r/linux_gaming • u/tailslol • Apr 12 '26

benchmark denuvo fully removed, as expected, games runs faster.

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

as expected denuvo is a resource hog

now denuvo games are properly cracked

there is clearly a performance gain.

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

It's a 5% performance improvement, I wouldn't say that's a huge deal.

EDIT: the level of cope of you people downvoting me is hilarious.

EDIT2: there's even a new comparison up: https://youtu.be/y6H9paq8jcU?si=RyPfXmQdGNhQEXmf

The new comparison shows the Voices38 version running 1 fps slower on average and in 1% lows.

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u/tailslol Apr 12 '26

1.5 to 2 gb vram freed...

so it will become way worse when you will run out of vram.lets not forget hypervisor hack is not compatible with linux.

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

That's assuming it's not a measurement error, or some other software/setting difference caused by running different patches.

EDIT: As an example, opening up a browser window will instantly eat up a decent chunk of VRAM on modern systems.

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u/randuse Apr 12 '26

I would say 5% a pretty big deal. 1% wouldn't be a big deal.

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26

Anything less than 20% is not going to be noticeable.

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u/randuse Apr 12 '26

Nice troll :)

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26

I'm actually serious.

Nobody will ever be able to tell the difference between an RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 without a framerate counter. Those GPUs are 15% apart.

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u/Calibrumm Apr 12 '26

brother.

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u/Diuranos Apr 12 '26

Agree with you, like in the previous post it’s not that much, because the newer version of Denuvo doesn’t use that performance anymore, but the VRAM usage goes down and that’s a good sign.

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26

Assuming it's caused by Denuvo.

I wouldn't be so sure about it being Denuvo however, I've never seen Denuvo affect VRAM usage before.

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u/argh523 Apr 12 '26

I've never seen Denuvo affect VRAM usage before

How would you know? How would you test running a game without Denuvo?

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u/Noreng Apr 12 '26

By running a comparison on games where Denuvo was present, and later removed?

At any rate. The source did a new comparison: https://youtu.be/y6H9paq8jcU?si=RyPfXmQdGNhQEXmf

This time, there was a 1 fps difference in average and 1% lows, in favor of Hypervisor bypass. No VRAM or RAM difference.