all done in user space, you just have to disable this security feature preventing user space programs from calling these privileged cpu instructions 😅

I love the Internet's naming schemes. Some folk don't like it but with the amount of genderqueer and furry folk maintaining fundamental internet services you could say that we're vital in keeping the world the bigots know running. They'll have no choice but to accept the catfaces! 😺

and do what then? If you prevent games from running on linux, it means that piracy is the only viable way of playing them, leading to mass proliferaton of bypass techniques.

That would only do anything in new releases or updates for games where the dev is still paying for deuvo. Or maybe a dev could seek compensation for 'losses' of sales due to exploited denuvo version in the form of money or extended end date.

Calma homie
Denuvo was indeed basically unbeatable until Voices38 started cracking and MKdev released the hypervisor about a year ago.

The author definitely meant the period before this year and they’re right; before the great return of Denuvo cracking and hypervisor cracks last year, very popular games like Persona 5 Royal and Blackmyth Wukong had no cracks and despite also being the 2 games with the worst offline activation consistency.

Hypervisor cracks were (or even are) infamous because they’re hard to set up, have to be set up per game (last I heard), aren’t perfectly stable since the live patch the kernel, and mostly because they didn’t meet user expectations. An important point though: hypervisor cracks were available exclusively for Windows.

Or at least that was the case until the “Linux breakthrough” was revealed yesterday, which gives Linux the ability to run Hypervisor cracks, and with modern CPUs, you can run the hypervisor cracks without even using a hypervisor.

Support for Linux has to be implemented in the cracks themselves too, though I did read that DenuvOwO (de facto THE hypervisor cracking team) is backporting support to all previous releases :D.

Of course nothing beats actual cracks but then again hypervisor cracks weren’t support to replace them, they’re supposed to ruin denuvo’s reputation by making games pirateable on day 1 of releasing. This will have a bigger effect now that the cracks are with tinkerers (Linux users) who wouldn’t mind a little setting-up to play their games.

They literally show half a dozen pictures of denuvo games running on Arch in the article. Several of the top posts on r/crackwatch (the subreddit mentioned in the article) are about the Linux denuvo workaround.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/1uw9y89/were_bringing_you_the_year_of_the_linux_desktop/)

Could anyone explain what a "hypervisor crack" is in this context? I'm very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.

Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it's not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?

Hey there.

No, it is not easily removed within days. I'm more impressed than most by Voices, but he has cracked four games released in 2026 so far.

Is this just an ad?

It is news. Did you know this before my post? If not, we call this 'learning something from news'

Within days; thanks to voices38’s effort.
Easily? Absolutely not.

It's not removed, it's a hypervisor workaround. And until now, these largely had issues running on Linux

Not to mention pirates do increase game visibility, which is free advertising. And pirates play games that they wouldn't otherwise buy.

Small percentage, sure. But it's a factor.

They're not denuvo games but I tried CO:E33 and BG3 because they were big and popular. I eventually bought both. I would have never tried or bought them otherwise, the price tag was just too great to bother.

It's very difficult to prove either way. There's also the factor of making a big deal of removing Denuvo post release; if sales were lost due to its inclusion, does it fully recoup those? Does it actually result in more total sales?

Whether it actually causes measurably more sales, my thoughts are that if paying customers are treated worse than pirates, then piracy is justified, so including Denuvo inherently justifies pirating the game to me.

Didn't buy the 2nd Doom (2016) due to Denuvo. I enjoyed the first (modern) Doom and apprecitated how well it ran but I've not looked back to see if it was removed (too late now, my standards are even higher now).

You can check it from the source themselves

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=159989

Oh how fun, you shared the same comment on two posts. Here's the same reply I left on your other one:

Hi there!

I'm the author. Not only have I chatted to Voices, but I did an AMA with Dodi, organized the same with FitGirl (which didn't actually happen), and even chatted to Empress. Which...wasn't very fun. I've interviewed KaOs and also the gentleman behind Ghost eShop for jailbroken Switches. This is just to say I know the scene, and I know the people.

Denuvo has been almost universally cracked since the start of this year, author sounds pretty out of date to be talking as if this is a recent development.

Seems there was about 20 games released this year with Denuvo. Voices has changed the scene a lot, but he can only do so much. Now he's using A.I. to help with his process this is speeding up a ton, but he cannot possibly keep up with 'demand' as it were. I found four he's done, for 2026 releases:

• Resident Evil Requiem (February 2026)
• PRAGMATA (April 2026)
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (May 2026)
• 007 First Light (May 2026)

It certainly hasn't been "universally cracked". It will get quicker, but it is still an effort. One game every two weeks or so at the moment.

universally cracked

This is not only a stretch, it isn't true. The fun thing is that he has cracked 2026's build, and then their updated build, then a day one release. From a technical POV, it is super interesting to see.

Could, but that might be a hard sell to publishers with the popularity of deck, machine, steam OS, and just Linux rising popularity lately in general. Still a minority of the gaming market for sure but growing.

Then I'll jump to piracy again, it is a net loss for companies and I save money.

Tbh, if you are already able to bypass their whole protection, this is just a few more syscalls to hook into - proton already does that work anyways because windows syscalls don't mean anything to linux boxes.

Also, doing so would mean that piracy is the only way to play those games on linux, leading to mass proliferation of bypass techniques.

It probably means dominance in terms of how it "won" against piracy by being so difficult to bypass on games that had it that very few people knew how to do it. And even then, it took a lot of time and hard work to the point where some of them gave up.

Read more than the headline and you'll have less questions.

Literally the first paragraph in the article answers your question.