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Denuvo

Denuvo Anti-Tamper, or Denuvo, is an anti-tamper technology and digital rights management (DRM) scheme developed by the Austrian company Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, a company formed through the management buyout (MBO) of Sony DADC DigitalWorks.

Denuvo
Denuvo logo.png
Developer(s) Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH
Initial release 23 September 2014; 2 years ago (2014-09-23)
Platform Microsoft Windows
Type Digital rights management
License Proprietary software
Website denuvo.com

Contents

Technology

Early reports suggested that Denuvo Anti-Tamper "continuously encrypts and decrypts itself so that it is impossible to crack."[1] Denuvo Software Solutions has stated that the technology "does not continuously encrypt and decrypt any data on storage media. To do so would be of no benefit in terms of security or performance." The company has not revealed how Denuvo Anti-Tamper works.[2] The Chinese warez group 3DM claimed to have defeated Denuvo Anti-Tamper on 1 December 2014. The group claimed that the technology involves a "64-bit encryption machine" that requires cryptographic keys unique to the specific hardware of each installed system.[3]

Later, in early December, the same group released a crack for the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition, which uses Denuvo Anti-Tamper to protect Electronic Arts' Origin Online Access DRM.[4] But this took almost a month, which is unusually long for PC games.[4] Asked about the development, Denuvo acknowledged that "every protected game eventually gets cracked".[4] Ars Technica noted that most legitimate sales for major games happened within 30 days of release, and so publishers may consider Denuvo a success if it meant a game took significantly longer to be cracked.[5]

Games protected by Denuvo require an online re-activation for every hardware change every 24 hours. Denuvo limits activations at 4 hardware upgrades per 24 hours.[6][7]

In January 2016, 3DM reportedly nearly gave up attempting to crack Just Cause 3, which is protected with Denuvo, due to the difficulties associated with the process.[8] They also warned that due to the current trends in encryption technology, in two years' time, the cracking of video games may become impossible.[8][9] Denuvo's Thomas Goebl believes that some console-only releases may get PC release in future due to this technology.[9] It was announced that 3DM would stop all research on Denuvo Anti-Tamper, stop cracking all single-player games from February 2016 for one whole year, start relying on other crackers and see if the sales have increased in China in one year's time.[10]

In early August 2016, it was reported that the Denuvo protection found in Doom had been bypassed by a cracker named Voksi.[11] Bypasses for many other Denuvo protected games were released within the following days.[12] Although the exploit used for these bypasses was patched 3 days after the first bypass was released, news followed that Rise of the Tomb Raider, Inside and Doom[13] had been fully cracked by the scene group CONSPIR4CY (CPY),[14] by successfully emulating the Denuvo protection and patching the remaining in game triggers.

Playdead later removed Denuvo from their game Inside in their later patches.[15] id Software also removed Denuvo from their 2016 release Doom via a patch in December later that year.[16] Crytek later removed Denuvo from their VR game The Climb.[17]

On Saturday January 29, 2017, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was cracked only five days after its release, making it the fastest game to be cracked with the latest Denuvo implementation at the time.[18] Tekken 7 was later cracked just four days after release on June 6, 2017, despite shipping with the then-latest v4++ implementation of Denuvo.[19]

Controversy

Some consumers have alleged that Denuvo Anti-Tamper shortens the lifetime of solid-state drives (SSDs) by writing an excessive amount of data to the drive.[1][20][21][22] In a .nfo file included with the crack for RiME, the cracker known as BALDMAN called the v4+ implementation of Denuvo a "huge abomination", with over 300,000 "triggers" called during the game's startup, and an additional 10-20 triggers called during gameplay, compared to other game with Denuvo protection that call around 1000 triggers during startup and 1-2 triggers every few minutes during gameplay.[23] Denuvo Software Solutions claims that "Denuvo Anti-Tamper does not constantly read or write any data to storage media."[2]

Games with Denuvo Anti-Tamper state in EULA that "certain files of the anti-tamper technology may remain even after the product is uninstalled from your computer."[24][25]

