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- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, you fell for billionaire propaganda.
Lions (which is the animal in the above picture) and most other big game like elephants, tigers, any large cats etc (so all the animals that are poached by billionaires) never need to be culled. Most of them are actually endangered species and poaching them is highly illegal. Even stuff like antelopes, water buffalos or some zebra specias are endangered.
Stuff that needs to be culled are animals like deer in europe because we have completely eradicated their natural predators and not culling them would completely destroy the ecosystem as they eat young trees which kills the forest. And even that is only done if you have a license and with strict reporting duties.
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
Hand to paw, no prep time. Just as nature intended.
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 2 weeks ago:
I would like to take every big game hunter, take away their weapon and put them in an arena with the last thing they shot.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 2 weeks ago:
In the EU, I know that for sure. Only if the “original name” is Parmigiano Reggiano, you may sell it as Parmesan. Otherwise, you gotta label it hard cheese or something. I think the same is true with pecorino romano.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Nah, I was talking about general impact on my daily driving my PC and playing the game. As I said - Denuvo has had zero noticeable impact for me so far and apart from people claiming it has one, I could not find anything verifiable online neither have I ever experienced the impact myself despite playing plenty of games where denuvo is used.
As I have written countless times - I highly doubt that denuvo stalls the CPU for long enough to have any impact on performance. And I also don’t think discussing this point any further makes any sense unless someone has actual, verifiable proof that it does.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
An asset not used by a game consuming 100GB of my disk space would probably have a bigger impact on me and how I use my computer than denuvo.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 weeks ago:
Copilot please remaster Fallout New Vegas
- Sadya Nadella, probably
- Comment on We are not the same. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on We are not the same. 2 weeks ago:
Crusader Kings 3 has entered the chat.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Tbf, most people probably haven’t even read my post in it’s entirety. So I don’t really care about the downvotes. Just tell me I poked into another lemmy hornets nest lol.
I don’t see a reason why games shouldn’t just patch out DRM after the launch window.
Sure, that’s a fine option. I think some games even did that after a while because there’s just no need for it at that point.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Broski I said it doesn’t look like it but I didn’t know, and I definitely didn’t care enough to look up any information regarding it. You can keep that cringe inner smug redditor under control.
- Comment on It's free real estate 2 weeks ago:
Not in america I can assure you that.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
involves the developer having to call into it on many phases of the game running
Absolutely, I’m not doubting that. That’s how denuvo works from what I understand. My point is that I am doubting that these calls would stall the system hard enough to cause any significant framedrops to be mad about.
If denuvo would result in like 20% performance loss, I’d be mad about it aswell, but everything I’ve seen so far points to a shitty implementation of denuvo that causes the performance loss, not denuvo itself.
- Comment on Honest game review 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why people still take IGN or other “gaming journalists” serious. They’ve proven years ago they are bought, will promote anything for enough money and most of them are neither gamers nor journalists. Just remember the dude from IGN or kotaku or whatever it was who needed like 10 minutes for the cuphead tutorial …
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Strawman fallacy.
You sound like a twitter lawyer. “STRAWMAN!” - “WHATABOUTISM!”.
You’re arguing against something I didn’t say.
You never said it, however, you implied that SteamDRM is acceptable while Denuvo is fine. Which, in my book, is a contradiction if you say you’re against DRM in particular.
You’re the one here defending Denuvo and trying to minimise other people’s opinions on it.
I’m not defending it, I’m just wondering why Denuvo leads people to not buying games but being all fine with using SteamDRM (they’re both DRM after all) or highly invasive anti-cheat. It just makes no sense to me.
I won’t be replying anymore as you’re clearly not here in good faith.
That’s fine, have a nice day!
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the explanation! Didn’t know most of that. Especially the part with the cracked games.
However, my point does still stand. GPU’s rarely have to wait for CPUs these days. So while the CPU utilization would increase with denuvo, it wouldn’t have a noticeable impact on performance.
Just for reference, when the game had Denuvo, the executable was ~100MB. After Denuvo was removed, the new filesize was just ~17MB. Thats ~83MB of bloated cancerware removed
That might be true, but I’m also gonna be very honest, 83MB is irrelevant in a timeline where we have terabytes of storage. Two assets left in the game and never removed would take up more than that. It’s more a question of bad optimization in that case. Also, filesize has nothing to do with performance (unless the filesize is really absurd).
And with it, the stuttering issues that plagued the game when it launched ~5 years prior.
I bought the game a few weeks after release back then and didn’t notice any performance issues, even tho I gotta admit my PC back then was top-of-the-line. So that’s probably not going to be true for everyone.
