As we informed you a couple of days ago, EMPRESS was able to crack Watch Dogs Legion which was using Denuvo V10. Alongside Denuvo, Ubisoft used four additional DRM protections. As such, we were curious whether the pirated version performed better than the retail/digital version. Therefore, we went ahead and benchmarked both of them.
For these benchmarks, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 497.29 driver.
Now as we’ve stated and before, the EMPRESS crack is most likely bypassing the five DRM protection systems. What this means is that they are, most likely, running in the background. Nevertheless, Resident Evil Village and Assassin’s Creed Origins performed better when they were cracked. As such, we wondered whether this was also the case with Watch Dogs Legion.
Since these DRMs are mainly affecting the game’s CPU performance, we’ve decided to select Ultra settings and benchmark these two versions at 1080p with DLSS Quality.
With Ray Tracing enabled, our system had trouble hitting constant 60fps. While we had a healthy average framerate (71fps), we saw some drops to the 50s. Our guess is that our memory bandwidth/frequency are limiting these Ray Tracing effects (as both our CPU and GPU were not stressed at all).
Without Ray Tracing, we were able to get a constant 60fps experience on both versions. Even when roaming the city at high speeds (and causing havoc), our system was able to maintain a smooth gameplay experience.
As the graphs showcase, there is also no difference at all between the retail/digital version and the cracked/pirated version. Both of them performed similarly. I did notice two or three additional stutters during my 10-minute playthrough in the retail/digital version, but that’s within the margin of error.
And that is that. Contrary to Resident Evil Village and Assassin’s Creed Origins, Watch Dogs Legion does not benefit (performance-wise) from its recent crack!
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It’s just a work around, the crak does not remove Denuvo.
We know, it’s just a “for science” article as some other games ran better (with the exact same workarounds).
It’s an article that serves as pro-DRM propaganda.
Man, this article is cringeworthy. The protections were bypassed and not disabled. The only true test would be to test a Denuvo version versus a version that has it removed completely.
It’s a pro-DRM article.
I advise taking this one down as it was never cracked things like that must be actually done to compare the results correctly.
No. Other games worked better with the same (or similar) workarounds.
The protection is cracked to the extent that it still runs, but does not fault as a it should hence the same performance.
I’m getting spammed on this site. The usual your pc is infected crap.
No spam here for me. So for real…. your pc is def infected lol
I have ublock disabled for this site and I don’t get anything intrusive, just banners on the right column of each page.
My ad blocker is on. It is that stupid Kaspersky Anti virus crap which I don’t use and it keeps opening up in a new tab which is annoying.
Get Malwarebytes Free version and run a scan. It’s very good but it’s only free for a short time and then it’s $40 a year. It’s free long enough to run the scan though.
My ad blocker is on. It isn’t p*rn spam, just anti virus spam that opens up a new tab annoyingly.
Your computer is infected. Those are really annoying, “hey buy this antivirus so we can disable the virus we infected you with”, kinda reminds me of this pandemic of sorts.
There is definitely something wrong with your PC, we don’t have this kind of ads here. You say you’re getting these even with ad blocker so there is your answer. Something is wrong with your PC and has nothing to do with our ads.
If the DRM is still running I wouldn’t expect any improvements I guess.
Exactly, way to many cracks are basically fooling the drm that its an legitimate copy and thus allow it to run… with the same drm performance penalty
Exactly. It depends on HOW it’s cracked.
The crack doesn’t remove the DRM, it only bypasses. It’s still there affecting performance. I thought John knew this by now.
its probably a paid ad by ubisoft
>hey goys, drm is good and doesnt effect performance!
Yup.
Pro-DRM shill.
Hey Latex! Considering how your sister is also your mother it is really impressive how you are able to express yourself.
I wonder why this user is allowed to spam every single thread with his alt accounts, attacking specifically to Latex over and over again.
Its literally the same guy.
Latex is right. Every media we consumed is nothing but woke trash. They forced too much diversity due to some Jewish propaganda. Just look at COD vanguard. A black woman who is the fastest runner in the military, also the best marksman and a scientist better than Einstein? WTF is this?
I’m not attacking Latex, just offering my help to a clearly broken soul. When nobody loves you because you’re worthless it’s easy to lash out at others.
Ok Dr. Jester.
Am I in the room with you right now?
