Wednesday, November 1st 2017
CPUs Bear Brunt of Ubisoft Deploying VMProtect Above Denuvo for AC:O
It's been extensively reported that Denuvo has failed as an effective DRM solution for games, as some of the newer releases such as "Assassin's Creed: Origins," were cracked by pirates less than 48 hours into the market release. For those who bought the game, Denuvo adds its own CPU and memory footprint. In an effort to stem further piracy of "Assassin's Creed: Origins" (because hey, there are limited stocks of pirated copies on the Internet), Ubisoft added an additional DRM layer on top of Denuvo, made by VMProtect. The implementation is so shoddy, that paying customers who didn't spend a fortune on their PC builds (most PC gamers) complain of abnormally high CPU usage, which is in some cases, even reducing performance to unplayable levels.
Ubisoft deployed VMProtect as a concentric DRM layer to Denuvo. Genuine user authentication has to now be performed by two separate pieces of software with their own PIDs, CPU-, and memory-footprints, not to mention user data falling into more hands. Gamers such as this one took to Steam Forums to complain about abnormally high CPU usage, which is traced back to VMProtect. Gamers complain that the game now hits 100% CPU usage, resulting in frame-drops, stuttering, and even unplayable frame-rates. As gaming prophet Gabe Newell once said, the only way to beat piracy is to offer a better service than the pirates. Right now the pirates offer better frame-rates, at an introductory price of $0, while stocks last.
Source:
TorrentFreak
Ubisoft deployed VMProtect as a concentric DRM layer to Denuvo. Genuine user authentication has to now be performed by two separate pieces of software with their own PIDs, CPU-, and memory-footprints, not to mention user data falling into more hands. Gamers such as this one took to Steam Forums to complain about abnormally high CPU usage, which is traced back to VMProtect. Gamers complain that the game now hits 100% CPU usage, resulting in frame-drops, stuttering, and even unplayable frame-rates. As gaming prophet Gabe Newell once said, the only way to beat piracy is to offer a better service than the pirates. Right now the pirates offer better frame-rates, at an introductory price of $0, while stocks last.
82 Comments on CPUs Bear Brunt of Ubisoft Deploying VMProtect Above Denuvo for AC:O
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so funny and sad but true.
Dropped Ubisoft back in 2014 after baying and heck preorder Far Cry 4 to much disapoint ment. Ran like shit. ghosting, lag spikes and at times crashed. And i can see that they havent change a dam bit since then. I am not gonna getting this game or Far Cry 5 for that matter. Ubisoft can suck it.
Just to clarify: Assassin's Creed: Origins isn't cracked yet !! also if it is cracked the frames will not be better as the crack only bypass the protection not remove it, in both cases the paying costumers are the ones that taking the hit and that's what you get for supporting such company .
How can they get away with doing an ASSassin's Creed every year or two? don't people get tired of that franchise? they been doing the same crap with FarCry. Damn, i played the first and second and i can't go back for another, and Uplay bleh!!
Another game to avoid, no problem, there's a crapton of good stuff coming out, DRM Free, and not touched by this arrogant publisher.
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