00:00It's recently been confirmed that Crimson Desert will include the controversial anti-piracy
00:04tech Denuvo, which has PC gamers worried about performance. However, Pearl Abyss says not
00:09to worry as they had the same tech enabled within the recent previews.
00:12The benchmark videos and performance specs we released were all created with the exact
00:16same implementation of Denuvo that is in the launch build, a Pearl Abyss representative
00:20told Forbes' Paul Tassi. This includes the performance videos by Digital Foundry. It's
00:25important that reviewers and benchmarkers' experience with the game is ultimately representative
00:29of the final consumer's experience.
00:31The Digital Foundry video being referenced is likely the one published on February 28th,
00:35which shows the game running at ultra settings in native 4K at mainly 60fps on a Radeon RX
00:407900 XTX. That graphics card is no slouch, but it's over three years old at this point,
00:46and still a few steps behind Nvidia's ultra-high-end GPUs, so hopefully this is a good sign for scalability
00:51on PC.
00:52Some PC gamers despise Denuvo purely in principle, but the majority fear the effect the DRM system
00:57can have on performance. While Denuvo doesn't universally degrade performance, it happens
01:02often enough that the DRM company itself has been forced to acknowledge the issues. Some
01:06players will still see that Denuvo anti-tamper badge on Steam as a flashing do not buy signal,
01:11but it's at least good to hear the devs commit to showing off the game in the state it'll
01:14be in when players get a hold of it. Will you be picking up Crimson Desert at launch?
01:18Well, please.
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