I have stacks of 1-1.5 tb sd cards in a holder on my steam deck case because I can never delete a game but I don't have time to play them either.

Playing it on a Windows VM on Linux with your GPU passed through is probably the safest way to play these hypervisor bypass games.

That shit does not run on Linux

Do you mean Denuvo games in general? Because that's not true

I don't think the situation is practically any worse than before for piracy if you just ignore these bypasses. It's not like there was a huge crowd of crackers ready to take on denuvo before they were pushed out by these bypasses. Proper cracks still depend on basically just that one guy.

Games are already a security nightmare. Apex had an RCE in a game with fucking kernel level anticheat.

Fucking think about that.

If you care about privacy or security you should've started playing games in a VM with pass through years ago.

If it doesn't run in a VM it doesn't get played.

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.

Neither are okay with me; I don't play games with Denuvo.

yeah

Don't forget the €8000 gaming chair, and €4000 custom made in-ear headphones.