Irdeto, the digital security company that bought Denuvo in 2018, denied that its anti-piracy program is responsible for performance problems in games and even said that it intends to offer benchmarks to prove it.
Steve Huin, Director of Video Game Operations at Irdeto, told the Ars Technica that comparisons using cracked versions of games that load faster and run better are inaccurate, because they are rarely based on the exact same version of a game. “There may be a protected and unprotected version throughout the life of the game,” said Huin, “but they are not comparable because they are different versions over six months, with many bug fixes, etc., that can make it better or worse. worse.”
“Unfortunately, our voice is not enough to convince people because we are not reliable in their minds as a starting point in this debate,” he explained.
Because of this, Irdeto plans to create a program that will offer the press two versions of games to benchmark independently, with and without Denuvo, which it believes will prove “the performance is comparable, identical” between the two. Apparently, they hope to get this started in the next few months.
I don’t particularly think this will change what players think about Denuvo, after seeing that some games actually run better without the anti-piracy tool.
