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Denuvo DRM removed from upcoming strategy game, dev blames “performance impact”

Enlarge / The Humankind hand slams down on Denuvo in this week’s latest story of DRM woe. (credit: Aurich Lawson ) For years, PC gamers have wondered out loud whether antipiracy solutions like Denuvo get in the way of game performance, since the solutions tend to operate in the background in search of piracy-related flags. […]

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Better performance for pirates: Crack removes stutters from Capcom PC game

Resident Evil 8: Village‘s retail PC version, as accessed from Steam, suffers from sporadic midcombat stutters, as the top-left “performance graph” indicates. This week’s cracked version has, at least in one independently verified testing scenario, solved this issue. [credit: Capcom ] Over the weekend, the PC version of May 2021’s Resident Evil 8: Village was apparently […]

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Activision releases online-only PC game without online content, cracked in one day

Enlarge / Want to avoid this warning message on Crash Bandicoot 4‘s PC version? That’s currently not an option for anyone who’s bought the game. (credit: Activision / Sam Machkovech) 2020’s Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time received a soft relaunch on Friday that revolved around next-gen console patches, a downgraded port for Nintendo Switch, […]