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Around a month ago, Capcom updated Resident Evil 4 Remake to remove the Denuvo DRM from the game... Only for it to be replaced by yet another DRM in its place, Enigma.

Since the Enigma DRM update, many users were keen enough to notice that the performance for the game had significantly dropped, even compared to that of the original Denuvo DRM version, with some people even reporting up to a 40% drop in performance with the Enigma DRM version of the game, although such a huge performance drop varies from hardware to hardware, with the culprit being that the drops occurred mostly when any kind of enemy AI was being called into the game. With that, overall it could end up being a 10% drop on average.

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Due to the hit in performance, many users opted to use the old EXE of the game, as, even when it sounds crazy, the Denuvo DRM performed better that the updated EXE with the Enigma DRM, and some even opted to just use the cracked EXE of the game to completely get rid of any kind of DRM that could negatively impact performance.

Thankfully, that didn't last long, as yesterday Capcom updated RE4R yet again, but this time, instead of throwing another DRM surprise, they opted to instead remove any trace of DRM within the game's executable, making the game finally DRM-free, solving the performance issues that players were experiencing during the last month.

The update for RE4R is now live on Steam.

Resident Evil 4 Remake on Steam
Resident Evil 4 Remake Update DB

 

[Kioku]

DRM on games is just ironic... Took em long enough

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Wow, maybe I'll finally buy the game and give it a try. Hope is more fun than the original 20 years ago. Maybe I'm just not convinced it's the best of the sereies.

 

[Blythe93]

they opted to instead remove any trace of DRM within the game's executable, making the game finally DRM-free

Amen to that.

 

[Viri]

That time when they put DRM into Resident Evil Revelations out of no where, despite the game being on Steam without DRM for over a decade.

They removed it, but that was some bull shit, since I already owned the game. Shit like that should be illegal. lol

All this dumb effort, just to make sure someone doesn't mod their game, and have a big tiddy Ashley mod, or Leon with a huge cock.

 

[Nakamichi]

Goooood, how i hate modern DRM. If you actually pay for a game you always get a worse-performing version of it.
Now theres one even worse than Denuvo to be excited for.

.. Glad they removed it tho. For real.

 

[ZeroT21]

I really don't care if it has DRM or not, but it shouldn't hamper performance

 

[Nakamichi]

I really don't care if it has DRM or not, but it shouldn't hamper performance

the only DRM that actually does something and a random 13 year old cant make into an offline-version with simple github tools... HURTS performance.
Steam DRM by itself may as well be DRM-free with as little protection as that affords anyone.

 

[Reploid]

Maybe this would teach them a lesson. At our expense. Dunno what should happened to make mainline entries less of a drag tho

 

[Nakamichi]

Maybe this would teach them a lesson. At our expense. Dunno what should happened to make mainline entries less of a drag tho

or give us the ORIGINAL drag at least, remember RE-master number 3? where they cut a whole section? and didnt even give us the iconic line at the end??

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! SHENNANIGANS!! CAPCOM STOP RUINING MY CHILDHOOD!!

 

[NinStar]

Good, I wouldn't mind DRM nearly as much if most publishers removed it a few months after the original release.

Although this one took 3 fucking years and they only did it because people complained about it and they now have a new game to sell, if it wasn't for those factors combined they probably wouldn't even bother removing the DRM.

 

[hippy dave]

All this dumb effort, just to make sure someone doesn't mod their game, and have a big tiddy Ashley mod, or Leon with a huge cock.

But can you have big tiddy Leon or Ashley with a huge cock? Asking for a friend.

 

[Skelletonike]

Maybe this would teach them a lesson. At our expense. Dunno what should happened to make mainline entries less of a drag tho

It only teaches them that Denuvo is better.
Regardless, the game is now roughly 2 years old so it's already redundant, I do believe it makes sense during the first months or year of a game being released since that's when most sales are made.

 

[onibaku]

Does anyone know if REFramework works with the drm-free update? I've been holding off on updating (still on Denuvo version of the game). But I assume the drm-free version would run better overall.

 

[SDA]

Took long enough for Capcom to do the right thing.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Resident Evil 4 Remake is just worse than the original - it made characters uglier than the original, and it made the script less funny and raunchy and overall inferior. Trash game.

Sure, removing stupid DRM is fantastic, and every game should have its DRM removed after the first year or two of sales - but just don't buy this game...really, it seems most of these RE Remakes are worse than their originals, due to missing content, less appealing character models, and/or needless rewriting of scripts.

 

[Nakamichi]

It only teaches them that Denuvo is better.
Regardless, the game is now roughly 2 years old so it's already redundant, I do believe it makes sense during the first months or year of a game being released since that's when most sales are made.

i dont think it makes any sense at all.
you either want to buy it or you dont.
DRM never played a factor in that for me.
Denuvo turned me off games more than anything, really.

 

[Viri]

Capcom fears this!

Spoiler

 

[HideoKojima]

They should go back to old school serial numbers

 

[onibaku]

Does anyone know if REFramework works with the drm-free update? I've been holding off on updating (still on Denuvo version of the game). But I assume the drm-free version would run better overall.

Just tested it and it worked in case any one is wondering