I know that finding this answer is insanely difficult (or, at least, I imagine it is) but I really am left wondering what exactly the DRM is doing while the game is active to have such a process/resource overhead.
Like, async tasks that are holding a thread hostage until it’s sync point? Trying to run huge hash tasks to ensure local storage of game files are “intact”? And seriously, 1.5 - 2GB of RAM utilization? I have to imagine that’s not actually memory in use, but is just holding a giant block of gobbledegook so its harder to reverse?
I’m not a software engineer, so I must be way off the mark, but from my small experience in the dev world as a QA person, the performance uplifts from removing DRM should not be this palpable… Right? I feel sorry for the actual devs who essentially just “find out” that their work is getting quite literally crippled by something that is universally hated by the consumer AND got cracked in 40 days of release.
I know that finding this answer is insanely difficult (or, at least, I imagine it is) but I really am left wondering what exactly the DRM is doing while the game is active to have such a process/resource overhead.
Like, async tasks that are holding a thread hostage until it’s sync point? Trying to run huge hash tasks to ensure local storage of game files are “intact”? And seriously, 1.5 - 2GB of RAM utilization? I have to imagine that’s not actually memory in use, but is just holding a giant block of gobbledegook so its harder to reverse?
I’m not a software engineer, so I must be way off the mark, but from my small experience in the dev world as a QA person, the performance uplifts from removing DRM should not be this palpable… Right? I feel sorry for the actual devs who essentially just “find out” that their work is getting quite literally crippled by something that is universally hated by the consumer AND got cracked in 40 days of release.