By Gerald Lynch
The gorgeous new open-world Assassin’s Creed Origins, set in a beautifully realised ancient Egypt, would be a demanding game for PC hardware to run at the best of times. But it seems that stringent anti-piracy measures may be adding an additional, substantial strain on machines.
Following reports of excessive CPU load from the new game, TorrentFreak spoke with game cracker (read: piracy enabler) Voksi, who found some interesting implementation of anti-piracy DRM (digital rights management) tools in Origins.
It appears that Origins is employing not one, but two DRM tools. The first is the often used Denuvo, which has been reasonably easy to crack for pirates in the past. As an added defensive measure, Voksi claims that VMProtect, another anti-piracy tool, has also been used.
It’s this dual-set up that’s making gamer’s computers work incredibly hard when running the game. VMProtect works by running code in a virtual machine on your system, using non-standard architecture to secure the files that would make the game vulnerable to pirates.
Virtual overheads
This virtual machine appears to be resulting in even powerful processors being overloaded, with some players reporting its leading to Windows’ dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” crash as their CPUs overheat just a …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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