Dude for you sanity block them all
This site is already infested since i blocked all of them its a much more pleasant experience almost as good as it was before they all came festering due to them being rejected from everywhere.
Its a losing battle Jews will always be hated its a subconscious trait in some humans since mt Sinai.
“Cursed be they who curse you,
Blessed they who bless you”
So just let the universe at them…
Maybe they will realize their folly one day or stay ignorant haters.
I already have quite a few blocked. But you do have a point. I need to go on a blocking spree again.
The only fun one is Latex and his schizo posts. Wow, it is nearly unreadable, and I laugh every single time he writes. It is like watching a baboon trying to type on a computer while high on m*eth.
The baboon would still makes more sense 😀
hahahahahaha Very good point! A point that I can not refute and I agree! hahahahaha
Anyway, just blocked another stormcuck loser. These people are incapable of talking, and they always confess their degeneracy through their projection. No exceptions, and their “Every. Single. Time” is an example of their confession through projection. Because I have yet to see a stormcuck not act like Latex, fnd, or others. They can’t be reasoned with. They are SJWs.
Check Volkisch equality. You will see how they are the original SJWs.
“Anyway, just blocked another”
Here’s hoping it was me. He is unusually absent of downvoting my posts lately, so here’s hoping.
Says the guy who is always wrong, and almost universally downvoted here and elsewhere. Plus, I’m sure you got banned there too.
Why are you so bad at history and facts?
when you crack watch dogs and some crack head starts talking about Egypt 1500BCE to Babylon 600BCE to Rome 75AD to Europe 1100AD WTF
Same devs from Asscreed, it’s on topic dweeb.
So you think jews are superior to other humans? That’s quite racist of you. Also here’s hoping you block me.
Superior to normal reasonable people, no
Superior to scums like latex yes but thats not a hard thing to do the lowest form of life would be enough
Where did you find in my comment something racist? The old testament is racist?
Karma is also racist? You act like an a**wipe you get what you deserve blame the universe for not accepting immoral behavior and btw it apply to all humans so yes even bad jews get what they deserve being jew dont make them above the law you think we are happy and admire people like Madoff or Weinstein? You think we educate our children to grow up to be like them?
If you believe that then you are either stupid or just plain malicious
And i was in many circumcisions throughout my life including my son never saw the Rabbi suck the penis of the baby i heard some does like some muslims are radicals that want to destroy the west does that means all muslims are like this?
“you think we are happy and admire people like Madoff or Weinstein? You think we educate our children to grow up to be like them?”
Yes.
Pretty easy to throw them under the bus once they get caught (and even then, only when they have overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing, or in the case of Madoff, when he rippoff one of their fellow jews). I do find quite suspicious you bring up Madoff instead of say, Epstein or Maxwell, shows you where your priorities lie.
“And i was in many circumcisions throughout my life including my son never saw the Rabbi suck the penis of the baby i heard some does like some muslims are radicals that want to destroy the west does that means all muslims are like this?”
Cicrumcision is evil, bl0wj0b or not.
you are hopeless
There is a saying:
“the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on”
You are just another loser in the history of losers who hated jews, you will disappear and others will come after you while the jews will live on may you like it or not
Enjoy being on the sh**ty side of history
Lol, just the same old tired emotional overreaction. I just hate the people you pretend to hate bruh, that’s the difference.
“the history of losers who hated jews”
Actual pogroms happened thanks to people like Epstein, Maxwell, Weinstein, etc. But that’s too far in the past, so you pretend it was just a subconscious mind virus, just like you pretend that these people are shunned in the jewish community.
FND is dishonest and malicious. He actively misquotes things.
Just block the c*ckroach. Wait, this is an insult to c*ckroaches. Heck, even a c*ckroach has better uses than FND.
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Gossiping from behind the block, haha. And i purposefuly changed the quote so you would be forced to aknowledge the point i come across.
“He literally lives on internet to defend Jews 24.7 and loses out every single time, you are really a fool to think about his well being.”
Since Danseijo outted himself as a jew, can’t fault him for standing up to the jester clown. They will have each other backs no matter how scummy they are, even when they talk about creeps like Weinstein and co i can detect their lies coming from their keyboards..
If you want to hate on someone, do so openly, don’t give me this “i just want to help him” crap. Makes you look scummish.
