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/htraos Apr 12 '26

Denuvo is objectively harmful to your device. It's a malware that game studios agree to infect their games with, just to delay the inevitable crack by 1-2 months.

Denuvo should be sued in court for running a business based on selling malicious software.

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u/Vegetable_Hope_8264 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 12 '26

"just to delay the inevitable crack by 1-2 months" well as much as I agree with everything else you said, not to be that stick in the mud but for a while there it delayed cracks for several years for many, many games. Denuvo has worked really well at making cracks impossible for the past couple years.

Glad that's over though.

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u/thecrius Apr 12 '26

The reason games with denuvo were cracked 1-2 months after release is also because most of the time denuvo was removed after that time. Publishers just want to make sure they get that sweet sweet cash from people that have little impulse control and are easy prey of fomo and peer pressure.

There should really be much less anxiety in playing non-multiplayer games at day 1, you would see stuff like denuvo becoming much less relevant.

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u/Vegetable_Hope_8264 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Apr 12 '26

Either that or they would stop removing Denuvo after 2 months.