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Denuvo-Free Devil May Cry 5 Reportedly Improves the Game's Performance by Up to 20FPS
It appears that Denuvo's anti-tamper tech has significant impact on Devil May Cry 5's performance, and a Denuvo-free .exe game file has now surfaced online.
The Devil May Cry 5 .exe file was actually released by Capcom following the game's release earlier today, but has now been pulled. However, the file can still be downloaded through the Steam console. Several users are reporting FPS improvements by up to 20FPS while using the Denuvo-free exe file.
Sound familiar? Devil May Cry 5 is the game AMD demoed running on a Radeon VII GPU at its CES 2019 keynote. I wonder if they were running it with DRM.
Average frame rates are only part of the story when it comes to a game's performance. Minimum frame rates, percentiles, etc. can measure frame stuttering. A significant boost in a game's performance can also increase minimum frame rates.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Sunday March 10 2019, @11:38PM (1 child)
It's funny that you bring that up.
DNA doesn't "want" anything. It is not sentient and has no desire. The fact that any piece of information that is capable of evolution and reproduction will survive and become dominant is a simple natural or mathematical phenomenon.
The concept of a meme is a unit of cultural information that evolves and reproduces like a gene (hence the name). Memes are not sentient and have no desire. Yet, memes that are capable of reproducing (as a parasite using a sentient species as a host and transmitter, namely humans) and evolving (having "meme" potential) will proliferate. Of course, luck is also an important element.
This is basically true of all information, including stories, file formats, standards, etc.
And this is also true of personal data. Personal data doesn't "desire" to either be copied or not be copied. However, they have *very* willing host transmitters (basically every organization in existence) and so personal data will get spread like horny bunnies.
The way to control information spread is DRM, and it doesn't work. It doesn't work for movies, it doesn't work for memes, it doesn't work for personal data.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday March 11 2019, @04:08PM
If you insist. DNA is the unit of heredity that is preserved. When multiple variations exist, those that generate phenotypes that are more appropriate to the environment persist. RNA is not a unit of heredity, though it carries the messages from DNA. Neither has any desire, but DNA *acts*, over time, as if it had a desire to survive. Therefore to say that "DNA wants to be copied" is a shorthand that can be translated reasonably directly into appropriate genetic language.
FWIW, I have no direct evidence that other people have desires, either, but they ACT as if they do, so I say they do. In the case of other people this is probably a correct direct statement, but there's no proof of this. (There are several rather convincing lines of evidence, but that's not proof.) In the case of DNA there's a fairly straightforward translation into an exact mathematical expression that also fits every case where I would otherwise use the term "it wants that". So denying that "DNA wants to be copied" is believing your models over direct experience. There are good arguments why this is appropriate, but this isn't a straightforwards argument. So the shorthand formulation isn't unreasonable. (And you don't want the long formulation.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.