What is denuvo anticheat and why you should avoid it

[Onigiuri]

Denuvo Anti-Tamper is DRM software used to obfuscate code during the compiling process. This makes it harder for pirates/crackers to crack the software through reverse-engineering. This software has no bearing on the operating system as it is built into the executable. It (anecdotally) may cause game performance issues at times but that is the extent of it. This is what people generally are talking about when they say a game has "Denuvo".

Denuvo Anti-Cheat (henceforth DAC) is the new anti-cheat introduced. It is an extremely invasive anti-cheat software that runs at ring-0 (kernel level) of your operating system which gives it full access to your machine.

Please do not make the all too common error of thinking these two things are one and the same.


1- DAC should not be installed if you have not run the game since the latest update. There are anecdotal reports of it being installed even when people didn't run the game (in some games that uses the denuvo anti-cheat) but I have no way to verify these. Also you are giving your pc information to DENUVO after installing the program.

2- With the program installed they (Denuvo company) will find everything about your pc it's a malware anti cheat.

[GeekFurious]

Link to evidence supporting your assertion that what this game has installed is capable of finding "everything about your pc" and qualify what you mean by "find" and "everything" and "about". Thanks.

[Gabi]

Personally I was about to buy this, but that they are advertising adding a drm or kernal based anticheat as a positive for the player. Sadly i'll have to pass.

[JenJenisAlive]

IT'S ANTICHEAT NOT DRM GOD .-. why are people so dumb

[Gabi]

Originally posted by MrPhillipka:

IT'S ANTICHEAT NOT DRM GOD .-. why are people so dumb

Originally posted by Gabi:

or kernal based anticheat

I removed everything but the part where I specify the kernal based anticheat that is being used here. Because apparently people are so dumb they have trouble reading.

[Miles]

Will you people just give up on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the game now? It's pretty boring now...

[[livE]Unknown_Genius]

Originally posted by Gabi:

Personally I was about to buy this, but that they are advertising adding a drm or kernal based anticheat as a positive for the player. Sadly i'll have to pass.

I´m neither a fan of denuvo in general or of zero hour by now to recommend it to most people - but in all honesty now?
1. There´s barely any anti-cheat in existence by now which couldn´t double as a rootkit.
2. Ring 0 does make sense for an anti-cheat, as (you guessed it) people are dumb enough to trust their next best cheat provider that a kernel patch is a great way to make a cheat that much harder to detect and totally does not bring any risks with it (effectively running it on ring 0, which pretty much allows the base drivers as an injection method and would bypass any anti-cheat without any risk of detection otherwise).
3. In your recently played games list there are quite a few games which utilize anti-cheats aswell, especially eye-poking is world war 3 - by now published and "re-released" by a dodgy russian company (which you guessed it, is using their own kernel based anti-cheat aswell).

Especially given point 3: It´s technically just another rootkit, so who cares?

[namelyx]

"Denuvo Anti-Cheat (henceforth DAC) is the new anti-cheat introduced. It is an extremely invasive anti-cheat software that runs at ring-0 (kernel level) of your operating system which gives it full access to your machine. "
WELL this information JUST KILLED ANY CHANCE I'll buy this game .

[Miles]

Tin foil cretins..

[Chotato]

They added this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AFTER I bought the game. Wish I had my money back.

[%a]

what games use this anti cheat?

[Dropkick]

It requires way more permission than necessary. It doesn't need to continue running after you have entered in a match/game. If it continues, it is searching for more than just cheats....it's not an antivirus so no need to real-time,