Denuvo plans to offer independent benchmarks in an attempt to prove its DRM doesn’t cause performance problems

It’s still common for big-budget games to launch with Denuvo’s Anti-Tamper anti-piracy software, and it’s also common for those games’ performance problems to be blamed on said DRM. Irdeto, the digital security company that bought Denuvo in 2018 (and previously tried to force Overwatch porn offline), has denied its software is responsible for those issues, most recently in an interview with Ars Technica. 

Steve Huin, chief operating officer of videogames at Irdeto, claimed that comparisons using cracked versions of games that load faster and run more smoothly are inaccurate, because they’re rarely based on the exact same version of a game. “There might be over the lifetime of the game a protected and unprotected version,” Huin said, “but these are not comparable because these are different builds over six months, many bug fixes, etc., which could make it better or worse.”