With the first update for Doom Eternal is among others Denuvo Anti-Cheat has been implemented as a protective measure against cheaters. The anti-cheat system includes a kernel mode driver (operating system kernel; full access to hardware and RAM) that starts automatically when the game starts and ends later. The developers promised that Denuvo Anti-Cheat will not take screenshots, will not scan the files on the PC and will not stream shell code from the Internet. The anti-cheat measures were also activated if you only wanted to play the single player mode.
The reactions of the users of Doom Eternal were very clear and were expressed in more than 6,600 negative user reviews of the shooter Steam, causing the overall rating to drop from “extremely positive” to “largely positive”. Many players argued that the measures were exaggerated, especially since the battle mode is often seen only as a “bonus addition”.
The reactions to the introduction of Denuvo Anti-Cheat with Update 1 are clear.
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id Software and Bethesda reacted to the “Shitstorm” and announced Reddit to remove Denuvo Anti-Cheat with the next PC update. Marty Stratton (Executive Producer) said that, unlike Doom’s multiplayer (2016), they wanted to respond faster with an anti-cheat solution this time, Denuvo’s solution had met their standards, and cheat protection at the kernel level was most effective – Valorant also uses, for example Anti-cheat systems at kernel level. The single player mode should also benefit from the anti-cheat measures in the future if the invasions are built in as a mixture of single player and multiplayer. In response to the negative feedback, they should now consider other solutions.
Stratton emphasized that Denuvo Anti-Cheat was not responsible for the recent performance and stability issues. Looking for the cause, they would have discovered bugs in the code in the skins and some memory management quirks. The performance problems are attributed to changes in the VRAM assignment, which are also reversed. These problems are to be eliminated with the next update.
Latest current video: Update 1 now available
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