What is Denuvo ???

[hmmrthelegend]

what is denuvo and why does the modding community hates it like they hate it to the very core.

 

is it true that denuvo affects the performance of pc games?ie.Batman Arkham knight,justcause 3,totalwar warhammer,rise of tomb raider(windows store edition)

 

[PlayStation 2]

It's a really awkward DRM system that's been proven to be pretty tough to crack.

Basically why no one in the modding community likes DRM.

[astrosheen]

3 minutes ago, hmmrthelegend said:

what is denuvo and why does the modding community hates it like they hate it to the very core.

 

is it true that denuvo affects the performance of pc games?ie.Batman Arkham knight,justcause 3,totalwar warhammer,rise of tomb raider(windows store edition)

 

a quick google will tell you what it is. The modding and pirating community hates it because the game will not longer work if tampered with at all therefore no modding and pirating. As for performance others may know more than me

[Kamina]

It is a DRM developed by ex-crackers. 

 

It's an annoyance for modders. For pirates, well... maybe they should purchase the game instead.

[Delicieuxz]

I don't know if this will be the case, but Creative Assembly have said in the Steam forums that Denuvo won't interfere with modding Total War: Warhammer.

[Drunken Savior]

Denuvo is a piece of anti-tamper software that protects the .exe file.  In many cases, modders will alter the .exe file of a game to allow for complex mods to function.

 

[Edit]  Denuvo doesn't prevent all modding, just mods that need the .exe file altered.  MGSV, Just Cause 3, and Dragon Age: Inquisition all have mod scenes to varying degrees.

 

As for your other question (Does Denuvo affect the performance of games?), it's hard to say if it affects any game significantly.  Anything running on your PC in tandem with games can affect performance, but it's unknown if Denuvo has had any major impact (the early SSD rumors were virtually proven false as no one has been able to successfully recreate the problem after it was discovered and many people, myself included, looked for excessive writing to the storage device when playing Denuvo protected games).  However, many games that run Denuvo have been very good, in terms of performance, such as MGSV and Mad Max.  And so far, the newest Denuvo protected game, Doom, doesn't seem to suffer from being a badly optimized PC game.  So my gut tells me that any performance impact Denuvo has is very, very minimal and that badly optimized games, like Arkham Knight, are at the fault of their developers and not Denuvo.