{"id":466290,"date":"2026-02-08T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466290\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:02:20","slug":"resident-evil-4-pc-remake-drm-swap-tanks-fps-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466290\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil 4 PC Remake DRM swap tanks FPS and reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"Resident<\/p>\n

\u24d8 Capcom<\/p>\n

<\/a>Resident Evil 4: Remake is receiving a (justified) mob of angry reviews on PC.<\/p>\n

The latest Resident Evil 4 Remake update replaces Denuvo DRM for Enigma Protector DRM, a move that has proven controversial due to high performance impact.<\/p>\n

The crux of the anti-DRM argument is that DRM punishes paying customers more than pirates\u2014and for a long-cracked game like Resident Evil 4 Remake, these words ring especially true when a DRM replacement tanks performance by as much as 20-50%. Basically, Capcom replaced the DRM copy protection software Denuvo with a cheaper alternative, Enigma Protector\u2014which was also used in the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo and retrofitted into Resident Evil Revelations\u00a0after its Denuvo expired. Sadly, this is far from the first time a Capcom game has had DRM-related<\/a> performance issues. <\/p>\n

Some players are also decrying this update as a move against mods, but as prominent mod developer FluffyQuack points out, that isn’t really a factor for the overwhelming majority of mods for the game. REFramework still works perfectly fine, as do the majority of cosmetic-only mods installed via FluffyQuack’s Fluffy Mod Manager\u2014only the minority of mods are impacted by an update like this, and should work fine after being updated themselves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As far as performance impact goes, though, users are reporting far more severe drawbacks. The game’s lost performance on low-power platforms like Steam Deck seem highest, with up to ~30% drops in FPS reported there. It’s bad news for those users, considering that Medium settings used to run at a stable 40-50 FPS on that class of hardware. Now, though, the game’s CPU or GPU VRAM demands are simply too high for the previous entry-level players to enjoy locked above 30 FPS. FluffyQuack’s testing on a higher-end PC showed more variability, but still saw an up to 20% performance boost on Denuvo versus Enigma, which is in line (if not somewhat lower than) other reports. <\/p>\n

Hopefully, Capcom reconsiders this approach, or outright removes DRM as it did with Resident Evil 2 Remake\u00a0and Resident Evil 3 Remake. Seeing as the game is already cracked, this move so far only serves to punish paying customers and mildly inconvenience modders and pirates\u2014and that’s never a good thing. No need to ruin a good PC port when you’re still fixing Monster Hunter Wilds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t\"Christopher<\/a><\/p>\n

Christopher Harper is a southeastern US-based tech writer with over a decade of experience covering PC, gaming, and technology how-tos and news. Off work, he focuses on challenging action games and gym time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u24d8 Capcom Resident Evil 4: Remake is receiving a (justified) mob of angry reviews on PC. The latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,234,238492,238491,238493,206253,238494,235,227,24552,233,226,268,31943,6342,236,232,165185,238490,228,229,11220,105,231,230],"class_list":["post-466290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmarks","tag-denuvo","tag-drm","tag-enigma","tag-fps","tag-gaming-performance","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-mods","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-pc","tag-pc-gaming","tag-performance","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-resident-evil","tag-resident-evil-4-remake","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-steam","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}