Proof that VMPRotect DRM is destroying the performance of Assassin's Creed Origins

[Miden]

Okay people, after reading and re-reading, seeking the cause of the game's terrible performance, I ended up finding definitive proof that Ubisoft's entire story about the game being too intensive and made to use 100% of a high-end CPU is a lie and here's how anyone can do it.

Start with the following (I did it with an Xbox 360 controller):

Put your game on 30 FPS, your rig doesn't matter, just do it

Let the benchmarking application run.

Press F1 to open up the performance painel of your rig.

Notice that your benchmarking has no effect on the FPS cap even if you set it to 30 and runs perfectly depending on how good your computer is. Now run the benchmark again and, at any moment, move the analog stick, press a button, anything and presto, the game's performance drops to 30 FPS and your CPU begins to get taxed beyond the necessary compared to the previous setup.

Take into consideration this Reddit post on the matter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/79pzwi/proof_that_assassins_creed_origins_uses_vmprotect/

"While I was playing, I put memory breakpoint on both VMProtect sections in the exe to see if it's called while I'm playing. Once the breakpoint was enabled, I immediately landed on vmp0, called from game's code. Which means it called every time this particular game code is executed, which game code is responsible for player movement, meaning it's called non-stop."

You can see firsthand, with no need for third party software, that DRM is impacting the performance of a game we bought legally. They try save their pockets from "pirates" by hurting us.

I'll leave this here so any Ubisoft developer that reads this post know that their PR talk is a lie, VMProtect does have a negative impact on our game experience and, as a legitimate consumer, I demand it to be removed.

[PhilCheesy]

I wasn't disagreeing with him about the 780 being outdated, he is a shill because he supports Ubisoft using Denuvo and VMProtect which whether you like to admit it or not it is detroying this games performance and is causing issues with CPUs

[Roy]

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

I wasn't disagreeing with him about the 780 being outdated, he is a shill because he supports Ubisoft using Denuvo and VMProtect which whether you like to admit it or not it is detroying this games performance and is causing issues with CPUs

But it make pirates crying? Hahaha its delicious

[PhilCheesy]

Money talks の投稿を引用：

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

I wasn't disagreeing with him about the 780 being outdated, he is a shill because he supports Ubisoft using Denuvo and VMProtect which whether you like to admit it or not it is detroying this games performance and is causing issues with CPUs

But it make pirates crying? Hahaha its delicious

I don't care, I bought the game and would wish for it to actually play well. At the moment the game isn't shelf ready and is a joke like everything Ubisoft does. They should have spent more time on the game and optimizing it. The Witcher 3 is a great game that CD Project Red didn't need to resort to using Denuvo or VMProtect to stop piracy, The game is so good that people actually bought it to support the devs, something Ubisoft will never have because they are a terrible company that makes some of the worst buisness moves and gives no F's about their fans or customers.

[Rautamies]

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

Money talks の投稿を引用：

But it make pirates crying? Hahaha its delicious

I don't care, I bought the game and would wish for it to actually play well. At the moment the game isn't shelf ready and is a joke like everything Ubisoft does. They should have spent more time on the game and optimizing it. The Witcher 3 is a great game that CD Project Red didn't need to resort to using Denuvo or VMProtect to stop piracy, The game is so good that people actually bought it to support the devs, something Ubisoft will never have because they are a terrible company that makes some of the worst buisness moves and gives no F's about their fans or customers.

Dude, don't feed the troll.

[Aleric]

kmarkopl の投稿を引用：

Here we go again !
Like there is not enough Crap threads like that !
50+ hours game play, zero issues, 1080p ultra-high, 50+fps in Alexandria, 60+ out about.

You dont seem to understand the problem. It runs for many of us like that, but it could run at constant 144fps for example without this drm stuff. Its all about DRM killing performance. Game is playable yes, but at high cpu usage and thats just caused by DRM. Without everything would be perfectly smooth without having 100% CPU Usage and stuff.

[revolver-22]

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

Money talks の投稿を引用：

Gtx 780 is a trash. And you complain drm is the problem? Lol

Look one of the other paid shills.

He just made a thread that we all should clap Ubisoft. Honestly, I don't know if non-existent IQ or truly a paid shill.

[Colts]

Miden の投稿を引用：

Dr. ShocksOculus -SEAHAWKS!!! の投稿を引用：

Specs?

My Specs aren't that great, but they can run Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Doom, Deus Ex MD, etc ... with a good 45/60 frames per second and my cpu does not fry an egg.

Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666 Mhz
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-Gaming 3
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

More towards the end of the year, I'm going to change my video card to a ZOTAC 1080TI + 32GB ram ... Only that taking into account what I'm reading here on the forums, neither these improvements will make a difference = /

Whats your ram speed its not 666mhz for real right?

I have i7 4790k @ 4.6ghz don't have any issue running the game but do get high cpu usage in benchmark at certain areas of it but doesn't effect my performance at all.

EVGA GTX 1070 FE
16GB DDR3 1866mhz.

