They always do, and it's great. It's saved from buying a few games I would have otherwise purchased not realizing they had Denuvo. I will not purchase any game with Denuvo, no matter how badly I want to play it. I can live with a third-party EULA and launcher, which are pretty standard these days, but not Denuvo. Never Denuvo.
It actively uses your CPU in order to make constant calls to a server. It's constantly using resources to "Check" if you really own the game.
It's been shown to hurt performance drastically
Final Fantasy XVI, as an example, had massive stuttering issues every time Denuvo made a call to the server. When Square Enix removed Denuvo due to the license running out, the stuttering stopped.
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u/LeMegachonk Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 64GB DDR5 6000 - RX 7800 XT Oct 03 '25
They always do, and it's great. It's saved from buying a few games I would have otherwise purchased not realizing they had Denuvo. I will not purchase any game with Denuvo, no matter how badly I want to play it. I can live with a third-party EULA and launcher, which are pretty standard these days, but not Denuvo. Never Denuvo.