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Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected

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Comments (75)

  • lousken
    I would hope publishers would take note and remove it, having hundreds of megabytes of junk in the executable is just wasteful to put it mildly
  • manytimesaway
    Don't forget that the guy behing Denuvo is the same person behind SafeDisc, SecuROM and similar bullshit siblings from the past PC gaming world.
  • ktallett
    I've had to take a moral stance and move to just playing games on Gog that I can buy and own the files for. No I can't play the latest and greatest but it's not the end of the world as I've so many classics to still play and enjoy. I can't support lockdown and DRM anymore. If I buy I want to own, otherwise I've not bought. It is true, if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
  • trympet
    Do any of the legit scene groups sign their binaries? How do you know a release isn’t tainted?
  • Daedren
    Wonder what will be the consequences of this. I dislike Denuvo for the performance and stability penalties it gives games, but I do wonder if the "security" it gave publishers wasn't a big part of the reason why we've been getting more and more big name games on PC.This isn't about being right or wrong but about what the publishers will do when they see their games are again getting cracked day one, and if it'll be a catalyst to again return to getting either less PC releases or at least delayed releases compared to consoles.I will hope that does not happen.
  • Altern4tiveAcc
    "Protected" is the wrong word. "Restricted" is much more honest regarding what Denovo does.Good riddance.
  • everyone
    Fyi, most of them have not been cracked, but bypassed using a hypervisor that operates in ring-1, so it is certainly a security risk..Personally I've been voting with my wallet and *never* supporting DRM, so there have been some games where I'm just "Well, I guess I'll never play that game." At least I have an ethical option to play certain games now, I'm just gonna use a seperate blank pc cus these bypasses are novel.
  • ranger_danger
    No, it hasn't:> in late 2025, the MKDev collective and the prolific DenuvOwO came up with a hypervisor-based bypass (HVB) that installs a kernel-level driver to intercept and respond to Denuvo's checks. While that's not an actual crack, it's good enough for piracy work, as the saying goes.
  • h4kunamata
    I find it ironic people mad at Denuvo and yet play games like Battlefield which enforces kernel level spyware nonetheless haha
  • ticulatedspline
    Interesting to finally see some action from the mouse again. Was kinda sad to see that Denuvo embodies all the worst of DRM but was so thoroughly metastasized that it was nearly inoperable and they had effectively "won".
  • khaelenmore
    That's all you need to know about DRM - when "pirates" bypass it, paying users are taking the hit.And I'm not speaking about cost of implementing a technology to actively make the product worse.
  • sitzkrieg
    good riddance. crazy to see game developers hemorrhaging money for malware
  • nottorp
    Are Denuvo using games marked on Steam these days?I've been getting mostly indies so I feel safe, but maybe I should check...
  • m3kw9
    A great use of LLM
  • Neywiny
    Once again I'm at odds with TH reporting. Of course you can spoof a server. That happens all the time, especially with videogames. You may not immediately be able to figure out what the call/response is, but without knowing what the check is, it could just be a simple endpoint that returns "true" on every request. Very speculative to say that whatever they do will be impossible to mimic.