Assassin's creed origins wreaks havoc on the processor for abusing drm

During the last few hours reports are emerging that Assassin's Creed Origins is an absolute vampire in terms of processor performance, initially this was blamed on poor optimization by Ubisoft, but it appears not to be so after the crackers have been analyzing the game in an attempt to break its DRM. These crackers have discovered that Ubisoft has superimposed VMProtect on top of Denuvo.

Ubisoft has put VMProtect to protect Denuvo in Assassin's Creed Origins

VMProtect is a software designed specifically to avoid investment and cracking, crackers believe that it is being used in Denuvo files to protect the latter, which in turn protects the video game. A practice that seems abusive but has worked, Assassin's Creed Origins is the first AAA title in recent releases that has not been deciphered a few hours after its release.

On the other hand, users report that Assassin's Creed Origins is putting its processor to 100% use, which hampers the performance of the graphics card, making it less FPS than it should be. Others claim that Denuvo and VMProtect consume approximately 30-40% of total CPU resources, even on high-end systems.

VMProtect software is used to protect code by running it on a virtual machine that uses a non-standard architecture. The data is passed between him and Denuvo, while other intrusive features include random generation of serial numbers and unique command sets for each individual protected file. Something that is working, but at the expense of performance.

We therefore have a complicated scenario in which Ubisoft has protection that is definitely working, even if it is detrimental to performance. Worst of all, if it works, the rest of the developers could start using similar practices to avoid cracking their games.

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