While I’m not really enthusiastic about having paying customers deal with more DRM, I can understand why companies do it. Most of their sales are done within the first few weeks of release and they’re hoping that it takes that long to crack the game (because it will get cracked) and make as much money for pirates get their hands on it. It sucks for everyone else but we wouldn’t need DRM of any type of people didn’t steal games.
If everyone were honest and had integrity, much of the annoyances we have to deal with now wouldn’t exist. Yet people insist on pushing the blame for human society problems on to other things.
I’ve heard this before. Eye is not supposed to register anything beyond 60 fps but I know for a fact that if i play a game at 100+ fps and one at 60 fps i can notice a large difference. Anything above 100 fps though i can’t tell a difference. I always try to shoot for 100 fps minimum. Anything less gives me headaches for some reason that i can’t fathom.
Could be image flicker. It’s easily noticed if you, for example, take a picture (using a camera) of something on your computer, especially with older monitors (like the bulky CRT models.) I’ve never had issues with 60fps myself, but every set of eyes is different.
Anyway, we can do nothing but hope Gearbox removes Denuvo from BL3 post-launch, since I highly doubt they’d do a Day 1 removal, as much as I’d wish it.
Some interesting responses to the question of frame rate and perception in this thread:
Short answer: it depends! However, the responses do point out certain key transitions, as well as the role hardware specs play into what you perceive.
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Yeah I hear the myth all the time about the 60 FPS thing, but for some reason changing from my crappy 60 fps monitors, and using 144 /165 HZ refresh rate monitors I notice a huge improvement in FPS games like Fort Nite, or PUBG compared to playing at 60 Hz, and i’ve noticed a huge gaming increase using higher quality monitors like ASUS over View Sonic at 144 FPS for some reason.
My main concern though is how Borderlands 3 will run when the CPU / Ram is under load from other tasks at the same time, with every game i’ve played without Denuvo I have absolutely no issues with, but Denuvo based games like Conan Exiles especially with 100+ Chests around I start to get the whole system slowing down and lagging at times because of the DRM ):.
If I run one game only the performance is better but still I shouldn’t be limited because developers choose to use DRM its a huge problem for paying customers.
If they are going to use DRM they can make their own form of DRM, Serial Key, or use a reputable DRM platform which Denuvo is not it’s basically like rogue code.
If Denuvo wanted a better reputation they could have launched their own gaming service like Steam / Epic Games where players can buy the software from their library / launcher, along with the DRM protections but they didn’t.
Oh look what I found…
Looks like they admit that “Denuvo” will already effect performance, my boxed copy better include a “Denuvo Warning Lable” and “Gamestop” better be able to tell me as a consumer asking these questions if not these are valid reasons for anyone who has issues to be allowed to get a refund, and deactivate their key.
People who are buying this game in a retail store are not told about the Denuvo Anti-Tamper.
Even though this may not effect everyone, or those who play a “Single Game / Run a single task” the rest of us who do have issues are being told to **** ourselves, and it just makes us paying customers wonder why we should continue to buy games and support developers using Denuvo, while we have to suffer the horrid impacts of it );.
Seems like all they have to do is remove Denuvo, and compile in 64 bit code with multicore and gpu support would solve the issue.
Or maybe they are just release this with bad performance at release so the thieves get a really awful copy of the game even with Denuvo :3?
Which is it O.o?
Incorrect. This is the direct quote from the article:
So if you have actual evidence that Denuvo is impacting on the performance of Borderlands 3 (and not any other / older title), you should start with that. Their stated aim is that it shouldn’t, and that you shouldn’t notice it.
Haha, ah. No. “compile in 64 bit code with multicore” is not how anything like that works, sorry.