
I hold two degrees: a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Games Development. I also spent the first six years after leaving university as a professional game designer working with Disney, Games Workshop, 20th Century Fox, and Vivendi.

Before that I spent nearly 15 years working at as a writer and editor.

I've been working at PCMag since November 2016, covering all areas of technology and video game news. On older CPUs the performance improvement should be even higher, and if Hyper-Threading is disabled, the difference between the two versions jumped as high as 30 fps. What they discovered was a significant performance improvement.Īt the highest settings running at 1080p there was a small improvement in performance, but switching to Lowest settings saw the frame rate jump by between 8-17 fps compared to the Denuvo-protected version. They used a PC running a Core i9 9900K,16GB of DDR4 RAM (3,600Mhz), a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, and Windows 10 64-bit. The update on Steam also added an improved shadow denoiser, upgraded Nvidia DLSS, and multiplayer updates, but no CPU or memory performance improvements were noted.įor some reason, publisher Square Enix rolled back the update, but DSOG managed to download and benchmark the Steam version of the game (Opens in a new window) with Denuvo removed. Some PC games use anti-tamper tech to help prevent piracy, but it can come with a serious performance hit as Shadow of the Tomb Raider has just revealed.Īs DSOG reports (Opens in a new window), last week Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics decided to remove Denuvo's digital-rights management (DRM) and anti-tamper technology from Shadow of the Tomb Raider on PC.
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