A Hypervisor bypass came out recently, and since then a lot of Denuvo games from years past have been released by a scene group known as DenuvOwO (I think, either that or DenuvOwO is the name of the crack).
Much more reliable than the Empress cracks in their time as these seem to work for every denuvo game instead of being on a case-by-case basis.
Unfortunately only Windows compatibility for now as it requires bypassing some kernel-level features and drivers. So I haven’t tested these cracks myself. You could, by all accounts, prepare a dual-boot partition with Windows in it. Probably. (Hoping it doesn’t break GRUB or something).
Usually the release comes with a script that you have to run once/every time you want to launch the game, restart your computer, then run the game through 'hypervisor_launcher.exe". Then once you exit the game it reverts the changes it did to your computer.
I wouldn’t be able to go into the details but it does make some pretty unrecommended changes to how Windows handle things, including installing unsigned drivers, so it’s safer that it reverts these changes, even if you have to reapply the patch and restart your computer every time you want to play the game.
The process is a bit involved but at least Denuvo has been cracked, and I think that’s a big victory and is probably making the parent company sweat lol.
Interestingly it seems that for Steam Denuvo games on Linux, because of the Steam Deck popularity, it just phones home to a denuvo server to authenticate the license so you can play denuvo games. So I wonder if you could somehow fake that call or spoof the info it sends so that it thinks you are simply reinstalling the game on the same device. It’s probably been attempted tbh but I remember this used to be a cracking method for some games back in the day.
It’s a bypass, not a crack. A real crack is a dream scenario.
I’m not letting hyper visor onto my machine.
A real crack has been achieved by Voices38. It took him 2 weeks to crack RE9 and apparently that also makes it way easier to crack past denuvo protections as well because his tool already broke the newest version of it.
I assume we will see a lot of cracks soon.
I’m looking forward to seeing more about that. I know that OP’s hypervisor is not that though.
It really is amazing what people are capable of, even without the motive of profit.
Usually the release comes with a script that you have to run once/every time you want to launch the game, restart your computer, then run the game through 'hypervisor_launcher.exe". Then once you exit the game it reverts the changes it did to your computer.
Close. It comes with a script to disable or re-enable the security features that have to be turned off for the bypass to work. So you are supposed to run the script to disable the security features. After that you can launch the game with the hypervisor-launcher.exe file. Once you are done playing you should run the script again to re-enable the security features.
It is a bypass and not a crack since it doesn’t remove denuvo and just uses virtualisation trickery to make it think the game is legit. But denuvo is still being cracked. There is this guy called voices38. He cracked Resident Evil Requiem a few days ago. It’s good that both options exist.
Voices38 also said that cracking denuvo games from the past is going to be way easier now because the 2026, and therefore most advanced version of denuvo has been cracked.