He is not a na*i or a stormcuck to think of those things. N*zi Germany was a heaven for ped*, inc*st, rap* and more. So, it is safe to say the user might be right about you.
Lmao you struggled to even show like 3 cases of alleged abuse of teenagers in that period. Meanwhile orthodox jews suck baby organs on the regular and secular jews traffic children to politicians.
You forgot the list already? Wow, soy is hard on you.
You didn’t give any list. I even pressed for more cases but you where too embarassed to give. Man, when jews accuse someone of being pedo, they are probably upstanding individuals.
Once dishonest, always dishonest. Enjoy the list, more than a dozen here.
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First time you send this link my way, not that i care, i didn’t even bother clicking your first one, haha. Stay mad jew stalker.
Actually, that is the 6th time or more. Because the other times you didn’t even click and sperged out just like this.
Be mad being wrong.
Every. single. time.
Every
single
time
No exceptions with you stormcucks.
“Because the other times you didn’t even click and sperged out just like this.”
Nah, the other times you quoted your links, and every time you did you proved your case to be weak as hell.
“Be mad being wrong.”
Yeah, because i spend all my day looking to downvote your gaming posts… oh wait that’s what you do with my posts, carry on being a r-tard.
“Every. single. time.”
Why are you trying to steal anti semite memes?
Every. Single. Time.
All stormcucks, no exceptions.
The spam posting arrived earlier than i expected, haha. I’m so sorry (not) that you need to constantly monitor this site to report whenever your ugly mug is exposed…
Confession through projection. Every. single. time. No exceptions with you stormcucks.
Go spam somebody else. You never bring anything worthwhile to this website or any discussion, which is why I say, you project and through that, you confess. And every single time your stormcucks act like this when proven wrong.
It is how you guys show how mad you are.
Lmao you literally copy pasted your previous reply, can you just make it 1 minute without lying thru your rotteh teeth?
“Go spam somebody else. You never bring anything worthwhile …”
Tell me how you are mad without telling me you are mad af.
You disgusting ratkin really love to project…
well, you are this user, stop sh**ting all over the site with your alts. Get a life dude.
what?
What are you on about? Triggered because Israel exists?
Committing war crimes and playing the victim is proof that “israel” exists… hilarious that israel shills MO amounts to bad faith questions and playing dumb.
And the Fakestinians are poor innocent little babies right? They are harmless angels are they?
Gtfo with your false narrative
“fakestinians”
Totally normal behaviour for “reasonable people” like you claim to be.
“They are harmless angels are they?”
I sure hope not, they have a right to self defense, palestinians killing colonial israelis is self defense.
Yea because slitting the throats of a familly one of them an 8 month baby is “self defense” so heroic…
You shown your true face when you admitted that you believe all jews raise their children to be like Maddof and Weinstein to me you are not human anymore just another puppet with no free will you cant be reasoned with just ignored and be destroyed if you dare come after us.
We are not in exile anymore so the best you can do is cry here with your fellow wannabe Nazis friends about jews thats the best you gonna achieve in your miserable meaningless fleeting life
You guys spend decades covering for guys like Weinsten and co, do you think you can convince me they did it all alone? lol.
” 8 month baby”
War is ugly isn’t it? And you are the agressors, how many children have your people killed compared to the “fakestinians” you curse and dehumanize. Oh man, i was so happy that jew clown jester blocked me, and then you come to his stead to annoy me with your fake bs.
FND is an NPC with very limited programming and dialog capabilities. Probably a bug, since it was a diversity hire that programmed him. Like his antifa and commie brothers(stormcucks believe the same thing), they misquote to try and win the argument, and try to win it by exhaustion. You get tired trying to reason with something worse than a c*ckroach. They are good for nothing, living off of the government, probably fat, and failed at life. So they blame the Jews for all their incompetence.
They hit their little toe on a table? They blame the Jews
They step on a lego? They blame Jews.
They are constipated? They blame Jews
OAG was a containment website. It kept these kotaku lovers in there(OAG was kotaku for antisemites). But that closed and they flooded here.
These people worship the scummiest of the scum, they defend p*/dos, ince*st, r*ape, and the people behind all those crimes if they believe the same things they do. No exception. FND defended them over and over and over. It disgusted me how he made excuses for all those crimes(from denying it, to saying it was a lie, to misquoting the evidence).
Spamming crap and playing dumb, your usual MO.