So, I did some digging regarding that because that’s honestly pretty interesting. So I’ve dug up the patch file list from steam DB for that time, which is https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/7020666/ and to me, this looks like a bunch of optimizations. The performance improvement could’ve just as well been a result of that instead of the removal of Denuvo.
I also found https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-version-of-resident-evil-village-which-reportedly-removes-drm-runs-better-analysis-shows/ which claims that RE:Village runs better without denuvo, and https://www.vg247.com/resident-evil-village-patch-denuvo-drm which says that “adjustments” to how denuvo was used were made. That in turn also leads me to believe that denuvo is only a problem if it’s utilized incorrectly - something that almost any application that interfaces with a game does.
For me personally, it’s just difficult to pinpoint. The way you describe denuvo and how I read about it online doesn’t really lead me to believe that the way it works has any particular impact on performance, unless you have a VERY weird setup, like a RTX 50 series GPU but an ancient CPU. CPU bottlenecking just hasn’t been a thing for over 10 years at this point. So it’s just not that believable. However, at the same time, don’t know enough about the inner workings of denuvo to debunk what you’re saying either.
I never said Denuvo killed any children
Well I obviously never claimed you did, I was just making a funsies.
Businesses that sell games are forgetting that the only thing that keeps them alive is being slightly more convenient than piracy.
I think that’s a pretty stupid stance. If there’s no businesses making games, there’s nothing to pirate. It’s a bit like the AI discussion. If Wikipedia or StackOverflow die, AI will have nothing to learn from.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
This is whataboutism
It’s not. If “That game has denuvo so I won’t buy it because I hate DRM” if a stance you have, you should also not buy it because of Steam’s DRM. Otherwise you’re not true to your own word and therefore unbelievable.
IMO DRM is the far more important issue in gaming.
Anti-Cheat is on kernel level with far more elevated rights. You don’t know what vanguard or EAC are doing on your system at any given time because these applications literally have more rights than you. They also require full compatibility on the OS, which is why league doesn’t work on linux since the introduction of vanguard.
On the other hand, denuvo is running as a userspace process that, at worst, wastes a handful of CPU cycles and costs publishers a ton of money.
Dunno, I got WAY more gripes with anti-cheat than denuvo.
- Comment on tech never works for long 2 weeks ago:
This here. Home automation is cool, but only as long as it works locally with something like home assistant.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Idk tbh, I haven’t really kept up to date with it. I never even heard about it before last week. It just doesn’t really feel like a development hell game to me, it feels very well rounded and polished, not something I’d expect from a development hell game. When I think of development hell, I think of cyberpunk 2077, fallout 76 or skull and bones, these games were truly a disaster on release. Pragmata doesn’t feel like that in the slightest.
But then again, as I said, no idea.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
annoying
How so? You usually don’t even notice it’s there.
unnecessary
True, but I just don’t think most people care about that a lot. Because if you look closely at how much shit is running on your PC at any given time, denuvo is probably just a small drop of water in the atlantic ocean.
drain on resources
That has mostly been debunked by today.
Personally I avoid it also because until recently it was borderline uncrackable and thus prevented me from keeping my games through posterity.
That is the only reason I can absolutely understand. Not “owning” your game is a shitty feeling, but we also lost that battle like 25 years ago with steam. I think it’s silly to be mad about denuvo but still use steam for your games if DRM is such a problem.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
I’m not in favor of it, however, denuvo doesn’t impact my gaming experience in the slightest. It’s like a crash tracker running in the background, monitoring if shit goes wrong and if it does, gives me a prompt to ask me to report it. It doesn’t have any special privileges (unlike something like vanguard, for example), it doesn’t start with my PC but starts and stops with the game and it has no impact on performance (lots of videos about it on youtube).
I get that people don’t like the thought of “I’m not fully owning my game” which is reasonable, but in that case, your reason for not playing pargmata shouldn’t be denuvo, but steam itself.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Denuvo, and in fact ALL anti-piracy countermeasures (including kernel level anti-cheat like nGuard Protect, or Vanguard) added to computer software, is cancerware. It does not do anything to prevent piracy beyond maybe a month depending on cracking scene interest.
This part I can agree with.
But it does severely negatively affect game performance. In some cases, games with Denuvo removed have seen +40 fps and more for end users with absolutely no change to game settings or hardware.
