Thursday, August 9th 2018
Denuvo's Impact on Game Performance Benchmarked
Denuvo's impact on gaming performance has been spoken of immensely - as always has been the case for any and all DRM solution that finds its way into games. However, evidence always seemed to be somewhat anecdotal on whether or not Denuvo really impacted performance - for a while, the inability to test games with Denuvo implemented and officially removed (which, unsurprisingly, isn't the same as it being cracked) was a grand stopgap to any sort of serious testing.
Now, courtesy of Overlord's YouTube channel, we can see whether or not Denuvo impacts performance. In a total of seven games tested on a platform with an Intel Core i7 2600K stock CPU (for adequate testing of whether Denuvo really impacts more the CPU than any other system component) paired with a stock clocked 1080 ti. You really should take a look at the video; it's a short, informative one, but the gist of is this: Some games revealed performance improvements with Denuvo being removed: Mass Effect: Andromeda saw a huge boost from an average of 57 FPS all the way to 64 FPS due to the removal of the DRM solution; and Mad Max saw a more meager 54 to 60 FPS increase. The other games (which included Hitman, Abzu, and others, didn't see any performance difference.
Sources:
Overlord's YouTube Channel, via HardOCP
Now, courtesy of Overlord's YouTube channel, we can see whether or not Denuvo impacts performance. In a total of seven games tested on a platform with an Intel Core i7 2600K stock CPU (for adequate testing of whether Denuvo really impacts more the CPU than any other system component) paired with a stock clocked 1080 ti. You really should take a look at the video; it's a short, informative one, but the gist of is this: Some games revealed performance improvements with Denuvo being removed: Mass Effect: Andromeda saw a huge boost from an average of 57 FPS all the way to 64 FPS due to the removal of the DRM solution; and Mad Max saw a more meager 54 to 60 FPS increase. The other games (which included Hitman, Abzu, and others, didn't see any performance difference.
30 Comments on Denuvo's Impact on Game Performance Benchmarked
"Mass Effect: Andromeda saw a huge boost from an average of 57 FPS all the way to 64 FPS due to the removal of the DRM solution; and Mad Max saw a more meager 54 to 60 FPS increase "
64-57 = 7 "huge"
60-54 = 6 "meager"
that's a really fine line... Not so many superlatives? :)
How is this company still in business?
167w vs 200w (GPU power)
137w vs 175W
Thanks denuvo! ;) .....
After Voksi case I'm not buying some fake PR stunt desperately begging for karma.
I don't know about other digital sites if they sell the game or console platforms, but the numbers on Steam look abysmal (average player numbers).
Around 20.5k for the month of June.
Around 4.3k for the month of July.
Around 2.9K so far for the month of August
( steamcharts.com/app/648350#All )
Perhaps the game isn't worth anyone's time to try and crack?
Well. There u have it
Just because it may be doing poorly on Steam doesn't mean it isn't doing fantastic on PlayStation and Xbox. Unless a publisher comments on it during an earnings call, we never know.
60k players at peak, acording to Steamspy - 500k-1m owners.
example - Doom had 30k players at peak.
After playing 100 hours of Hitman, I can definitively tell you that Hitman still has some kind of DRM check that interrupts gameplay (e.g. 47 drops the body he is dragging) but it isn't all of the time.