Resident Evil Village has been warmly received, and Capcom continues to reap success with this long-standing franchise. However, PC gamers remain dissatisfied with the game quality: the content and gameplay are fine, but there are moments of “stuttering” that disrupt the smooth experience.
Before Capcom could fix the issues, players discovered that the cracked version of Resident Evil Village had removed the digital rights management (DRM) tools, allowing for a much more stable gameplay experience.
Recently, the game cracking team EMPRESS successfully removed the DRM from the latest RE installment. When gamers experienced RE Village on PC, they found that the lingering issues from May—at the time of the game’s launch—had vanished. According to the EMPRESS team, Capcom had protected the game using both Denuvo technology (a DRM tool) and their own developed DRM technology. Perhaps the multiple layers of security limited the experience for PC gamers.
A journalist from the gaming news site DSOG tested the cracked version of the game and also provided a similar assessment: the gameplay experience of Resident Evil Village has significantly improved. Comparing it with the DRM-locked version running on a machine with an RTX 3080, the cracked version is noticeably smoother.
Both Capcom and Denuvo have yet to make an official comment on this new discovery. In the near future, the Japanese game company will release expansions for Resident Evil Village, and PC gamers are eagerly anticipating new content while hoping Capcom can soon fix the frame rate issues for a complete experience.