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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessairly (well, goodbye to Starfield Script Extender in that case). But I think it's more that Gamebryo can't integrate Denuvo lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would also be unplayably slow. Bethesda games aren't known for performance even without Denuvo slowing them down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lets not pretend that there aren't Denuvo games without performance issues...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, Denuvo constantly encrypts and decrypts everything in the process' memory, including executable code, in order to conceal it. There is no way to do that without massive performance overhead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are uncracked Denuvo games to this day that don't have performance issues. Not everyone is incompetent in implementing it. That doesn't mean I'm defending it (but Reddit/Lemmy will like to take any sort of non-attack as defense sooooo), I'm just saying that there are Denuvo games that don't suffer performance issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now imagine how fast they'd be without Denuvo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well we have many games that can be compared. Easiest is when the Steam version still has Denuvo for some reason but there is a GOG version