazy-heads. The scroll wheel.
you blocked me too?
I’ve been online since the mid 80s and I’ve never blocked anyone. No one has ever bothered me enough to block them.
i like you. but you too sometimes believe what i say as a trigger for others. not saying you get triggered but you believed the things i said about allah and pakis and me being muslim and etc
Finally you said something that interests me. I had a Commodore 64 as well and it’s where my username comes from. It had 64 KB of RAM but everyone just said 64K.
I started out with an Atari 2600 in 1980.
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A joystick with one button. That’s probably unthinkable to younger gamers but it was fine for the games we had.
No, honestly speaking, I don’t think he has any issues whatsoever, or even if he is indeed butthurt.
I think he is doing all this on purpose, just to get under your skin. And, many users are falling victim by his presence here.
Don’t judge others so easily, just by their comment history. I’m pretty sure, he is just trying to play with you guys, imo.
ps: srry for my poor english.
Its either that or he’s a triggrd nigr who’s trying to make the comments section censored by abusing the current rules as much as possible. Your theory makes more sense though given his blatent sperging.
In other news: water is wet
he wrote this
“This article is so void of useful information. I burst out laughing just from the title. John must be suicidal to type up and suckle on another low hanging fecal fruit.”
and then he proceeds to share his opinion
why are you here?
And he’s using old positions from arguments that have been defeated, trying to make people think that DRM is ok.
“trying to make people think that DRM is ok”
that’s what i used as a bait so long ago but i never went after john because he could have banned me a long time ago and he never did.
my least favorite troll.
He has now changed his nick/username to create confusion now.
Again.
These results are the worst case scenario since the tests were performed on an ancient i7-2600K. On modern higher core count and more efficient CPUs the results will not be as bad but still Denuvo definitely has a performance impact on all CPUs and Hard Drives. Anyone who says that Denuvo does not effect performance after watching this video is just delusional.
LMAO
because ac origins runs amazingly well on new cpus eh?
Bad perfomance due to drm? Buy a new expensive intel cpu.
Yo serious nibba?
Correct. I can’t disagree on that though.
Its not capable. You get very erratic frametimes with such and obscenely old cpu. You may not notice it by looking at average framerate graphics that maybe compare this cpu with modern ones. But the difference is huge, in the smoothness and consistency of the frametimes with a new cpu versus this cpu from the dinosaur age that they’re using. They’re also locked by old and slow memory modules.
Really, they’re using this cpu since years past. They’re testing different versions of games that could benefit from months of further performance tweaks. At this point you have to wonder if they continue doing this so it suits the agenda they’re trying to push here.
That’s not true. Please stop spreading misinformation You don’t have a clue what you are talking about. LOL
Yeah 2600K, fixed.
This Paul86 is a total psycho kid. Always writes gibberish nonsense, and tries to comment as if he is some tech expert.
His previous original account was “Luckynumber8”. Created this new one, just to troll on Dsog. None of his comments are worthy of giving a read. He is a lunatic/moron.
Just put on ignore.
So true. By the way, I wasn’t specifically talking about this particular comment which he posted with regards to HT, but just in general, based on “Paul86’s” overall posting history.
the guy you’re replying to is a known troll as well. he’s dumb and fast to get triggered .
20 fps difference with 64 fps with HT on, and 43 with HT off (the same CPU i7 2600). And keep in mind CPU usage is lower than expected, so maybe with better GPU performance difference would be even bigger.
BTW, it’s always hurt people, who hurt people, so I dont need to make your life even worse by being jerk to you :D. I’m just glad I live a happy life and when you grow up someday (maybe) then your immature behavior towards people will also change. BUT for now I will absolutely not hear from you because you are on my block list. As I can see, you are friends with that angry fool Jackyies/kunalshaha (it’s the same person) who stalk my posts for 3 months now with the same copy/paste comments because I told him once he should find a job rather than cry he is forced to game on slow PC :D. He is not “bright” enough, because he post the same comments on both accounts LOL and he expect no one will see it, it’s more like a comedy at this point :P).
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man crysis 3 looks so good despite how old it is.
no but i might
you guys should think outside of box, you must buy more denuvo supported games so denuvo developers get more money and then they will improve their drm and hopefully at some point they will give us a godly drm that permanently stops thieves from russia, east europe, south europe and middle east.
You are too far out of the box. You’ve gone rtarded..
no i have high iq strats like always.
I blocked him ages ago. He is one of those guys we have to deal with thanks to the current site policy.
that moment when you realize you defeated a troll and triggered him enough to block you.
success
but he is a obvious troll mate.
AHAHAHHA by far my favorite troll
thanks for the support daddy, the only person that knows i’m never serious is you. others are quick to get triggered, although i remember you being mad at me a lot before.
Yeah but i learned.