[dejosensi]

some people are selifsh if it run goof for you that doesn't mean everyone should run good too, and the problem is vmp +denovu keep stress the cpu for nothing i'm sure if they remove it my cpu can handle it easy

[Undyingrebel89]

game runs perfectly smooth on my system. I was concerned at first with the reviews but after going into the gefore experience and using the optimized settings i have no issue. Frame rate never drops below 40 fps. I did run an initial benchmark with optimized setting applied and it stayed between 40 and 50 fps. Not sure if this wll help anyone and nsure if AMD have a similar software to nvidia with their cards but maybe try using that software, it seems to have help my experience out with the game.

i have a gtx 1050ti 4gb, intel i7 4790 at 3.6ghz and 12gb of ram

[Miden]

Colts - #13 Ghost の投稿を引用：

Miden の投稿を引用：

My Specs aren't that great, but they can run Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Doom, Deus Ex MD, etc ... with a good 45/60 frames per second and my cpu does not fry an egg.

Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.00GHz
8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666 Mhz
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97X-Gaming 3
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

More towards the end of the year, I'm going to change my video card to a ZOTAC 1080TI + 32GB ram ... Only that taking into account what I'm reading here on the forums, neither these improvements will make a difference = /

Whats your ram speed its not 666mhz for real right?

I have i7 4790k @ 4.6ghz don't have any issue running the game but do get high cpu usage in benchmark at certain areas of it but doesn't effect my performance at all.

EVGA GTX 1070 FE
16GB DDR3 1866mhz.

Yeah, for real... But I going to chance that at the end of the year :/

[Horace Pinker]

Why is neither that or denuvo on the store page? Shame on you steam, you show denuvo on the store page for other games now tsk tsk.

Money talks の投稿を引用：

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

I wasn't disagreeing with him about the 780 being outdated, he is a shill because he supports Ubisoft using Denuvo and VMProtect which whether you like to admit it or not it is detroying this games performance and is causing issues with CPUs

But it make pirates crying? Hahaha its delicious

But it'll be ubi crying the next game once this one is proven to run much smore smooth and at higher frames once people remove the vmjunk from it. I'm willing to bet money on this one. On the performance difference, not on ubi giving a ♥♥♥♥ whether or not people find out nor most of their fanbase having an ounce of patience and dignity the next time around or else they would have long before now even.

I used to wonder what the biggest cod fanboys were like, if they belong on rick and morty or something, but it's the ubi fanboys that would probably crack me up the most if I were to meet one. You're just a shill, so don't bother describing yourself until they give you something to paste here. I'm talking about the folks defending their decision to waste twice the price of what used to be full AAA games on a game that still blocks content if you didn't trust the swindlers before you got a chance to read any USER based opinions on the game. Such as, drm tanks performance don't spend twice the price of what used to be full AAA games on this pos. They block content and hold it hostage to swindle you before you hear the game runs like ♥♥♥♥ while gamestop makes jokes about the blocked content to their console zombies.

Once the performance tanking portion of the drm is probably circumvented in a manner that removes the vm portion entirely, watch the free version be the full game no blocked content running at almost 20 extra fps. Then ubi will make a 'performance oriented' patch, that basically just removes the vm garbage on their version but without telling you they did that, just to not look like ass.

I will laugh my ass off, not at seeing what I expected to happen happen, just at the fanbase for knowing they will buy into this repeatedly in a never-ending cycle of ubiflacid snakeoil. All the while blaming one another for their mistreatment. I don't even bother playing most ubi games for free, and haven't for a long time, the last one I put any time into was fc3. I find more entertainment in their fanbase. I should edit and add that rocksmith is currently the only ubi game I feel is worth using, that and clash of heroes, but those are personal taste.

[nenoro]

Miden の投稿を引用：

PhilCheesy の投稿を引用：

We need more threads like this. The game itself is great and i'm enjoying it but the performance issues are way too bad that I have a tough time playing it :/

I can't play it because i fear that any moment my PC can get on fire -_-

You made my day dude i laugh hella hard.

Also i'm aware about this low perf i have the same issue in cities and cutscenes but i finish the story since tuesday and uninstall the game that sucks i can't get a refund after 2 hours+

[Pusheen the Cart]

lmurkett の投稿を引用：

game runs perfectly smooth on my system. I was concerned at first with the reviews but after going into the gefore experience and using the optimized settings i have no issue. Frame rate never drops below 40 fps. I did run an initial benchmark with optimized setting applied and it stayed between 40 and 50 fps. Not sure if this wll help anyone and nsure if AMD have a similar software to nvidia with their cards but maybe try using that software, it seems to have help my experience out with the game.

i have a gtx 1050ti 4gb, intel i7 4790 at 3.6ghz and 12gb of ram

The thing is, though, that "40-50 FPS" isn't "perfectly smooth". It might be enough for you to enjoy the game, and if so that's great, but it doesn't eliminate the problem or really counter it. For me the game his my processor HARD (I5-4790K), maxing it out at 100% in cities and hovering around 90% utilization elsewhere as well. That's not normal, something's wrong with the game.

On my system at 1440P at Very High settings I'm getting about 60 FPS most times (which is what I'd expect on a GTX 1080) but it dips to 30 - 40 in cities, occasionally going down to the 20s. My GPU isn't getting maxed out, my processor is. And it shouldn't be!

I'm honestly considering refunding the game and waiting until they fix it -- if they ever do.

[PastHaze]

RX 480 8GB ANY preset 20 - 25 fps

Explain urself

[Edzio21]

i open all region, i kill all target, i kill Ceasar with stable performance, no crash and major issue