When we talk about Denuvo, I immediately think of Thanos, Cthulhu, the seven-headed hydra, and the on-duty operator salesman who always calls during sleep time. All together in one creature. And the truth is that there is no shortage of reasons for this, since over the years a causality has been established between its presence in certain games and a more than significant decrease in the performance of systems that use it. suffer they execute.

So, since its debut almost 10 years ago, in 2014the most popular of anti-copying systems, but when I describe it as popular, it is necessary to specify that it is among developers and distributors who for some reason believe that Denuvo is an effective anti-piracy solution, and that the side effects that can have their use in systems of those players who opt for the cashier, there is, well, collateral damage (always for the user, of course) that cannot be avoided.

Before you continue, if you don’t know what Denuvo is made of, I suggest you read this special because without a doubt it will give you a very complete idea about this tool digital rights management. And if not you suffered you know and therefore you don’t know about its effects on users’ computers, here we will explain this problem in depth and also show you many real cases of its scary effects. And if you want to know my opinion on Denuvo’s tech solutions, suffice it to say that I qualified it as another enemy of the then recently released Doom Eternal. Now, and Isidro already pointed this out when explaining Denuvo’s issues to us, not all implementations are the same, and that’s something the title developer is responsible for.

So it seems that those in charge have decided that it is enough to be the ones who take all the blows and from what we can read in the Wccfts, Denuvo aims to show users that their software does not compromise performance. The main problem, they say, is that the time window of a game’s life in which they use their software, titles tend to be much less polished than when they’re retired, which is when it’s common for them to release fixes and improvements that significantly affect its performance.

So his goal is to create a test program that will allow users rate the same version of games with and without Denuvo software, to show that at least some of the problems usually attributed to the company’s software are actually due to the state of game development. And that’s something that sounds like a good idea on paper, though it will certainly be difficult to put into practice, and in any case its geographic scope will be severely limited.

However, We have already seen unprotected versions of games whose commercial distribution includes Denuvo software, so we were able to assess these differences. So, and I’m sorry to get this wrong, it’s very easy for me to think that if this program is put into practice, it will be with millimeter-optimized implementations. Something that, as experience has already shown us, is not the most common.