List of games with Denuvo

Name Publisher Developer Release Date Source Cracked
FIFA 15 Electronic Arts EA Canada 2014-09-23 [26] Yes[27]
Lords of the Fallen CI Games Deck 13 2014-10-28 [28] Yes[29]
Dragon Age: Inquisition Electronic Arts BioWare 2014-11-18 [30] Yes[31]
Battlefield: Hardline Electronic Arts Visceral Games 2015-03-17 [32] Yes[33]
Batman: Arkham Knight Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Rocksteady Studios 2015-06-23 [34] Yes[35]
Mad Max[a] Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Avalanche Studios 2015-09-01 [36] Yes[37]
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Konami Kojima Productions 2015-09-01 [38] Yes[39][40]
FIFA 16 Electronic Arts EA Canada 2015-09-22 [41] No
Star Wars Battlefront Electronic Arts EA DICE 2015-11-17 [42] No
Just Cause 3 Square Enix Avalanche Studios 2015-12-01 [43] Yes[44]
Rise of the Tomb Raider Square Enix Crystal Dynamics 2016-01-28 [45] Yes[46][47]
Unravel Electronic Arts Coldwood Interactive 2016-02-09 [48] No
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 Electronic Arts PopCap Games 2016-02-23 [49] No
Far Cry Primal Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal 2016-03-01 [50] Yes[51]
Hitman[a] Square Enix IO Interactive 2016-03-11 [52] Yes[53]
Need for Speed Electronic Arts Ghost Games 2016-03-15 [54] No
Eve: Gunjack CCP Games CCP Games 2016-03-28 [55] No
ADR1FT 505 Games Three One Zero 2016-03-29 [56] Yes
Total War: Warhammer[a] SEGA Creative Assembly 2016-05-24 [57] No
Edge of Nowhere Insomniac Games Insomniac Games 2016-06-06 [58] No
Mirror's Edge Catalyst Electronic Arts EA Digital Illusions CE 2016-06-07 [59] Yes[60][61]
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter Bigben Interactive Frogwares 2016-06-10 [62] Yes[63]
ABZÛ 505 Games Giant Squid Studios 2016-08-02 [64] No
F1 2016 Codemasters Codemasters 2016-08-19 [65] No
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided[a] Square Enix Eidos Montréal 2016-08-23 [66] Yes[67]
Fernbus Simulator Aerosoft GmbH TML-Studios 2016-08-25 [68] No
Champions of Anteria Ubisoft Blue Byte 2016-08-30 [69] Yes[70]
God Eater Resurrection Bandai Namco Entertainment Shift 2016-08-30 [71] Yes[72]
God Eater 2: Rage Burst Bandai Namco Entertainment Shift 2016-08-30 [73] Yes[74]
Damaged Core High Voltage Software High Voltage Software 2016-08-30 [75] No
Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 Konami PES Productions 2016-09-13 [76] Yes[77]
FIFA 17 Electronic Arts EA Canada 2016-09-27 [78] No
Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Ubisoft Ubisoft San Francisco 2016-10-05 [79] No
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship Bigben Interactive Kylotonn 2016-10-14 [80] No
Battlefield 1 Electronic Arts EA Digital Illusions CE 2016-10-21 [81] Yes[82]
Just Dance 2017 Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris 2016-10-25 [83] No
Titanfall 2 Electronic Arts Respawn Entertainment 2016-10-28 [84] No
Rock Band VR Harmonix Music System Harmonix Music System 2016-10-30 [85] No
Golfzon Driving Range Golfzon Golfzon 2016-11-01 [86] No
Moto Racer 4 Microïds Anuman 2016-11-03 [87] No
Football Manager 17 Sega Sports Interactive 2016-11-04 [88] No
Dragon Front High Voltage Software High Voltage Software 2016-11-06 [89] No
Yesterday Origins Microïds Pendulo Studios 2016-11-10 [90] Yes[91]
Handball 17 Bigben Interactive Eko Software 2016-11-11 [92] No
Dishonored 2 Bethesda Softworks Arkane Studios 2016-11-11 [93] Yes[94]
Planet Coaster Frontier Developments Frontier Developments 2016-11-17 [95] Yes
Watch Dogs 2 Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal 2016-11-29 [96] Yes[97]
Dead Rising 4 Capcom Capcom Vancouver 2016-12-06 [98] No
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Capcom Capcom 2017-01-24 [99] Yes[100]
Tales of Berseria Bandai Namco Entertainment Bandai Namco Studios 2017-01-27 [101] Yes[102]
Conan Exiles Funcom Funcom 2017-01-31 [103] No[104]
Robinson: The Journey Crytek Crytek 2017-02-07 [105] No
For Honor Ubisoft Ubisoft Montreal 2017-02-14 [106] No
Sniper Elite 4 Rebellion Developments Rebellion Developments 2017-02-14 [107] No
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Ubisoft Ubisoft Paris 2017-03-07 [96] No
NieR: Automata Square Enix PlatinumGames 2017-03-17 [108] Yes[109]
Mass Effect: Andromeda Electronic Arts BioWare 2017-03-21 [110] Yes[111]
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition Gearbox Publishing People Can Fly 2017-04-07 [112] No
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 CI Games CI Games 2017-04-25 [113] Yes[114]
Dragon Quest Heroes II Square Enix Omega Force 2017-04-25 [115] No
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III SEGA Relic Entertainment 2017-04-27 [116] No
Prey Bethesda Softworks Arkane Studios 2017-05-05 [117] Yes [118][119]
BattleZone Rebellion Developments Rebellion Developments 2017-05-11 [120] No
Constructor System 3 System 3 2017-05-26 [121] Yes[122]
Tekken 7 Bandai Namco Entertainment Bandai Namco Studios 2017-06-02 [123] Yes[19]
Agents of Mayhem Deep Silver Volition 2017-08-15 [124] No
South Park: The Fractured but Whole Ubisoft South Park Digital Studios 2017-10-17 [96] No

List of games formerly using Denuvo

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Windows version only

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