Thursday, February 1st 2018
CI Games Silently Removes Denuvo 4.0 from Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
CI Games finally released the long-awaited multiplayer update for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 last week. Although not mentioned publicly in the patch notes, the Polish publisher also eliminated the Denuvo protection from the game. For those readers who don't keep up with the Warez scene, Russian cracker BALDMAN cracked Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 one month after its release. Many would agree that there wasn't any point in keeping the anti-tamper tech in the game. But now, with it gone completely, DSOGaming re-tested the game to see whether there were any performance gains without Denuvo.
To make a long story short, the DSOGaming team noticed a significant reduction in the game's loading time. However, they weren't completely certain if the reduction was a product of the removal of Denuvo or game optimizations done by the developer. The previous performance issues still haunted the game, and there were zero improvement in graphics performance. This was expected to a certain degree taking into account that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a GPU intensive title after all. It might be a different story with games like Watch_Dogs 2 or Assassin's Creed Origins, since they are more demanding on the processor. Now, we just have to wait until Ubisoft removes Denuvo from them.
Source:
DSOGaming
To make a long story short, the DSOGaming team noticed a significant reduction in the game's loading time. However, they weren't completely certain if the reduction was a product of the removal of Denuvo or game optimizations done by the developer. The previous performance issues still haunted the game, and there were zero improvement in graphics performance. This was expected to a certain degree taking into account that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is a GPU intensive title after all. It might be a different story with games like Watch_Dogs 2 or Assassin's Creed Origins, since they are more demanding on the processor. Now, we just have to wait until Ubisoft removes Denuvo from them.
15 Comments on CI Games Silently Removes Denuvo 4.0 from Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
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Best business model ever
Nintendo? They might have licensed their I.P out to other developers but never actually made anything for the PC themselves afaik.
Sony?? Microsoft??? -- These companies have their own agenda to push and that is to get you to buy their consoles, from a business perspective it makes sense for them to pimp out their platforms because it makes them more money
On a more positive note, Lets look at some releases that we all never thought would make it on PC...
Marvel Vs Capcom games
Streetfighter games
Mortal Kombat games
Killer Instinct Games.
Metal Gear Solid Games.
and there have been a massive resurgence of Square Enix releasing Final Fantasy games on PC too! and im not just talking about the older FF games that have been ported or remastered.
The list goes on....
I thought those guys worked in pairs or small groups not alone. Stayed hidden more than shoot at things. A realistic sniping game would be complex and boring. This one with or without Denuvo looks like a simplistic shooter.
not every dev/pub is well known, not everyone is cdprojekt, not everyone owns their own store that allows them to at least have income in case their game flops, didnt the witcher1 use tages in the beginning?
CI seems to have very few games lately, lords of the fallen also had denuvo & also is singleplayer
a sniping game is going to have the type of audience that overlaps with the cod audience, usually younger, usually more pirate prone
the previous two in the trilogy had multiplayer, this one didnt, this one is removing denuvo when MP comes out, so the enticement of MP is what makes it worthy of not having drm (excluding steam), but where is the enticement of SP in a sniping game from a let's call it a BBB studio? it's extremely risky for them
the crack came out september 12, the game was april 24
if everyone keeps talking about not preordering or not buying in the first week due to bugs or whatever, then what's it matter if there is drm in the beginning if you werent going to be a customer?? what's the point of badmouthing a studio that's somehow surviving AFTER they fix the problem in question AND have a price drop for months AND added an entire gameplay experience??