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Ubisoft Changes Anno 2070 DRM

[Jan 20, 2012, 11:00 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Guru3D has a follow-up to the recent incident where they reported problems creating a performance review for Anno 2070 because the DRM in the strategy sequel was triggered by them changing graphics cards in their test rig. In spite of a report where Ubisoft claimed this was working "as intended," the latest news is this aspect of the game's copy protection is now being dropped. Here's word they got from the developers at Blue Byte:

Just wanted to let you know, that we now remove the graphics hardware from the hash used to identify the PC. That means everyone should now be able to switch the GFX as many times as he/she wants.

Incidently, that Anno 2070 VGA Graphics performance review is now complete.

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Re: Ubisoft Changes Anno 2070 DRM

Jan 20, 2012, 12:56

Bhruic

This is one of the areas that annoys me more in theory than it does in practise. I mean, I guess it decreases game longevity, and there are some quite older games that I still play, but in general, I might do a single graphics card switch during the period I'm playing a game, but that'd be it. Doing 3 would be unheard of, and even then, you can call in to get more activations. Not that it doesn't annoy me regardless, since having to jump through hoops to play a game I paid for is damn irritating, but I have a hard time getting too worked up over this particular problem. Their online requirement is an order of magnitude worse in that regard.

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