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Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by wallscratch »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #36
GuB-42 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DRM calls are sprinkled everywhere inside the code, usually statically linked or even inlined. This is to make it harder for crackers to identify them. Here they put some in the zombie kill routine, but I don't think there is anything special about zombie kills. It could have been anything: picked up ammo, loading a map, pass a certain event, on a timer, during a save, all of the above, etc... I don't have a deep kno…

> Done well, there is little overhead, but some overzealous publishers do frequent lengthy checks, killing performance. I can imagine disaster if someone inlines the wrong function here. Definitely something that shouldn’t make it out the door, but amazing the difference 6 letters could make.

Why can inlining functions cause disasters? Just instruction cache misses, or other things as well?

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by dharmab »

feoren wrote: post #48
unnouinceput wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quote:"...but some overzealous publishers do frequent lengthy checks..." Since when do publishers have access to source code to do those checks themselves? Developers do that. And yes, I am aware that in this particular case, for RE:Village, the developer and publisher are the same.

I would think it very odd if publishers were not given the source code. If you were a publisher, would you want some small shop to be able to disappear off the face of the Earth, preventing you from ever doing even simple ports and patches?

That actually happens a lot. Mass Effect Legendary Edition is missing a DLC because the source code was lost. Many of Square Enix's hit games like the PS1 Final Fantasy games and the PS2 Kingdom Hearts have lost the original source code and the modern ports are either based on PC ports or are rebuilt from the shipped assets.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by tw04 »

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys.

When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it.

Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen.

I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.

Please stop punishing your fans :/

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by brobinson »

unnouinceput wrote: post #44
nonpolitical wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just that. I'm not an expert, but from what I read, some DRMs will encrypt assets and critical game logic and let them be decrypted in real time on a virtual machine so that they aren't directly extractable from memory.

Once is in memory, encrypted or not, it can be extracted, inspected and replaced (which is what a launcher crack style does).

Yes, but figuring this out can still take a long time. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory survived for over 400 days before being cracked.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by Scoundreller »

neom wrote: post #23
daenz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do some cracks rely on preventing the system clock from advancing?

In the late 90s early 2000s for some stuff you didn't need cracks, you could often literally just set the system clock back to 1990.

If there was a free trial, yes.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by Scoundreller »

Ygg2 wrote: post #27

One day, companies will realize releasing subpar product and charging for it is not the sanest business model.

Took the music industry a few decades to learn that suing your fans is bad for business. Now they have to deal with Spotify and Apple/Google/Amazon Music.

Like, you're pretty awful when you end up a target by the biggest companies of the world and even the scrappy upstart is double the market cap of your biggest member (Spotify is double Universal Music Group: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9529823/spotify-... )

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by sundvor »

tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

There's proof you're right, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798879

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by ChuckMcM »

This is typical. DRM doesn't deter or hurt pirates, and according to the EU[1] piracy doesn't hurt sales either, all that DRM does is to create support problems and hurt legitimate paying customers.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...

FIX: disambiguate 'it'

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by seer »

tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software / games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using.

But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “nauseous”. They might own multiple cars and expensive real estate, but still pirate their windows as a matter of principle.

I have a feeling a lot of kids brought up in eastern europe have similar sensibilities.

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