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Major Blow to Denuvo Because Pirates Just Ran Out of Games to Bypass as of April 2026 (respawnfirst.com)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

What is hv bypass?

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's the bypass in question that falsifies validation data to the Denuvo DRM. It runs under the OS (Windows in this case), which gives it more permissions than your operating system itself. You have to disable a significant amount of your security, reboot, run your game with the HV bypass, reenable your security, reboot, and then you can use your PC normally again. Even if you trust the HV bypass software (and I don't personally think that's a good idea), you are still opening your machine up to attack. If you are perfect in your actions and very cautious you can minimize the risk, but slipping up could leave your PC compromised. It's just too much risk.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    On my last computer I downloaded the Harry Potter game and it was cracked by Empress, a vicious anti-trans right-wing Russian woman. I just hung out in a telegram when the game was released and man the toxic shit she spewed was nasty. Proper fking nasty.

    And I purposefully disabled the security on my PC and installed something she made.

    Yes it was stupid, but I was lonely and really nostalgic for Hogwarts and felt less like donating actual money to a billionaire trans-hater than possibly giving a Russian trans-hater access to my machine.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In real life, she is probably a gay male accountant from Ohio. I feel like people in these situations go out of their way to create alternate identities.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think it is fine if you install the games on a PC that

    • Doesnt contain any personal data and is only for playing PC games

    • Is never connected to a network, public or private (always offline)

    Otherwise I wouldn't recommend ever installing HyperVisor, and if you do, wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. Maybe even better, wipe the drive, destroy it, and then replace it with a new drive. That is the best way to know for certain there is no security compromise on the drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    In simpler terms you need to have an entirely dedicated isolated system to play these games on, at which point the economical option is undoubtedly just to buy the damn game...

    Computers not connected to the internet are almost entirely useless for anything else, and computers that are connected to the internet are inevitably logged into to services, and being logged in to something automatically means there's personal data on it. If only credentials and authentication cookies.

    Just stay away from this. Get a console of Denuvo freaks you out, or just stay away from these games untill they patch denuvo out, like you should anyway. The only reason they keep using Denuvo is that they aren't adequately punished for doing so. Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    In simpler terms you need to have an entirely dedicated isolated system to play these games on

    This. I happen to have a second system cobbled together out of my older PC parts, and it's kind of oxymoronic to use for HV-bypass because it's hooked up to a 4k TV and struggles to keep up with these new releases.

    The main function of this secondary PC has become to test improvements to upscaling and frame generation (i.e. 1080p 30Hz upscaled/framegenned to 4k 60Hz), which has been fun in its own right, but is faaar from ideal.

    That being said, the FSR4 INT8 modded dll running on RDNA2 + Lossless Scaling variable FG is incredibly impressive for this task. Pragmata can be played on this TV relatively smoothly, and with passable amounts of artifacting. I certainly can't suggest this setup as a good experience for anyone, though.

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