As we’ve already showcased, Denuvo can actually decrease the performance in games that are CPU-bound. On the other hand, this anti-tamper tech has no meaningful performance hit in games that are GPU-bound. And yesterday, YouTube’s ‘Overlord’ a pretty informative video in which they benchmarked seven games with and without the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
The games that Overlord tested were: Hitman, Abzu, Sherlock Holmes the Devil’s Daughter, Mass Effect Andromeda, Mad Max, Agents of Mayhem and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3.
From these games, Mad Max, Mass Effect Andromeda and Sherlock Holmes the Devil’s Daughter saw noticeable performance improvements when Denuvo was removed. Agents of Mayhem saw a very small performance boost, whereas Hitman, Abzu and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 did not see any performance improvement when the controversial anti-tamper tech was removed.
Out of all the aforementioned tests, we were a bit surprised by the Agents of Mayhem results. Since the game appeared to be CPU-limited, we were expecting a noticeable performance boost so we may test this game ourselves in the future.
On the other hand, we were not surprised at all with the results for Hitman, Abzu and Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3. After all, these three games were stressing our GTX980Ti to the max, so they can be easily described as GPU-bound titles.
We were also not surprised by the performance improvements in Sherlock Holmes the Devil’s Daughter, Mad Max and Mass Effect: Andromeda. These three games use engines that favour multiple CPU threads (Unreal Engine, Apex Engine and Frostbite 3 Engine) so it was only natural to see a performance boost once Denuvo was removed.
Overall, Overlord’s results fall in line with everything we’ve been saying these past few months. In CPU-bound games, Denuvo can bring an additional performance hit (and it would be really great if Ubisoft removed Denuvo from Assassin’s Creed Origins so we can test it). However, in games that rely heavily on the GPU, Denuvo does not really have any impact on the game’s performance!
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I fkin hate denuvo, but i’m not sure how it does impact performance, these tests show nothing really,
It impacts CPU performance because it does runtime memory checks that have to instruct the CPU to check a location in memory that exists in RAM and sometimes even on the HDD (facepalm) so not only do you get CPU performance hits, you get disk access latency which causes hitching or stuttering. This is why RiME had severe hitching with denuvo enabled on HDD based PC’s whereas SSD’s had far less of that issue.
Ok, good to know, but are you sure about your words, like how do you know what you’re saying is correct?
Take any undergraduate programming class.
I know because those issues disappear with the cracked (non denuvo) versions
Still a bit less for me to trust you, i played games with denuvo but i honestly couldn’t know how to compare stuff.
You can start the Performance monitor on Windows and see by yourself, comparing the cracked version and the non cracked. It seems you are there like nobody can convince you, so try it on your own.
No not really, i just want some real source and some real evidence that’s all, i’m not saying it doesn’t affect performance, i just want to see the proof, a real one, or multiple, even better.
you’re just retarded
What about you answering 4 months later lmao
It’s ok I do.
So what we’ve known for ages is now proved? Great, I’m glad Denuvo doesn’t cause any performance issues outside of being horrendously implemented. The sad fact is that if we’re playing modern releases we’ll be dealing with this horsesh-t and if it doesn’t effect performance than fine; there’s nothing we can really do to stop it’s use outside of hoping games get released on GOG, but that’s so few and far between in terms of new releases. Or that something comes out such as they’re collecting information, or some other fiasco that can actually bury the company in bad and far lasting PR.
We’re stuck between sh-t and bull sh-t on DRM.
“I’m glad Denuvo doesn’t cause any performance issues”
It does it causes noticeable perfomance issues in cpu bound games like origins, did you even read the article? Also most of those games use ancient versions of denuvo.
Grammarly took out a word for some reason, it was supposed to be major performance issues
Spoiler: It does impact performance but not as much as we thought it does and with newer CPUs that imapact becomes even more negligible.
pssst dont say this to anyone but THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF DENUVO.
You are and idiot, and my prove of that is you always say maybe, probably and “they will”.
You said companies “will” improve their launchers when someone said many launchers are broken, now you say “probably”, Please STOP!!
Pretty sure the day John informed us of Nier no being patched in one year, you just went to your cave and hide the whole day.
And then with new cpus coming on the market, Denuvo devs instead of optimizing their 4ss DRM, theyll take more of your new brand CPU.
Is Firefox, Chrome, office and many software we use everyday using less CPU and Ram? Why denuvo would be different? They are just in their 5.1 version BTW.
It’s worth noting Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter and Abzu are both available DenuvoRM free on GOG. If those games interest you, definitely go support the only digital distribution platform taking a stand against DRM.
Holy f*ck, look at the Afterburner stats at 3:30 for ME Andromeda: the game is using almost 3GB more RAM with Denuvo. THREE F*CKING GIGABYTES. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8bd5bceb31fccdd4411b99324cf832c679b71b341f702550ab03898927a28fe3.gif
I would hope not if he’s explicitly running the game to benchmark it.
