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Antipiracy software on new ‘Assassin’s Creed’ is reportedly hogging users’ processors
Proving once again that antipiracy software can be just as bad if not worse than the problem for legitimate users, gamers are reporting that the digital rights management software on the new “Assassin’s Creed Origins” is taking a heavy toll on their personal computer processors.
A number of PC gamers have reported that the game is using an unusually high amount of their PC’s processing time, with some users reporting on the game’s official support forums that they are seeing central processing unit usage at 90 percent or more. According to Voksi, a well-known hacker who helped beat Denuvo’s “uncrackable” antipiracy software, the DRM software on the new “Assassin’s Creed” is the culprit.
As it turns out, Voksi’s triumph over Denuvo may be partly to blame for the problem, as he explains that “Assassin’s Creed” publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA added a second DRM on top of Denuvo to prevent the game from being cracked.
“Basically, Ubisoft have implemented VMProtect on top of Denuvo, tanking the game’s performance by 30-40 percent, demanding that people have a more expensive CPU to play the game properly, only because of the DRM,” Voksi told TorrentFreak. “It’s anticonsumer and a disgusting move.”
Voksi said that the combination of VMProtect and Denuvo definitely makes the game harder to crack, but he added that “if you are a legit customer, well, it’s not that great for you since this combo could tank your performance by a lot, especially if you are using a low-mid range CPU.”
Ubisoft has a long and complicated history with game pirates, and the company has tried a wide range of tactics to protect its games from being cracked and catch pirates in the act. For example, the company managed to disable certain graphics settings for pirated copies of “Far Cry 4,” so users who complained about these missing features on the company’s forums were outed as having illegal copies of the game.
Ubisoft has yet to acknowledge any problems with the new “Assassin’s Creed” or its DRM software. A member of the company’s support staff responded to one user’s complaint by asking for their PC specs. But after four days, the staff member has not offered any further information or help in a thread that is now has more than a dozen pages of users complaining about the same issue.
Photo: Ubisoft Entertainment
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