Denuvo anti-tamper protection has recently been struggling with a surge of game cracks appearing almost immediately after, and sometimes even before, the launch of the latest AAA games. In extreme cases, such as with Silent Hill: Townfall, cracks have appeared days before the official release during the pre-release period. However, this trend seems to be changing. With the release of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, the game is reportedly resisting a classical hypervisor-based workaround that was previously used to bypass the company's anti-piracy measures in many new game titles. As readers might recall, this racing game launched on October 6, but as of today, no successful bypass using the established method has emerged.
The hypervisor workaround takes advantage of virtualization technology that operates below Windows, allowing it to interfere with how a protected game detects certain system features without directly removing Denuvo's checks from its executable. Its relative simplicity helped make it a practical alternative to more labor-intensive cracking methods, with reports attributing successful bypasses across more than 60 games to this approach. The latest development suggests that the technique may no longer work as reliably against newer implementations of Denuvo.[](https://www.techpowerup.com/img/FELlLpQH9ne2ddm9.jpg)Read full story
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