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Both can play this game
Report all their images for spam. Since they report all of ours. It is only fair they be subjected to the same rules they subject us to.
Fighting fire with fire.
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Have fun being wrong.
Wow, I guess you really did accept the facts of the research(which quotes with verifiable facts German courts), because your entire post was unreadable, save for the first few words.
I can’t even understand the rest. Do you need english classes?
Nice fact checking you have here s/. He “accepted the facts” because you are illiterate, amazing self own.
Did you read that article about jews being inbred? Amazing…
Fitting username for a stalker. Also how can a sister be also the mother? lol
so many smartypants in this thread. Doesn’t bypassing mean that the denuvo triggers and checks have been disabled, effectively removing the resource hog they meant? sure it’s not a complete removal of the denuvo code but it frees up a lot of performance.
or it could simply be that ubisoft games are optimized so badly that it doesnt matter if they have denuvo or not. They all just run like crap.
That’s my take on why the the cracked version runs the same as the paid version.
Every now and then you’ll get a really well optimized game from them. AC: Valhalla runs really well for instance.
Likely. All of the Ubi games that I’ve played related since 2017 have been unoptimised turds. Anvil engine, Snowdrop engine, Dunia engine, etc.
Iv notice performance degradation after a few hours of playing. Game runs good on max settings to begin with then progressively gets worse until its like playing on console. I remember Watch Dogs 1 had a very similar issue.
there’s definitely performance behind all that layer cake crap. CPY’s Assassin’s Creed Origins being a perfect example of how they resolved the stutterfest.
Intel’s Alder Lake being another driving force for the recent Denuvo titles that have been patched out, are also showing clear cut performance differences.
Denuvo affects loading times the most, since it contacts DRM servers.
What about benchmark on a slower computer where potential overhead of DRM will be more noticeable?
The real difference is that with the Empress version you don’t help finance this crap Denuvo because you’re playing it entirely for free!!!??
Not to be cliché, but this title is misleading as hell. It’s not a crack, it’s a DRM bypass. Which means the DRM layers still exist. Therefore there is no crack, but a bypass.
The intention of the article is to be pro-DRM.
It seems that Ubisoft accidentally left in a game with all that DRM. Glad they fcked off of Steam so I don’t have to see their $60 malware being advertised anymore
Not surprising but at least anyone who wants to try this can do it for free, not supporting jubisoft filth. Of course they keep making it anyways and get paid full price by pinheads ad infinitum for an infinitely available product and the poor humps who worked on it see no part of, they get no sales percentage etc The marxist agenda is implicit in almost all media and it’s no different with this. Jubisoft just doing what those types do, the vultures who project their sickness onto others. The jew Kalergi scam being worked and it’s only one part of it.
Upvoting for entertainment value and I always gain some insight.
Your phraseology and wording is hilarious. A little rude and dark? Yeah, that’s ok. I happen to like Jews from the ones I worked for and met, maybe they’re different in your neck of the woods. Still funny sht tho.
I sometimes have to look up some of the things you say like “pozzed gayme”…. finally figured out it means the game got injected with HIV? lol
Between the rigorous inflammatory stuff from everyone I pick up a little education here and there lol.
why are games becoming more and more woke these days?
True story, happened to me recently. They even do Profiling (like Functionalist Pierre Bourdieu) and when you ask: “what do these discriminatory questions are for?” they Smokescreen or Gaslight you by changing the subject.
Reason why i’m leaving that corpo job.
His concept of Habitus is used widely on trendmaking & marketing schemes too; also used by mayoral election teams to determine models on who each citizen will vote based on their tastes and habits…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)
I do recommend Loïc Wacquant who did a very thorough Field Study/Ethnography in: “Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2004)” where he joined in a boxing gym of the black ghetto of Chicago and even participated in the Golden Gloves championship.
Same way society becomes more and more woke these days.
A new game got announced, Showa American Story:
https://youtu.be/-D86NcserWk
Wtf is this weeb sh*t
boobas … japan … zambambos . . . .. . man gaming sure went to S**t in the last years …..
Thank goodness it’s not a black female dude protagonist, or else you would have to defend it…
Why? Do you really like to waste 10 hours of your life on a useless video to know the obvious?
His videos are usually good, tough sometimes he goes on lots of historical tangent.
Using 5 DRMs on an Antifa simulator game… the irony