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.
Denuvo rewrites the executable in the RAM, not on the drive. Windows doesn't allow active applications to be rewritten on a drive.
