Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  ^^ Important to note that this is all done in the user space, unlike the Windows bypasses, so there is no security concerns.

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  • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    all done in user space, you just have to disable this security feature preventing user space programs from calling these privileged cpu instructions 😅

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In recent years, successful bypasses have become so rare that many viewed Denuvo as effectively unbeatable.

  Denuvo has been almost universally cracked since the start of this year, author sounds pretty out of date to be talking as if this is a recent development.

  It would be nice if they talked more about this mysterious ‘Linux-based breakthrough’. Given that the hypervisor crack is so widely effective and platform independent, what is the breakthrough they’re talking about that’s beating it? This is the first I’m hearing of it, and I’m not convinced they haven’t gotten it mixed up with hypervisor.

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  • Linearity@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calma homie
    Denuvo was indeed basically unbeatable until Voices38 started cracking and MKdev released the hypervisor about a year ago.

    The author definitely meant the period before this year and their right; before the great return of Denuvo cracking and hypervisor cracks last year, very popular games like Persona 5 Royal and Blackmyth Wukong had no cracks and despite also being the 2 games with the worst offline activation consistency.

    Hypervisor cracks were (or even are) infamous because they’re hard to set up, have to be set up per game (last I heard), aren’t perfectly stable since the live patch the kernel, and mostly because they’re hard didn’t meet user expectations. An important point though: hypervisor cracks were available exclusively for Windows.

    Or at least that was the case until the “Linux breakthrough” was revealed yesterday, which gives Linux the ability to run Hypervisor cracks, and with lots of CPUs, you can run the hypervisor cracks without even using a hypervisor.

    Support for Linux has to be implemented in the cracks themselves too, though I did read that DenuvOwO (de facto THE hypervisor cracking team) is back porting support to all previous releases :D.

    Of course nothing beats actual cracks but then again hypervisor cracks weren’t support to replace them, they’re supposed to ruin denuvo’s reputation by making games piratable on day 1 of releasing. This will have a bigger effect now that the cracks are with tinkerers (Linux users) who wouldn’t mind a little set up to play their games.

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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      thats awesome news. it was getting annoying seeing so many hypervisor repacks showing up from fitgirl and not being able to play them because i refuse to use windows anymore. granted most of the games that use denuvo seem like mid AAA slop focused more on being pretty than fun, but theres a few that look like they might be good.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Support for Linux has to be implemented in the cracks themselves too, though I did read that DenuvOwO (de facto THE hypervisor cracking team) is backporting support to all previous releases :D.

      main issue is that the HV bypasses actually checked if the HV is active - that check fails on linux and is currently being removed

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the method takes advantage of how Windows games behave when run through Linux compatibility layers such as Proton and Wine. Exactly why it works is still being investigated by the community, but the result is a growing list of games that can be launched under Linux where the same approach does not work on native Windows installations.

      That sounds like a very confused author, then.

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could anyone explain what a “hypervisor crack” is in this context? I’m very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.

    Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level?

      Essentially yes, uncertain about the networking.

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  • Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They literally show half a dozen pictures of denuvo games running on Arch in the article. Several of the top posts on r/crackwatch (the subreddit mentioned in the article) about the Linux denuvo workaround. It’s called DenuvOwO. (because of course it is lol).

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s the hypervisor crack, which is platform agnostic and works on windows as well. So year of the Linux desktop as in we’re getting access to titles that we couldn’t previously run perhaps, but it’s not like what the article implies, that we’re getting something that can’t be done on windows.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like it would be trivial for Denuvo to detect it’s on a Linux host.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and do what then? If you prevent games from running on linux, it means that piracy is the only viable way of playing them, leading to mass proliferaton of bypass techniques.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would only do anything in new releases or updates for games where the dev is still paying for deuvo. Or maybe a dev could seek compensation for ‘losses’ of sales due to exploited denuvo version in the form of money or extended end date.

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. Denuvo is easily removed within days? Is this just an ad?

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  • PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey there.

    No, it is not easily removed within days. I’m more impressed than most by Voices, but he has cracked four games released in 2026 so far.

    Is this just an ad?

    It is news. Did you know this before my post? If not, we call this ‘learning something from news’

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  • Linearity@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Within days; Thames to voices38’s effort.
    Easily? Absolutely not.

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  • ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assumed hypervisor cracks do not work on Linux

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