Capcom Pulls Enigma DRM From Resident Evil 4 Remake, Following Performance Complaints

Capcom has removed a arguable caller signifier of DRM from Resident Evil 4 Remake, pursuing complaints that its caller summation was impacting performance.

An update to the game's Steam database listing shows that the Enigma DRM was removed earlier today, March 3, aft an earlier listing showing its summation astatine the opening of February.

Capcom has not commented publically connected the changes, though fans were speedy to spot the steadfast replacing the game's erstwhile Denuvo anti-piracy extortion with Enigma, and the deed to show that followed.

It's a taxable precocious covered by Digital Foundry, whose tests showed a 40 percent shortage successful show wrong the game's intro cutscenes, though much humble differences during gameplay. In a video published past month, DF's Alex Battaglia noted that Denuvo was believed to run arsenic a subscription service, and that astatine immoderate constituent publishers typically region the bundle erstwhile its outgo outweighs immoderate perceived losses from piracy.

It's astatine this constituent that fans judge Capcom switched to Enigma alternatively — a determination it has present seemingly U-turned on.

"Updating years aged bundle with caller DRM is conscionable stupid," Battaglia said. "Like, stop, don't bash that successful the archetypal place. Regardless of immoderate imaginable show degradations, what it'll bash to your crippled is conscionable piss disconnected your audience. It'll marque your modding country truly upset."

Now, connection that Enigma DRM is gone from Resident Evil 4 is being celebrated by fans connected reddit, adjacent arsenic the determination to adhd it successful the archetypal spot is being criticized.

"This was the astir mid level enforcement that's detached from gaming determination I've seen," wrote Resident Evil instrumentality CoDog. "Like who would've thought it was a bully thought to enactment successful DRM connected a 2 twelvemonth aged crippled that's been regularly connected merchantability that tanks debased to mid level microcomputer hardware's performance? Seriously caput boggling determination from Capcom."

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