Capcom removes Denuvo from Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

Denuvo’s controversial anti-tamper technology has been removed from Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

On September 1st, Capcom released a new update for Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster to remove Denuvo from the game’s PC version. Capcom has not documented this change, though its impact can be seen on SteamDB. Now, the game’s Steam page makes no mention of Denuvo. Additionally, the game’s exe file is now almost 500MB smaller.

This removal comes almost a year after Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster launched on PC and consoles. The game has mostly positive reviews on Steam, and it runs well on both new and older gaming PCs. While not all Dead Rising fans are happy with Capcom’s changes to the game, it is a solid remaster.

Why do PC gamers hate Denuvo?

Denuvo is a controversial anti-tamper technology that is designed to prevent the piracy of PC games. While preventing piracy is a positive thing for developers, Denuvo’s technology has been found to negatively affect the performance of games. Additionally, it also interferes with the modding of many games, another factor that makes the technology unpopular. Most conversations about Denuvo online involve PC gamers expressing their dislike of the anti-tamper technology. With this in mind, we can see why removing Denuvo’s tech from games is seen as a popular move.

Last year, Denuvo was removed from several high-profile games, including Ghostwire Tokyo and The Callisto Protocol.

Has removing Denuvo boosted the PC performance of Dead Rising?

So far, there have been no reports of notable performance gains as a result of the game’s Denuvo removing update. Sadly, we do not have pre-patch performance data for this game, which prevents us from doing any comparative testing.

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