Never seen that myself so idk. However, I’ve checked youtube for “denuvo vs no denuvo fps”, and I’ve quickly skipped through around ~20 videos, and the FPS loss is in all cases either minimal or nonexistent. The only game that was seriously affected was hogwarts legacy with a ~25 FPS difference between cracked and non-cracked which is obviously huge, however, that could be due to a wrong implementation or other factors. No other game displayed that behavior, leading me to believe it’s not necessarily denuvo that’s the problem in hogwarts legacy.
Denuvo runs game functions within a VM, and uses the game license, your machine HWID, and magic numbers to make calculations so it can decrypt the partially encrypted by Denuvo game code. It does this EVERY FRAME
You make it sound like that’s a huge deal, but this is running in parallel, not in sequence. Meaning denuvo would only be a bottleneck if the game renders it’s frames faster than denuvo takes to finish it’s next step. This is unlikely as denuvo isn’t utilizing the GPU as the game mostly does, but the CPU, and the CPU is rarely ever a bottleneck in modern games. So, at worst, it consumes a few more CPU cycles and therefore a teensie tiny amount of power, which is quite frankly negligible.
Computers have become fast enough that people like you might say you dont notice the difference because your copy of the game runs at 60fps “most of the time” with dips into the 30s or 40s. But without that literal circus of cancerware your game could be running at 90+ fps with absolutely no change from you
Well, the reality shows that this isn’t the case and those numbers sound like you made them up for dramatic effect like some supplements tiktoker telling me that costco rotisserie chicken is literally poison.
Now why, exactly, does Denuvo need to do these checks with your license and HWID every single frame? Well, you silly wallet, your license might expire or be revoked inbetween frames.
Once you boot a denuvo game, it (usually) connects to a server and receives a ticket. Now, how long that ticket is, depens on the game. The ticket lifespan is configurable by the developer/publisher, it could be days, weeks or even months. Less than a day? Very unlikely. Afaik, the ticket is only checked on game startup anyways, so the license will never expire inbetween frames. Only a restart of the game could do that, in which case the game would probably request a new ticket.
I mean, did we all forget SecuROM?
SecuROM, Starforce or vanguard install themselves as an application on your system, requiring root access (or whatever the pendant on windows is. Admin?) on your system, enabling it to do all kind of things and literally being an open security risk on kernel level.
Denuvo doesn’t. It runs in userspace and doesn’t have any more privileges than the game itself. That’s why denuvo doesn’t really cause any problems on linux - because it’s a userspace process that runs in the prefix. That’s it.
I get you don’t like denuvo, but your dislike of it seems to be founded on either:
- Best case: Very outdated information
- Bad case: Wrong information
- Worst case: Information you made up for dramtic effect, as you did above
I would prefer if you’d just say: “I hate the thought of not fully owning my game” which is a perfectly legitimate claim. But making up these horror stories like “DENUVO IS LITERALLY EATING YOUR CHILDREN !!!!” is just not a good way to argue against something. It makes you unbelievable.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Never really understood the hate against denuvo. Yes, it’s annoying and unnecessary, but it’s no vanguard or ricochet that requires full access to the system. Especially on linux this is honestly a complete no-issue since it runs as a user-process within the prefix.
There’s other battles that should be fought, especially against vanguard, ricochet or EAC.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
There was a demo for it, quite a while even. But I don’t think it was development hell tbh. Between an initial demo to gather feedback on the fundamental systems and a released game can be several years.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
I can’t think of a single well-known game that has something similar.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
is either staged or generated. No company that is serious about the field is going to show themselves as being slthat far behind their competitors.
Have you even thought about the fact that this is most likely not the company releasing it, but rather a smartphone video made by some random bystander? It could also be a fairly old video of an early prototype - if I remember right, spaceX has once released a video with a bunch of rocket launch fails for the funsies. Or hell, maybe it’s a school project of some engineering students. Nobody really knows the context.
Your claim of that video being AI has nothing to do with the video, but simply “other companies are further than this lol” which is honestly a pretty stupid standpoint. You should analyze the video itself for any hints of being AI generated.
- Comment on The Future is Now! 3 weeks ago:
Highly doubt it. The video looks too gritty to be AI. There’s a lot of janky zooms, camera movements etc, if this was AI, it would be incredibly impressive, and probably kinda scary aswell.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog in 4 easy installments! 3 weeks ago:
I know you probably did this for the meme but the fact that you can buy a hotdog in installments is kinda … yeah, idk. I’m lacking the vocabulary to describe my current state of mind.
- Comment on Fuck yeah democracy 3 weeks ago:
Socially conservative, business focused, steeped in white nationalism
You just described the entirety of eastern europe
