14 DAY TRIAL // A brand new report has appeared online concerning the already infamous Denuvo digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy software that's used by recent titles like Lords of the Fallen or Dragon Age: Inquisition, as after a technical analysis it seems that the program takes a heavy toll on solid state drives (SSDs) in a computer.
Denuvo comes from DRM veterans that worked on infamous programs like SecuROM or Starforce and it's already been employed by a few recent big-budget games, such as Lords of the Fallen and even the recent Dragon Age: Inquisition. Besides being apparently unbreakable, as it hasn't been cracked by video game pirates just yet, it has quite a few downsides.
Among them, according to a report from Gamemag, is the fact that the software does a phenomenal number of read and write transfers of data from the hard drive to the RAM and back again. In just one hour, it did around 150,000 such operations, which is 10,000 times more than normal.
While this doesn't have that big of an impact on regular hard disk drives, if the game is installed onto a solid state drive, it can be disastrous, as those drives can only handle a certain number of such operations during their lifecycle.
As of yet, the report hasn't been confirmed, so it's unclear just how big an impact running a Denuvo-protected game on an SSD has.
