It’s fair to say that the likes ofDenuvowould not be as controversial among the community if it didn’t cause so many performance issues with games. It even goes beyond stuttering with the dislikedDRM tech causing games to become unplayableafter an outage caused by an expired domain name. Fortunately, it seems that studios are starting to understand this pattern, removing the software post-launch, and now it seems that Remedy Entertainment’sStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderbecomes the next big title to follow suit.
According to a recent report, the studio behind 2019’sStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderhas taken it upon itself to get rid of Denuvo, a move which is almost certainly going to lead to a degree of happiness among the fan base. While the report doesn’t indicate exactly why the controversial DRM software has been removed, many will no doubt assume it’s down to the technology’s propensity for causing frame rate issues in games as the reason.
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It remains to be seen how this will affect theStar Warsgame’s performance, but, as with many other titles, it has been known to suffer from PC stuttering issues which people blame Denuvo for. No doubt gamers will be able to see if its removal will fix the issue, but it is interesting to note thatShadow of the Tomb Raiderallegedly runs smoothernow that DRM has been taken out of it.
It’s understandable that big companies would want to protect their releases by ensuring people are unable to pirate games, but it’s easy to see why the community has such a hard time accepting it, given the issues the likes of Denuvo can cause during play. Ubisoft is a big proponent of its uses, but more and more studios are starting to take it out, withtheCrysisteam removing DRM from the remastered versionjust a few weeks ago. Again, this is almost certainly due to the stuttering or general performance issues that many gamers are experiencing in titles that insist on having the tech bundled with it.
With the latestIntel CPU also being incompatible with the DRM tech, though a workaround has been published with a more long-term fix in the make, it’s getting harder and harder for studios and publishers to defendDenuvo. With some big games, which now includesFallen Order, removing it, there seems to be a trend among companies that are seeing that the benefits of removing it are outweighing the necessity of it being there in the first place.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Orderis available now on PC, PlayStation 4, Playstation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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