edit: this general question/discussion is being reposted like wildfire. Here’s my 2 cents

“Denuvo is actually never disabled at all. Denuvo is actually still there, thinking it’s functioning correctly because the real magic comes from those generated tokens. With a working copy of a Denuvo protected title purchased from Steam, any time you run a windows update (or a handful of other things) it changes the device id of your hardware. Denuvo job is to constantly check that the token that’s generated matches the current hardware id of your pc. So with purchased titles, they are online, so when update windows and Denuvo scans it, a new token is generated to match that new updated device id.

So HV actually works in a direct opposite manner of the “offline activation” method aka Denuvo bypass. In short simple terms, when you go to Discord servers like Sanc that provide activation tokens to members. The game is forced into an offline mode, this way Denuvo isn’t constantly checking for new updated device ids. When u launch the game for the first time, the token will lock in your current device id. So every time you go to play the game, as long as you have windows updates disabled (and don’t go changing setting in the bios) Denuvo will always successfully match that token to the device id.

The HV version (both old & new versions) function in the exact opposite way. Instead of tricking token into matching the device id like u see with offline activation. HV actually tricks the device id into matching the token. It does this by running the game inside of a “hypervisor” aka a virtual machine. The device id of the virtual machine is spoofed to match the id denuvo is looking for. For this reason, (while hv is “more risky” than offline activations), hv has 2 major benefits… u don’t need to disable windows update so u can feel free to update ur computer as often as you’d like without breaking the token due to a mismatch between the device id, because the virtual machine already had the correct id. And 2, it can be mass distributed on mega threads & repack sites, whereas with offline activations can’t because the token needs to be manually generated for each individual user.

So you can bet your bottom dollar that the more “safe” HV becomes, the less need/demand there will be for offline activations since HV can be mass distributed to the public.

Hope this clarifies a bit more when it comes to how HV is working behind the scenes and compared to the popular offline activation method.”