The company also described how their approach differed from other anti-cheat technologies in that they take what they describe to be a 'read only' approach where the anti-cheat protection does not actively block any cheats or applications but only detects and reports. On the subject of Proton, Denuvo replied to be tracking the issue immediately after launch as well as being committed to delivering a fix soon. Following the negative response, Denuvo responded to enquiries made by TechRaptor to explain that while they do not believe in kernel-level anti-cheat, the use of a kernel-level driver is necessary for the product to take advantage of modern hardware-backed security. On the anti-cheat product launched alongside the first update of Doom Eternal to protect its 'battlemode' multiplayer mode, and was met with a negative community response when it was discovered to rely on an kernel-level driver and introduced incompatibility with Proton, a compatibility tool used to allow Windows-based games to be played on Linux. Since it uses hardware-backed security, the protection goes beyond that which is offered by simple Windows kernel-mode drivers. The protection supposedly operates on the binary, not the source code, and integrates directly into the product build process, and also does not interfere with debuggers, instrumentation tools, or profilers, nor does it require additional APIs or SDKs to implement. According to the announcement, Denuvo Anti-Cheat combines machine learning of game agnostic process metrics with the latest hardware security features offered by Intel and AMD to detect and prevent cheating.

The following year, on 20 March 2019, a launch announcement was made about the new product. In August 2018, Irdeto announced the Anti-Cheat technology would soon launch as a full end-to-end solution. Denuvo Anti-Cheat īeing listed on the official website since at least January 2017, this product was in development over the next three years before it would go live in May 2020. In early 2018, Denuvo Software Solutions was acquired by Irdeto. Some games making use of the Denuvo Anti-Tamper product will therefore include mentions of this relationship in their EULAs, and refer to the product as one by Sony DADC or similar.

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