First 4 are disabled on unsupported systems anyway (4 is also sometimes disabled to squeeze out gaming performance), but 5 is scary as hell.

I don’t see how this is much worse than running Denuvo malware to begin with. I treat my windows gaming partition as a disposable DMZ anyway.

DRM, game launchers and generally 3/4 of modern software overall are a security threat anyway.

That said, the best solution for all this problems is to never buy, pirate or play any DRMed crap. Let them choke on their greedy tech.

I can't help but wonder, shouldn't this all be possible on Linux without needing to install a hacked hypervisor? At most you would need a kernel patch, but since Denuvo operates through Wine, maybe an entirely userland solution would be possible too.

WTH I've known HSMs easier to bypass. Just to prevent people from playing a game, it's ridiculous.

My gaming PC has no personally-identifiable information whatsoever and can be purged freely at a moment's notice.

Checkmate.

There will inevitably be some YouTube video that explains how to do all of this, and it will be followed without question by thousands of 12 year olds who don’t understand the security implications. They just want to play the new shiny game, and their parents told them they’d only buy the game if they got all A’s on their report card. So now their computer is orders of magnitude less secure (and likely running some mining/botnet in the background) because they wanted the game for free. This is just going to be the current generation’s version of “accidentally nuked the family computer with LimeWire downloads.”

It's gonna be really funny if the meta becomes Windows users booting into Linux just to boot a Single-GPU passthru Windows VM to play triple A's without getting pwned lol

Thanks for reminding me about why I have been exclusively playing older games or games from my backlog. Seriously with the prices of video games it's not worth it to buy them anymore let alone have the hardware to even play them. PC gaming sounds like a nightmare where you have to do all this crazy nonsense just to play some games at slightly better performance or if you are poor like me. I have long since stopped at pirating normal PC games though personally and have been pirating ROMs instead for emulators or buying from GOG. Much easier and you have like 4 decades worth of content just to play through. I say just let the modern gaming industry rot and toil. Play some Indie games instead like Deltarune or Silksong or I am your beast. Do anything but not support this dumb market of triple A games where they cost almost a hundred dollars now and require super computers hooked up to your actual computer to run.

Never tried, but what about nested vm's ? It should be possible to have a normal secure vm, with a 'compromised' hp/vm running microslop running. In theory I guess..

100% this. If you find a nice, trusted source, you’ll play some really hard to get games.

But one mistake and your shit isn’t yours anymore.

If someone just has System for gaming only, is there really a risk? Shunning they only sign into game clients.

Sounds like they painted themselves into a DRM corner. More like a ledge. Now the only option is to jump.

Can these be run on Linux?

Just curious, does the crack work on Linux? Presumably you wouldn't have to do the same things, assuming it works at all.

Exactly. Don’t know when I last got a new game… I think it was that Hogwarts game