Denuvo cracked in DOOM: The Dark Ages after 9 months

The ongoing crusade against Denuvo’s digital stronghold continues.

Hacker 0xZeOn recently made waves by announcing a bypass for DOOM: The Dark Ages, which arrived on the scene last May. The PC iteration of the title was fortified with the notorious Denuvo anti-tamper technology, a suite long despised by many in the gaming community.

This is no conventional crack, however. Rather than a standard modification of the executable, the protection was circumvented using a “hypervisor” method—a technique that has seen a significant surge in popularity within the scene lately.

Utilizing such a bypass for DOOM: The Dark Ages requires users to dismantle essential system security features. This trade-off introduces substantial vulnerabilities to the host machine, leading a segment of the piracy community to view hypervisor-based solutions with skepticism, often refusing to recognize them as legitimate or “clean” cracks.

Source: iXBT.games