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I certainly hope Denuvo steps on something pointy, but there's no way I'm installing an HV bypass on any machine.
What is hv bypass?
It's the bypass in question that falsifies validation data to the Denuvo DRM. It runs under the OS (Windows in this case), which gives it more permissions than your operating system itself. You have to disable a significant amount of your security, reboot, run your game with the HV bypass, reenable your security, reboot, and then you can use your PC normally again. Even if you trust the HV bypass software (and I don't personally think that's a good idea), you are still opening your machine up to attack. If you are perfect in your actions and very cautious you can minimize the risk, but slipping up could leave your PC compromised. It's just too much risk.
On my last computer I downloaded the Harry Potter game and it was cracked by Empress, a vicious anti-trans right-wing Russian woman. I just hung out in a telegram when the game was released and man the toxic shit she spewed was nasty. Proper fking nasty.
And I purposefully disabled the security on my PC and installed something she made.
Yes it was stupid, but I was lonely and really nostalgic for Hogwarts and felt less like donating actual money to a billionaire trans-hater than possibly giving a Russian trans-hater access to my machine.
In real life, she is probably a gay male accountant from Ohio. I feel like people in these situations go out of their way to create alternate identities.
That shit does not run on Linux, so I guess I'm in luck. I bet Denuvo is doubling down and adding kernel level DRM to all games. Bit worried about what that means for Linux gaming, but I will survive. I've been on Linux for like a decade now, I won't install windows to play some silly games.
Playing it on a Windows VM on Linux with your GPU passed through is probably the safest way to play these hypervisor bypass games.
The HV bypass is a blow to both the industry and piracy. All games are easy to pirate now, but aint no way I'm messing with my machine so much just to pirate those games.
Finally, the good news I kept scrolling for.
Playing a game for free is not even remotely worth allowing a crack to have absolute root access, but maybe this will make companies reconsider whether it's worth paying for Denuvo. Probably not.
Is it better or worse than letting the game have absolute root access? Because that'll no doubt be what Denuvo goes with next...
A crack and a bypass are two different things
I played RE9 recently thanks to voices38 crack.
Even the achievements were working, insane experience for something pirated.
It's not the same convenience of Steam, but you can achieve similar:
Pro: You actually own your data instead of Steam owing it. All tools are open source and you can backup the database files.
Cons: Less convenience.
Already 100% all achievements.
These bypasses work differently and require you to load unsigned drivers.
Ik, but RE9 was one of the few games cracked properly. That and Black Myth Wukong today.
Given the rate voices38 is doing it, I dare to say he's cracking all the rest, he probably figured out something at this point, just need to reapply the same skills on different Denuvo games.
So the Empress has fallen?
Thanks, I didn't know black myth was cracked today. I certainly hope you're right since these hypervisor bypasses seem to be soaking up all of the attention instead of proper cracks.
It was cracked today, I just can't share it here I guess. The rest are still HyperVisor unfortunately.
The bypass probably allows more extensive dynamic analyses to be run on the running process. Crack development was seriously hindered by Denuvo's limit of five activations per day.
The voices38 crack is not a hypervisor bypass though.
Yes, that is why I said that these bypasses work differently 😅
Huh. I guess they'll play the games now?
Are any of them worth playing?
I played the demo for Pragmata. It seems like a good 3rd person capcom shooter.
Ain't no way I'm paying full price for less updates and a rootkit. It's always better to wait on these games.
Been out of the loop lately, how much time does it takes them on average to crack a new released denial game?
It's just a few weeks per game. It has gotten to the point where people are working down the list of uncracked games from the previous years.
Bout time.