Dev Spends Months Cracking Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy, Learns DRM Has No Real Effect on Performance

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Denuvo, the anti-tamper and digital rights management (DRM) software from Irdeto that many game publishers have chosen to implement in their games to prevent piracy, has less of an impact on performance than what many critics might believe, according to new tests carried out by a developer who spent five months reverse engineering and bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy, the immersive, open-world action RPG that Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Games launched in February 2023.

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[MadMummy76]

I'm sorry, but how does this prove that it doesn't affect performance? I can clearly see the game stuttering each time the debug line is populated.