Recently, it was reported that the Denuvo V10 encryption of "Watchdog: Legion" was broken by the foreign cracking organization EMPRESS. There have been many previous examples of games that have performed better than the genuine version after the D encryption was breached, and foreign media DSOGaming has also conducted similar tests on "Watchdog: Legion" this time.
The full text of the test is as follows:
In this test, we used the Intel i9 9900K, 16GB DDR4 3800Mhz and NVIDIA RTX 3080, the operating system is Windows 10 64-bit, and the graphics driver is GeForce 497.29.
As mentioned before, EMPRESS should bypass the five-layer DRM protection system. In other words, it is likely to run continuously in the background. However, Resident Evil 8 and Assassin's Creed: Origins performed better than the original after unencrypted, and it is not known whether Watch Dogs: Legion had a similar situation.
Since DRM mainly affects the CPU performance of the game, we directly use the ultimate picture quality setting to test the genuine and unencrypted versions in the state of 1080p plus DLSS.
With light tracking enabled, our computer failed to reach 60fps stably. Although the average frame rate is good (71fps), it sometimes falls into the 50 range. Guess what should be that memory bandwidth/frequency limits the light chase effect (CPU and graphics card are completely untested).
After turning off the light chase, both the genuine and unencrypted versions of the game can be stably maintained at 60fps, and the experience has always been smooth even when wandering (and causing chaos) in the city.
As you can see from the figure, there is no significant difference between the two versions, and the performance is similar. The genuine version has appeared two or three times during the ten-minute game, but this is within the margin of error.
Testing revealed that, unlike Resident Evil 8 and Assassin's Creed: Origins, Watch Dogs: Legion did not receive a performance boost after the D encryption was breached.