A couple of days ago, we informed you about RAGE 2 using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Our findings were based on the Steam version and after we published our article, Bethesda confirmed the existence of Denuvo by updating the game’s Steam store page. However, it appears that its Bethesda Store version is – at least for now – Denuvo-free.
As many players have confirmed, the Bethesda Store version does not currently use the controversial anti-tamper tech. Not only that, but this particular version has already been cracked mainly due to the absence of the Denuvo DRM (our guess is that RAGE 2 uses the latest version of Denuvo which has not been cracked yet).
We seriously don’t know why the publisher decided to use Denuvo exclusively on the Steam version. Perhaps someone at Bethesda released a Denuvo-free version of RAGE 2 on the Bethesda Store by mistake? We’ve seen this happening in some games like F1 2019, Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2 Remake so this could be possible.
Still, right now the only customers that are being “punished” are those that have legitimately purchased the game on Steam, so here is hoping that the publisher will also remove Denuvo from it too (unless the Denuvo-free version was a mistake so expect a patch to re-implement it in the Bethesda Store version).
It will also be interesting to see comparisons between the Denuvo and the Denuvo-free versions of RAGE 2, though, and as we’ve already stated, RAGE 2 already works like a charm on older CPUs and can scale incredibly well on multiple CPU cores/threads.
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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