Just hours ago, Square Enix released an update for Nier Automata that removed its Denuvo anti-tamper software, more than four years after the original release. This is certainly good news for PC Automata players, but it likely won’t be enough to solve the game’s ongoing performance issues.

Denuvo software is known to reduce performance for PC games. On higher-end systems, the reduction isn’t noticeable, but for low-end machines, Denuno can be the difference between a solid and choppy frame rate. Unfortunately, Denuvo is perhaps the most common anti-piracy software found on major releases, with the company charging a subscription-based fee for its use.

Because of the subscription-based model, most games eventually remove Denuvo after hackers find a way to bypass it. This can take as little as a few weeks as in the case of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, which had its Denuvo removed less than four weeks after arrival.

Nier Automata has kept Denuvo longer than most titles, although Denuvo certainly wasn't preventing the game from appearing on pirate torrents after four years.

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While Denuvo's removal will certainly improve Automata's performance, what Steam players were really hoping for was a PC-centered performance patch like the one so recently provided to Nier Replicant. Much like Automata, Replicant's PC port release with poor optimization, resulting in stuttering, dropped frames, and other graphical issues. Square Enix recently released a performance patch that vastly improved Replicant's gameplay, but no such luck for Automata.

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Automata fans have taken it upon themselves to create mods that go a long way into fixing the game's performance, with the same fans creating similar mods for Replicant expecting it to be abandoned by Square Enix. Replicant's performance patch came as a complete surprise, with even Square Enix acknowledging that many of the performance-based mods created by the community would no longer work with the recent update.

Strangely enough, the best version of Nier Automata on PC can actually be found on the Windows storefront, so buy the game there if you haven’t already.

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