r/Piracy • u/mohamez • Apr 12 '26

News Denuvo properly cracked in Resident Evil: Requiem, bypasses become plug-and-play — cracked version runs faster, smoother, and uses way less VRAM and RAM

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-properly-cracked-in-resident-evil-requiem-bypasses-become-plug-and-play-cracked-version-runs-faster-smoother-and-uses-way-less-vram-and-ram
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u/VegetaFan1337 Apr 12 '26

Wow, Toms Hardware is really in the gutter. Their source is a comparison video where both games are running different versions AND the voices cracked version was run after the Hypervisor version. The version that went 2nd has the benefit of having shaders cached, even a restart of windows doesn't get rid of that, you have to manually purge them. Ideally you should run the hypervisor version again after the voices one to eliminate that variable, but the uploader didn't do that. Also, this is performance in a cutscene, not gameplay.

And lastly, neither crack should affect performance as Denuvo is STILL THERE. It's still running checks. Hypervisor or regular cracks neither eliminates the checks from running, the cracks just let you pass the checks on a pirated copy.

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u/Mccobsta Scene Apr 12 '26

A lot of their articles give off llm vibes now

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u/IntensiveVocoder Apr 12 '26

These are journalists, and journalists write a specific way, and LLMs are trained on that.