- Despite initial fears, Resident Evil Requiem pirated versions do not work better than the commercial version
- It was suspected that players who purchased Requiem performance was getting worse and worse with Denuvo DRM
- There is still no Denuvo-free version of Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom Resident Evil Requiem is part of a long list of modern triple-A games from many popular studios using Denuvo DRM to prevent piracy, known for its impact on game performance – but that’s not the case this time around, at least for now.
As has been widely reported, Resident Evil Requiem was cracked with the ‘voices38’ hack scene, and via bypassing the Denuvo hypervisor. Despite reports suggesting so, there are no noticeable performance differences between the cracked versions and the commercial version, as Reddit points out.
These cracks do not actually remove Denuvo; instead, they trick Denuvo into thinking the user is running a legitimate copy of the game, hence the term “bypass”. In this case, it remains unclear whether the presence of Denuvo actually slows down performance, because there is still no version without Denuvo. Requiem.
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In fact, there are only rare cases where pirated games have completely stripped Denuvo of hacking scenes, a good example being Assassin’s Creed Origins by ‘Codex’ and other games which Denuvo has been removed by the developer itself.
From Requiem is already cracked, we could see Denuvo officially removed from the game sooner than expected. Fortunately, the performance in Requiem This isn’t a major issue initially, as it’s pretty well optimized to run at good frame rates on a wide range of hardware.
However, DRM like Denuvo for gaming has already been proven to hurt performance, and Capcom’s solutions Resident Evil 4 the remake is a great example of this.
The Japanese developer added Enigma DRM to replace Denuvo in the game earlier in February, which significantly messed up performance on all PC configurations, before removing it after strong backlash – and that’s for a game that was hacked months after its March 2023 launch.
It’s also worth noting that while Denuvo doesn’t always ruin game performance, it can easily lock SteamOS (or any other Linux distro) users out of a game for 24 hours when switching Proton mode (which is required for some games and their features).
There’s no denying that Denuvo and other DRMs are very unpopular among gamers, and for well-justified reasons – but so far, Requiem Consumers don’t have to worry about an unfair performance disadvantage compared to pirated versions.
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