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posted by on Saturday June 03 2017, @01:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the crackers-∞-DRM-0 dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The new Denuvo system 'protecting' the game 'RiME' has been defeated in less than a week. This is notable, not least since the developers promised to remove Denuvo if it was cracked. Furthermore, a report from the cracker suggests that an apparently desperate Denuvo pulled out all the stops to protect RiME, but still failed.

[...] In a fanfare of celebrations, rising cracking star Baldman announced that he had defeated the latest v4+ iteration of Denuvo and dumped a cracked copy of RiME online. While encouraging people to buy what he describes as a "super nice" game, Baldman was less complimentary about Denuvo.

Labeling the anti-tamper technology a "huge abomination," the cracker said that Denuvo's creators had really upped their efforts this time out. People like Baldman who work on Denuvo talk of the protection calling on code 'triggers.' For RiME, things were reportedly amped up to 11.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/new-control-denuvo-piracy-protection-cracked-170602/


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday June 03 2017, @11:12AM

    by looorg (578) on Saturday June 03 2017, @11:12AM (#519802)

    But according to the cracker, the 300,000 calls to triggers was a mere “warmup” for Denuvo. After just 30 minutes of gameplay, the count rose to two million

    Reading the description provided with the TF article this seems more like a faulty implementation. Nobody, sane, is going to call protection triggers or functions 30+ times per second when you play or load a game. Naturally that would have a massively detrimental effect on performance, and nobody wants that - least of all the producers and creators of the game. That isn't protection, that is just stupidity and sounds more like a faulty implementation and/or some horrible bug. While it have been a tactic previously to make many calls, in hope of that the cracker will miss one and it will go thru, this probably isn't that -- after all you can NOP them all if you just want and spend enough time. This seems more like it something stuck in virtual machine hell and someone forgot to implement proper checks and shit just ramped up by accident.

    One can think what one wants about Denuvo but the guys that made it are not stupid -- or that stupid, there would be no benefit from calling for protection checks that often. It would only be a performance drag and that in some regard would be bad for their own product.

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