Resident Evil Village PC version crack appears to fix performance issues – Gaming – News

A new crack for the PC version of Resident Evil Village, it seems that the performance issues that occur when killing zombies, for example. The crackmaker claims that developer Capcom and Denuvo’s copy protections were the problem.

“All ingame stutters like killing a zombie have been fixed because Capcoms entry points have been taken out so most of their functions will never run again,” crack maker Empress tells the crack’s .nfo. “What makes it worse is that Capcoms drm was completely hidden in Denuvo’s vm, which made things even slower.”

The problems with the stutter were already fixed around the release release raised by Digital Foundry, among others, who explained it in a video. These also indicate significant performance issues when the player encounters the witches, who are surrounded by a swarm of bats. Those performance issues also seem to have been resolved.

Several parties have put it to the test and claim that the crack does indeed improve performance. Those are both channels on YouTube, as John Papadopoulos van Dark Side of Gaming.

Crack seems to introduce another problem

A downside of the crack seems to be that certain animations, in which the drm presumably performs its checks, seem to have been removed completely. Commenters on a piracy website point to a other comparison video where one of the witches grabs the player character in all kinds of ways in the regular version and mainly stares at the player in the cracked version. It is not known how many animations are missing. Note that the performance in that video cannot simply be compared because the video maker uses two different gpu driver versions.

That Denuvo and other copy protections negatively affect the performance of the games they protect is not new. An extensive benchmarksessie of the YouTube channel Overlord Gaming, for example, already showed this in 2018.

That channel also noted that a crack won’t necessarily improve a game’s performance, while a developer’s own removal of Denuvo has a much higher chance of doing so. Resident Evil Village and Empress’s crack seem to be the exception, with the snag in the form of the missing animations. Perhaps Capcom now has the crack, removes the copy protection itself, which happens more often with Denuvo.

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