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Huh. I guess they’ll play the games now?
No play, only download
I have stacks of 1-1.5 tb sd cards in a holder on my steam deck case because I can never delete a game but I don’t have time to play them either.
Remember to power them once in a while since the stored charge slowly leaks.
I have them in a leak-proof holder.
checkmate 😄
How often is once in a while cause fuuuuuuck…
Like once every few years at least. More often if they are cheap or if the cells have been rewritten a lot.
I played RE9 recently thanks to voices38 crack.
Even the achievements were working, insane experience for something pirated.
It’s not the same convenience of Steam, but you can achieve similar:
- I used a PowerShell script with rclone + Ludosavi backup to backup all my game saves periodically.
- Add to Steam as non-Steam game to get controller support, screenshot and recording features.
- And Hydra launcher (or Achievement Watcher) to save my played hours and get achievements notifications.
Pro: You actually own your data instead of Steam owing it. All tools are open source and you can backup the database files.
Cons: Less convenience.Already 100% all achievements.
These bypasses work differently and require you to load unsigned drivers.
Ik, but RE9 was one of the few games cracked properly. That and Black Myth Wukong today.
Given the rate voices38 is doing it, I dare to say he’s cracking all the rest, he probably figured out something at this point, just need to reapply the same skills on different Denuvo games.
So the Empress has fallen?
Empress only cracked a select few games anyway (and I believe she tired of it like a year or two ago?)
Thanks, I didn’t know black myth was cracked today. I certainly hope you’re right since these hypervisor bypasses seem to be soaking up all of the attention instead of proper cracks.
It was cracked today, I just can’t share it here I guess. The rest are still HyperVisor unfortunately.
Wow. I might try it since the game is expensive right now and I wanna see if I’ll even enjoy it considering some people compare it to soulslike.
The bypass probably allows more extensive dynamic analyses to be run on the running process. Crack development was seriously hindered by Denuvo’s limit of five activations per day.
The voices38 crack is not a hypervisor bypass though.
Yes, that is why I said that these bypasses work differently 😅
If you have a server to Self Host stuff, you can also use Gamevault. It’s like steam but Selfhost. You can Backup your Save Files onto your Server (you need to modify the Open Source Client for that, otherwise it’s behind a Paywall.) It tracks your Playtime. You can install .7zip files, iso’s and gog games very simple. You can also see what your friends are playing, if you share your Server.
I also love it to collect fan games in it like PokeMMO, Mario 64 PC Port etc.
I also played voices38’s RE9, was great until raccoon city, then performance became unplayable, even on low settings. Quite a shame, I don’t think I can finish it.
For me only the RPD was having massive FPS drops, I was getting 20FPS, but there’s no big fight there so it was playable.
I certainly hope Denuvo steps on something pointy, but there’s no way I’m installing an HV bypass on any machine.
That shit does not run on Linux, so I guess I’m in luck. I bet Denuvo is doubling down and adding kernel level DRM to all games. Bit worried about what that means for Linux gaming, but I will survive. I’ve been on Linux for like a decade now, I won’t install windows to play some silly games.
Playing it on a Windows VM on Linux with your GPU passed through is probably the safest way to play these hypervisor bypass games.
That shit does not run on Linux
Do you mean Denuvo games in general? Because that’s not true
they mean the hypervisor bypass, which at the moment requires windows and turning off basically every security feature
That may be, but using Denuvo is not free, and the more invasive implementations affect performance more, and by extension reviews and system requirements. I don’t believe you will see a huge uptick for those reasons alone.
I’ve just about finished moving over from windows now. It’s been nice once I got things behaving.
The HV bypass is a blow to both the industry and piracy. All games are easy to pirate now, but aint no way I’m messing with my machine so much just to pirate those games.
I don’t think the situation is practically any worse than before for piracy if you just ignore these bypasses. It’s not like there was a huge crowd of crackers ready to take on denuvo before they were pushed out by these bypasses. Proper cracks still depend on basically just that one guy.
It just seems to me, that because it is trivial to crack them with HV, there’s less effort to crack them properly.
Games are already a security nightmare. Apex had an RCE in a game with fucking kernel level anticheat.
Fucking think about that.
If you care about privacy or security you should’ve started playing games in a VM with pass through years ago.
If it doesn’t run in a VM it doesn’t get played.
98% of gamers dont even understand what you saod here
Playing a game for free is not even remotely worth allowing a bypass to have absolute root access, but maybe this will make companies reconsider whether it’s worth paying for Denuvo. Probably not.
Is it better or worse than letting the game have absolute root access? Because that’ll no doubt be what Denuvo goes with next…
Neither are okay with me; I don’t play games with Denuvo.
A crack and a bypass are two different things
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Correct, I misspoke. Fixed.
I have been waiting for SEGA to make Persona 5 and SMT 5 DRM-free for many years now. IIRC, Persona 5 Royal was $10 a week ago…but still DRM’ed.
Fuck it. I might as well just pirate these things and not give SEGA a dime. They clearly don’t want my money, nor respect my desire to be free of rootkits, restrictions, or surveillance. I just want to buy my games and play. 😒
why do people still play/buy games with Denuvo,it reduces your fps anyways.
maybe Denuvo is as bad as Kernel level anticheat.I’d guess most players aren’t even aware. I play a lot of games (though probably none that have this stuff enabled) and before joining Lemmy I’d never even heard of Denuvo. The average user just buys a game and plays it.
yeah
Because modern gaming community believes in ultra-consumerism. “Just buy a $3000 PC to run your $70 AAAA games every 3 years like the rest of us.”
I bought a 2500$ PC 5 years ago (3800ti, 5900x) and it still performs like a champ
Don’t forget the €8000 gaming chair, and €4000 custom made in-ear headphones.
And the EA game pass, so you can pay to own nothing.
Says console bro who probably wasted $2k+ on a 4K TV. Gaming is a luxury in general if you want anything modern.
Ah you mix up. I am the potato pc bro.
Alright I respect the budget bros. Kinda sad that modern gaming is becoming this huge luxury tbh.
agreed
Fps isnt everything
Perhaps. But getting worse fps by buying the official version is pretty silly.
I agree
Because hacker patches are untrustworthy, and may do far worse than lower your FPS, like install Bitcoin miners. I have also not seen reliable, well-documented, cross-game proof of the “lowers your FPS” claim. There have been cherry-picked claims that are often muddied with other patch work, as well as known poor implementations of Denuvo.
I want to support devs. I don’t want risks of malware. I don’t see any discernible issues when installing Denuvo games. I have never been given one salient, convincing argument about Denuvo being bad, just relentless downvotes.
I very much want to make an alternate /games community where whining about Denuvo is banned, not because I like such censorship, but because it seems to be the only way to chat with normal, nuanced people about new releases.
Finally, the good news I kept scrolling for.
Bout time.
Been out of the loop lately, how much time does it takes them on average to crack a new released game?
It’s just a few weeks per game. It has gotten to the point where people are working down the list of uncracked games from the previous years.
I see, thank you!
