On the eve of the release of Dragon Age, some worrying information has come out about Denuvo.
Users looking at the read/write details for "Lords of the Fallen" a game that also uses Denuvo found that the DRM system was using "150000 copy/write iterations" in an hour. The user describes that as being "10000 times more than usual."
For those that don't know, SSDs have a limited number of Read/Write cycles, and as such, any program that uses a very high amount of these will lower the lifespan of this hardware, whilst usually this isn't too much of an issue with newer SSDs, older models have significantly short lifespans and as such, a program using this many writes will very quickly render the memory blocks of an SSD unusable.
This is particularly worrying, and I think I'll be installing the game on my hard drive myself, at least until the matter is resolved anyway.
At present, Bioware, nor Denuvo themselves have mentioned anything on the issue, however, it is quickly gaining conversation on various media websites.
Source: Here! [http://www.cheathappens.com/show_board2.asp?headID=124446&titleID=19120]
Update as of 22/11/2014: A lot of people reporting this is not the case. Some pretty believable evidence that none of this is taking place. Personally, I'm going to wait a little while long, but since the inception of this thread, it is seeming doubtful that this is the case.
Users looking at the read/write details for "Lords of the Fallen" a game that also uses Denuvo found that the DRM system was using "150000 copy/write iterations" in an hour. The user describes that as being "10000 times more than usual."
For those that don't know, SSDs have a limited number of Read/Write cycles, and as such, any program that uses a very high amount of these will lower the lifespan of this hardware, whilst usually this isn't too much of an issue with newer SSDs, older models have significantly short lifespans and as such, a program using this many writes will very quickly render the memory blocks of an SSD unusable.
This is particularly worrying, and I think I'll be installing the game on my hard drive myself, at least until the matter is resolved anyway.
At present, Bioware, nor Denuvo themselves have mentioned anything on the issue, however, it is quickly gaining conversation on various media websites.
Source: Here! [http://www.cheathappens.com/show_board2.asp?headID=124446&titleID=19120]
Update as of 22/11/2014: A lot of people reporting this is not the case. Some pretty believable evidence that none of this is taking place. Personally, I'm going to wait a little while long, but since the inception of this thread, it is seeming doubtful that this is the case.