Denuvo wants to prove it doesn’t cause performance issues

Denuvo defended for years against accusations that anti-piracy protection leads to a greater load on the processor and, as a result, to poor performance. Part of the gaming community notes different results for games with and without Denuv and every time they are happy when the developers DRM removed from their games. Most often this happens a year or two after the release of the game.

In recent years and months, criticism of Denuva has intensified as new PC games experience performance issues. However, the Austrian company didn’t take the scapegoat status for any bad PC version. That’s why she decided to give game testers a version of the game with and without Denuv. The result should be independent comparative tests. The initiative should start in the coming months.

“You will see for yourself that the performance is comparable, identical…” said Steve Huyn, chief operating officer of Irdeto’s gaming division, of which Denuvo has been a part since 2018, in an interview with Ars Technica. According to Huin, they comparisons between cracked versions of games and Denuv versions are often unfair.because they are comparing different assemblies. Cracked versions often come with updates and fixes that naturally improve game performance.

Tests have already been carried out before. It came out of them that Denuvo has minimal impact on game performance.. But they didn’t help, and many still blame Denuvo for all sorts of problems, such as problems with Resident Evil Village, although it turned out that the problem was in Capcom’s anti-piracy protection.

Huying also admitted that performance suffered a bit in interviews. In particular, within less than one percent. He was referring to an anti-cheat program that is separate from Denuvo and works against cheating in games. But developers tend to use other systems like BattlEye, EasyAntiCheat or Valve Anti-Cheat. In the future, Irdeto wants to focus more on anti-fraud technologies.