Quelle surprise…
Buuuut wait we were vehemently scolded as idiots for thinking Denuvo caused issues! We were “haters” and “arm chair developers” – especially from Ubisoft community managers when they tried to claim the sum of AC:Origin’s parts were far too awesome for top of the line PC parts at the time. Smmfh.
Denuvo seems more PR savvy than the SecuROM of old, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they hired some “reputation management consultant” (i.e. paid shills) to help them deal with the inevitable backlash.
Its not rocket science you take a game and you shove denuvo, vmprotect, uplay, steam and others in it and expect it to run as well as without all those?
My SSD still hasn’t been “destroyed” by Denuvo.
Dishonored 2 still has awkward FPS drops… Seems to be engine related..
Its definitely a problem with the Void engine. They really should have just used id Tech 6 instead of using a mutilated version of id Tech 5.
VMWare Denuvo is even worse. AC performance is most likely destroyed seeing the CPU load.
First off, “Overlord Gaming” produced some top notch/Grade A+ content as usual. These are so good that I wish they could all be put together as a documentary on “Anti-Consumer Gaming Industry Practices”. So thank you John PapadapoBLESS for spotlighting that channel. With that said, as much as I love anything that’s against Denuvo, I really want the community to stop harping on whether or not Denuvo cause performance issues. Here me out… What will happen next is, “See it doesn’t cause any performance impact, so there is no problem”. Just visit any steam forum on this matter and all you see are the SteamWhor*s defending Denuvo.
As I was saying, There are WAY MORE PRESSING IMPLICATIONS than performance issues that Denuvo brings. We should focus our efforts more on that. Because all you see Nowadays is, “the game runs fine for me” or, “I didn’t get any performance hit”. Those are the least of your worries, especially comparing to not being able to play your game if you don’t phone home every god damn week. Because of all I’ve listed above, I haven’t bought any Denuvo titles in years. Therefore companies like Square Enix, WB Games, Capcom, Ubisoft & EA are dead to me.
I’ve since moved onto supporting Focus Home Interactive, THQ Nordic & CDPR. I’m done not owning WTF I paid for. I work 70-80 weeks on rotation, therefor I’m done throwing away my hard owned money. As a side note, these Denuvo peddlers have gotten smart, they started to inflate their specs in order to overcompensate. Now all of a sudden a 4770k is minimum specs, haha sure… I wonder if I’m the only one that noticed that sh*t.
Not everyone live in a superior country like the USA.
Alert…..
The known troll “highIqunlikeyou” has now changed his username to “dagoat” . Now there are 2 users with the same name. lol, this is fun to watch
Good to know!
nice try.
The day Denuvo got bankrupt for eternity, the day I will held a party for 24 hours to celebrate it!
I like denuvo, devs get to make lots of money that way. Sorry peasant pirates
I dont exist now and never did, but billions worship me and youre a christian yourself and so is your dad and so is your kuk suking mama
Dont worry bro your mom uses the blood of jesus to lubricate her vaginnnazzz before going in for confession, you know the priest needs his fix every now and then. Your father though, poor guy, gets to eat the creampie left inside by the priest, mixed with some blood, he doesnt want it any different. You need to get DNA tested and cross verified with priest semmenn within a 20 mile radius from home
Poor pleb, priest leftovers, wonder how that makes you feel
Dont worry bro your mom uses the blood of jesus to lubricate her vaginnnazzz before going in for confession, you know the priest needs his fix every now and then. Your father though, poor guy, gets to eat the creampie left inside by the priest, mixed with some blood, he doesnt want it any different. You need to get DNA tested and cross verified with priest semmmen within a 20 mile radius from home
Dont worry bro your mom uses the blood of jesus to lubricate her vaginnnazzz before going in for confession, you know the priest needs his fix every now and then. Your father though, poor guy, gets to eat the creampie left inside by the priest, mixed with some blood, he doesnt want it any different. You need to get DNA tested and cross verified with priest semmeen within a 20 mile radius from home
Dont worry bro your mom uses the blood of jesus to lubricate her vaginnnazzz before going in for confession, you know the priest needs his fix every now and then. Your father though, poor guy, gets to eat the creampie left inside by the priest, mixed with some blood, he doesnt want it any different. You need to get DNA tested and cross verified with priest s**en within a 20 mile radius from home.
i don’t like DRM period.
It is pretty much proven that Denuvo slows down performance. Only a retarded console slave would not understand this at this point.
Unlike you SonySlaves I have integrity. I don’t buy games with Denuvo or other horrible DRM. I don’t support anti-consumer practices like you retards.
If you SonySlaves want to believe that then go ahead.
Aww you can’t accept reality Sonyfag. Is that why your profile is pravate? Ha!
I didn’t you to other sites. You delusional SonySlaves are very entertaining. Hahahaha!
Post your full specs and steam account. I want to compare it against mine. 🙂
Wow huge difference in some games
I like kaldaien work but this guy defend denuvo too much
Denuvo is what gamers deserve: you would rather free to play then pay to play.