Wednesday, May 20th 2020
id Software Backpedals on Doom Eternal Denuvo DRM Retrofit
Someone at Bethesda or id Software thought it was a good idea to retrofit "Doom Eternal" with the vastly unpopular Denuvo DRM as an anti-cheat component, two months following its March launch, as part of "Update 1" (a major game patch). This invited the wrath of gamers as they review-bombed the game on Steam. The game's executive producer Marty Stratton took to Reddit, to announce that Denuvo will be removed in the game's next update (without announcing a timeline), while defending it. Stratton maintains that the performance issues noticed in Update 1 are not related to the Denuvo implementation. If you've read our comprehensive review of Denuvo, where we go into the technical aspects of the DRM solution, you'll know that it can be implemented in a number of ways, some of which inflict performance penalties.
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Marty Stratton (Reddit)
6 Comments on id Software Backpedals on Doom Eternal Denuvo DRM Retrofit
oh wait ... backpedaling ... awww the cheater in MP won ... well the whiner will keep whining ...
If I were into corporate stuff I would patent PR courses for soft brained investors and high rank executives. DENUVO POOPOO *slaps the executive in the hand*
A good anticheat needs kernel access. Otherwise cheats could be nested on kernel level too or even a more complicated virtual level, outside of the OS, unable to be detected by any anticheat.
Come'on. Like you really miss out when going from 240fps to 237fps. Life and death situation right there. Geezus.
Also, it's not a matter of just loosing some fps, the game crashes now and has abnormal behavior which some symptoms are similar with bad implementations of Denuvo.
Also also, why activating it on single player?
Ring 0 drivers can screw up a lot of things if they are poorly written, as Sony's rootkit has proven some time ago. They can also screw up your privacy, as many other rootkits and keyloggers still continue to prove. Do you trust a greedy corporation with a history of shady practices and a rather lax approach to security to install a rootkit on your personal device? Apparently many people see a problem here.