Pls dont defend denuvo
“From these games, Mad Max, Mass Effect Andromeda and Sherlock Holmes the Devil’s Daughter saw noticeable performance improvements when Denuvo was removed”
PLS STFU Nejc
You realize no one worth their salt leaves unnecessary processes that can heavily skew results like this running while benchmarking.
What a stupid comment.
Memory leak is a know problem for MEA, and it’s still present(today with the lastest patch no-denuvo)in some hardware/software config.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
According to Nejc, his corporate lords probably had patch it by now. XD.
I hate muslims and anti denuvo people equally, muslims because they’re ugliest group of people on earth (smelly, uncharasmatic, ugly skin tone, low IQ, ugly teeth, short height, ugly nails, fat, unbearable faces, unibrows, ugly sounding language (arabic)) and then anti denuvo people because they have low IQs unlike me ( i’m probably smartest person on milky way galaxy according to ancient proven facts which everyone knows)
hmmmmmmm, bait for someone, cant figure out who though. Amir propably.
he’s iranian and probably not a muslim so no. persians, azeris, armenians ( and georgians (?)) are the only decent beings in middle east.
yeah, egyptians used to be too, but too many migrants ruined egypt.
Not a muslim tho 😀
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2be274d56cb7fc3935dbb06e1ce008246ee311673d7e3bfe88e9349fd6d19364.jpg
they removed it from homefront too, he should have tested that one.
Now test it without internet connection.
I see what you did there.
I wanna se AC origins test. But sadly it will never happen
“These three games use engines that favour multiple CPU threads (Unreal Engine, Apex Engine and Frostbite 3 Engine) so it was only natural to see a performance boost once Denuvo was removed.”
This is a complete non sequitur. Being CPU bound does NOT have any link to the game engines multi threading abilities. Being CPU bound merely means that that majority of work per frame is done on the CPU. If an engine is heavily parallelized, it would simply mean that the work done on the CPU is better distributed across CPU cores.
For example, CRYENGINE (Sniper GW3) has nearly perfect CPU parallelization, yet the game sees no perf drop with denuvo. UE4 also has great CPU utilization but it does see a drop with denuvo.
Game engine thread parallelization has nothing to do with denuvo’s impact.
so basically clickbait for fakenews something thats been refuted numeroust times before :-/ Much more interesting would be to test loading times
Harada is a scammer then. Go back to watch Trump media please.
you know whole world isnt just friggin murica
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c571e4cec502dd2b671b6006683eef788dfe20aa07ae2e958943919056a2a08.jpg
Too funny!
So Denuvo sucks .well it always has.
Old doom 3 was working crappy on my old config. Then I found one tweak, unpacked pak files witch just were rar archives, and game started to at least 2 x better since game didnt wasted cpu time on unpacking game files on fly. Denuvo is even worse cancer! Unless you are junkie that have money to waste $$$ on 1080ti, it will f*k you silently non stop, limiting your fps on low game details, and make gaming way worse
Hahhahahahahhahhaha lol filthy troll loser always looking for something to justify trolling DSOG.
another clickbait useless crap article, Lmao…
WHY ARE YOU HERE WHY?
Why are u so much bothered ? Lol.,.,…just WHY WHY WHY WHY…….?
Your post is so unreadable…
isnt that moron who tested the linear demo with the open world full game?
Mmm…no my dear friend.
The demo(22GB)of FFXV is ALL the prologue, ergo the first full 5hrs +- of gaming without any barrier and almost identical of the first 5hrs in the final/denuvo version. So nothing “linear” but simply and only the EXCAT identical section of the game in both cases.
P.S.:I did 6 hours in the demo and almost 70 in the final version and they both run in the usual way.
You personal experience just solve the question, thanks for that. Stop the press, this guy already solve the riddle. Researches please dont do more test with and without Denuvo, DoLLo personal experience is way more objective fact than your stupid research with your stupid testing software and else.
hmmm they did the sam with arkham knight, no wait thats still broken.
I’m not sure that comparing a Denuvo game to a cracked Denuvo game means very much. I may have this wrong but don’t most of the Denuvo games that get cracked not remove Denuvo completely or disable it from running? I think Denuvo is still running but it’s being tricked into thinking the cracked game is legitimate.
One way or another there is no denying that any DRM program running actively making checks while you’re playing your game is using some CPU cycles and some System RAM and probably accessing your drive. There is some impact on performance.
Then Harada wasnt right, when he said denuvo was affecting Tekken 7 performance. The one I see on FFXV, the Denuvo version takes even 20 seconds else to reach the main screen, in the same hardware, the same version.
PRetty sure Durante drones will show up. But Harada wasnt right the day he say Denuvo was impacting Tekken performance, did Durante say something about it? He surely spend that whole day in bed.