Denuvo DRM destroying hard drives!
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Hey guys, sorry for resurrecting this post from the grave, but I just finished a chat with Crucial tech support about Dragon Age: Inquisition's poor loading times. I bought one of their SSDs, and was disappointed that DA: I did not load noticeably faster, and I also found out some really bad news.
Here's a quote from Charles, from the Crucial tech support team:
"Essentially the DRM software they use with this program does software encryption on any drive it runs with, it can drastically increase load times, as well as wear out SSDs."
He also mentioned it was Denuvo, in particular.
I just wanted to let the devs know about this issue, and that apparently Crucial techs are taking it very seriously.
There is a bit of good news, however! You may have a chance to repair the damage, if you're using a Crucial drive, but idling in the BIOS overnight. This allows Crucial's garbage collection to repair things.
The assertion made in the subject of this thread is flat out not true.
Last but not least, the team addressed the SSD rumors and claimed that they were false.
“Completely wrong rumor which is repeated over and over although many 3rd party tests (as well as we) state that our solution does not perform read / write operations to the HDD (hence we have no negative impact on the lifetime of SSDs or any other hardware component).”
If your have any evidence to back up your claims to the contrary, provide it.
Otherwise, stop spreading old nonsense for which you have ZERO proof.
DA:I in my SSD works wonders. Fast loading times, so far so good. Installed the game in SSD since game release and no crash to desktops.
Well in my case I found that running the game drastically increased the mount of SSD bytes written. Over 2 years of use I had gotten to just over 6TB of usage. One playthrough of Inquisition and that figure went up to over 9.5TB.
On my second playthrough I kept the executable on my HDD, and deep linked the main chunk of the game onto my SSD so I'd still have fast loading times. It has now reached 10.5TB and I've just reached Skyhold on my 3rd playthrough.
Lucky I have a Samsung 830. not all drives are as hard wearing.
@Deders1980 wrote:
Well in my case I found that running the game drastically increased the mount of SSD bytes written. Over 2 years of use I had gotten to just over 6TB of usage. One playthrough of Inquisition and that figure went up to over 9.5TB.
On my second playthrough I kept the executable on my HDD, and deep linked the main chunk of the game onto my SSD so I'd still have fast loading times. It has now reached 10.5TB and I've just reached Skyhold on my 3rd playthrough.
Lucky I have a Samsung 830. not all drives are as hard wearing.@DeltaAgent26 wrote something about that here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/PC-Ongoing-investigation-poor-performance-crashes-resource/td-p/4126271
I believe there was a longer guide on SSD optimization but I can't seem to find it.
Denuvo rewrites the executable in the RAM, not on the drive. Windows doesn't allow active applications to be rewritten on a drive.
