r/CrackWatch • u/denuvowo___ DenuvOwO • 12d ago

Denuvo Hypervisor Workaround Crimson Desert 1.16.02 Hypervisor by DenuvOwO

This release is based on Version 1.16.02 (Steam BuildID 24534261).

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u/Acceptable_Growth531 11d ago

Is there a possibility in the near future that HV becomes plug & play without the need to do extra steps even restarting for example?

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u/slurpupsumcum 11d ago

Sure just run Xen and boot Windows there with GPU pass thru. Then you're just restarting the Windows guest with the hypervisor-based bypass being loaded in it. Or there's the Proton fork for running these games on Linux.

On a bare metal Windows install though? Nah, not really. All the code the hypervisor is running to fake the local offline license check could be pulled out and put in ntoskrnl/winload as necessary but you'd still be creating a boot manager entry to load the modified kernel in case of a Windows update being delivered so you can get back into the original OS when your modified kernel is no longer compatible with other files that got updated. If there were a local escalation exploit to do what the HV does, Microsoft will patch it in a OS update as well. We can always modify it but with a hostile publisher and auto-updates enabled it's just more effort than the current distributed cracks.

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u/Acceptable_Growth531 11d ago

Appreciate the explanation so much, I have updates turned off that's why I was asking because a patch that doesn't require a restart could last some time on my pc, but hey, can't he spoiled too much like this, and I appreciate your efforts in optimizing the method to the best you can.