In the seven years since that vision, Empress has become arguably the most powerful breaker of digital rights management software in the world. Turning deeper inward, she says, she soon entered “the ‘ZONE,’ which allows me to SEE MORE into everything.” The chains broke. As she focused, she began to see “what every number meant ‘universally,’’’ she says. It was anti-piracy software, she realized. Chains made up of numbers wrapped around the video game Dark Souls 2. I did notice two or three additional stutters during my 10-minute playthrough in the retail/digital version, but that’s within the margin of error.Īnd that is that.If you ask Empress what got her started breaking DRM, she says it was a dream she had one night in 2014.

Even when roaming the city at high speeds (and causing havoc), our system was able to maintain a smooth gameplay experience.Īs the graphs showcase, there is also no difference at all between the retail/digital version and the cracked/pirated version. Without Ray Tracing, we were able to get a constant 60fps experience on both versions. Our guess is that our memory bandwidth/frequency are limiting these Ray Tracing effects (as both our CPU and GPU were not stressed at all). While we had a healthy average framerate (71fps), we saw some drops to the 50s. With Ray Tracing enabled, our system had trouble hitting constant 60fps. Since these DRMs are mainly affecting the game’s CPU performance, we’ve decided to select Ultra settings and benchmark these two versions at 1080p with DLSS Quality. As such, we wondered whether this was also the case with Watch Dogs Legion. Nevertheless, Resident Evil Village and Assassin’s Creed Origins performed better when they were cracked. What this means is that they are, most likely, running in the background. Now as we’ve stated and before, the EMPRESS crack is most likely bypassing the five DRM protection systems. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 497.29 driver. Therefore, we went ahead and benchmarked both of them.įor these benchmarks, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 3080.

As such, we were curious whether the pirated version performed better than the retail/digital version. Alongside Denuvo, Ubisoft used four additional DRM protections.

As we informed you a couple of days ago, EMPRESS was able to crack Watch Dogs Legion which was using Denuvo V10.

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