Aggressive DRM in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Prevents User From Playing
We have further proof that Denuvo DRM solution, which is supposed to protect games from pirates, hinders the fun of ordinary gamers. One owner of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor found out the hard way.
The moment internet users discovered, that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor would be secured by the Denuvo anti-piracy system, a red flag popped up in the heads of thousands of users. It wasn't long before their fears came true.
After the release of the game, it turned out that the second installment of Electronic Arts' series was plagued by nightmarish optimization problems. Many people blamed the aforementioned Denuvo for this state of affairs. We have no irrefutable evidence that the DRM solution is behind the problems of Survivor (the developers have already managed to apologize for the poor technical condition of the game on PC, which suggests a problem on their side), but given that the system has already repeatedly influenced drops in game performance and excessive load on computers, such suspicions do not seem unfounded.
New problems
However, this does not change the fact that there are reports on the web that suggest that the security significantly impedes the fun of ordinary gamers.
The first to sound the alarm about this was math teacher and private technology youtuber Daniel Owen. In a recently published post on his YouTube channel, the user discussed the following problem - the system was detecting "too many computers" accessing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and suggested to "try again later.".
The reason for the message was that the player switched between GeForce GTX 1060 and RTX 4090 GPU on a computer equipped with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, and then tried to run Survivor on another PC - with a Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 4080. This ultimately resulted in the game not being able to launch on either PC.
"Apparently, EA won't let me play my own game using my own GPU on my own PCs. So maybe I'll run more tests, maybe not, because I certainly won't be buying many copies of the game because of this nonsense."
A jab at reviewers?
As expected, the youtuber's reports resonated online widely, intensifying the already considerable dissatisfaction among gamers with the current state of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Some Internet users claim that the aforementioned restrictions were deliberately imposed by Electronic Arts to make it difficult for reviewers to compare the title on different GPUs.
