

Related: Square Enix, What Is Going On With The Nier PC Ports? Nier Automata has kept Denuvo longer than most titles, although Denuvo certainly wasn't preventing the game from appearing on pirate torrents after four years.

This can take as little as a few weeks as in the case of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, which had its Denuvo removed less than four weeks after arrival. Unfortunately, Denuvo is perhaps the most common anti-piracy software found on major releases, with the company charging a subscription-based fee for its use.īecause of the subscription-based model, most games eventually remove Denuvo after hackers find a way to bypass it. On higher-end systems, the reduction isn’t noticeable, but for low-end machines, Denuno can be the difference between a solid and choppy frame rate. This is certainly good news for PC Automata players, but it likely won’t be enough to solve the game’s ongoing performance issues.ĭenuvo software is known to reduce performance for PC games. Just hours ago, Square Enix released an update for Nier Automata that removed its Denuvo anti-tamper software, more than four years after the original release.
