Denuvo’s anti-cheat solution is now integrated into Steamworks. This was announced by the Austrian company Irdeto, which is developing Denuvo. The integration with Steamworks makes it easier for developers of Steam games to integrate Denuvo Anti-Cheat into their titles. The tool is suitable for multiplayer games and can defend against aimbots, wallhacks and other unwanted hacks.

Denuvo also collects Anti-Cheat Information from developer Irdeto Information on how the operating system interacts with the game. This information is forwarded to servers, on which possible cheats are then recognized. Steamworks is a collection of tools developed by Valve itself to help developers configure and operate their game on Steam. This includes payment options, DRM options and cloud game saves.

According to Denuvo, the integration of the anti-cheat tool does not require any changes to the game source code. In addition, the solution has no effect on the performance of the video game, writes Irdeto. Denuvo’s anti-tamper solution was repeatedly suspected of impairing the performance of protected games.

Anti-Cheat and Anti-Tamper This copy protection solution is called Denuvo Anti-Tamper and is basically independent of Denuvo Anti-Cheat. Anti-Tamper is designed to make pirated video games more difficult by placing random test queries in the program code of video games. The results of this DRM tool have recently been mixed – it was cracked quite quickly in many current titles.

Denuvo Anti-Cheat, on the other hand, is a comparatively new program. It started with the first person shooter “Doom Eternal”, the middle 2020 came onto the market. The Denuvo technology promptly caused anger among the players who bombarded “Doom Eternal” with negative reviews.

The main criticism was that Denuvo Anti-Cheat was also active for the single player campaign that the deep system integration of the Denuvo software is a security risk and that the performance of the graphically opulent shooter suffers. Developer id Software decided to remove the anti-cheat tool in a patch.

(dahe)