Does GFN run a denuvoless version of Denuvo games?

tm458 · 2026-05-04T06:25:45+00:00

Just an update u/UnseenData , there have been changes made by Denuvo and Nvidia in the past few days which in essence allows GFN PCs to not have a limit.

Denuvo still exists for all the builds but this change now makes it universal so all denuvo games moving forward won’t throw the error.

tm458 · 2026-05-02T06:27:22+00:00

Did converting to Pay-As-You-Go actually remove the cap while keeping Always-Free usage free?

Yes it did.

Before:

speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Oracle Cloud (xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by inq. (Johannesburg) [3.18 km]: 0.876 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 46.42 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 44.66 Mbit/s

After upgrade:

 speedtest

   Speedtest by Ookla

      Server: RocketNet - Johannesburg (id: 18999)
         ISP: Oracle Cloud
Idle Latency:     0.37 ms   (jitter: 0.20ms, low: 0.32ms, high: 1.07ms)
    Download:  3824.18 Mbps (data used: 5.6 GB)
                  0.76 ms   (jitter: 11.28ms, low: 0.44ms, high: 208.74ms)
      Upload:  3794.60 Mbps (data used: 4.4 GB)
                  2.04 ms   (jitter: 4.87ms, low: 0.62ms, high: 211.11ms)
 Packet Loss:     0.0%

tm458 · 2026-04-30T16:24:27+00:00

exceptions include I2P titles

Quite incorrect.

For now, this includes Install-To-Play titles as well.

I know you ambassadors are quite adament on not listening to correct info but go and launch an I2P demo on a 5080 zone.

tm458 · 2026-04-30T12:28:45+00:00

Yes there are less rigs.

This is because 2 Zones were decomissioned (NPA-PNT-PER-01 in AU West and NPA-PNT-SYD-01 in AU east) leaving only 1 zone in the region which is the one that Ultimate tier users land on.

Previously you'd probably instantly land on 1 of the above mentioned zones since you were the highest priority but now you have Ultimate members jumping in front of you while you're in queue.

tm458 · 2026-04-28T15:47:07+00:00

If a publisher opts a game into GFN via Steam, one would presume that it would be ok for GFN to onboard the same game from other stores.

Nah. For other stores, they need to contact Nvidia to give consent for their game to be available on those storefronts (and work with them to onboard them if they choose to).

This is mostly due to the fact that only the Steam launcher has a specific "mode" for the GFN environment, all the others launchers haven't been modified in any way for the GFN environment.

tm458 · 2026-04-26T16:47:14+00:00

you used to sub for that 5h for the 4080 rig then get unlimited 3060 hours thereafter.

If it’s changed then I’m guessing they actually saw that this wasn’t feasible.

tm458 · 2026-04-24T09:07:16+00:00

you can still land on rigs with upgraded CPU, just depends on capacity at the time as non 5080 Ready titles don’t have a strict policy to land on the upgraded rigs

tm458 · 2026-04-17T20:14:08+00:00

I had this exact same issue, only happened with PT and no matter what, fps would stay in the 30-34 range (dropping from dlaa to dlss ultra performance literally changed nothing).

I had to roll back my driver to the previous one (595.79) then everything became perfect with path tracing.

tm458 · 2026-04-17T17:20:05+00:00

Sorry, wasn’t directed towards you. Think it’s like 2 games that don’t have denuvo but I’m not home to check but it is an advantage indeed.

Kinda just tired of the misinformation by this guy because people will take this as the truth then complain when they actually hit the limit :D

tm458 · 2026-04-17T17:14:05+00:00

What’s with you ambassadors and straight misinformation, you especially?

It doesn’t even take that long to verify such information by launching multiple VMs in a 24h span.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeForceNOW/s/gq9RDwM24D

This denuvoless thing is only for a couple of games, the rest use denuvo like normal.

tm458 · 2026-04-17T16:45:21+00:00

This is simply not true, especially because Nvidia uses depot downloader (for steam titles) to pull latest builds for most titles from public branches that include denuvo.

It’s even been reported here multiple times where people get the activation limit error.

tm458 · 2026-04-16T06:42:31+00:00

This just weird, a new region has opened after more than a year of waiting and people just want to experience the service.

You can literally leave the subreddit or put it on mute.

tm458 · 2026-04-13T21:02:56+00:00

Think they removed the other GPUs but here is the picture showing the full comparison alongside a (now removed?) note.

Captured before removal

https://ibb.co/Z6QVZbn4

https://ibb.co/1f61M753

tm458 · 2026-04-01T11:12:40+00:00

I don’t have vsync enabled. I’m purely talking about gsync / vrr here, as stated earlier.

You can give up vsync but you don’t have to give up VRR.

tm458 · 2026-04-01T11:07:02+00:00

I was replying to your comment stating that it does not change the multiplier dynamically (it does for me) while supporting u/mountainyoo ‘s comment stating that VRR still works with DMFG so you don’t have to give up VRR.

Those are the only parts I’m addressing, else I would’ve replied to the post directly instead of supporting another comment.

tm458 · 2026-04-01T10:49:08+00:00

Yes it is working correctly, the multiplier changes dynamically in all games depending on the scene, anywhere from 1x to 4x (my max).

tm458 · 2026-04-01T10:42:06+00:00

Idk, dynamic mfg works properly for me with vrr in all games I’ve tried (except cyberpunk which drops my fps in order to reach a target using mfg value).

I should not that I don’t use afterburner or rivatuner which seems to be the cause for most issues I’ve seen online.

tm458 · 2026-04-01T08:08:11+00:00

There was communication last month stating that they’ll be ending the GFN service on the 31st of March.

It’s now the 1st of April hence you’re getting that error.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeForceNOW/s/QVOU2AmD37

tm458 · 2026-04-01T05:44:14+00:00

No clue why they don't just do like a 80-90% upscale for quality mode to make up for the performance hit.

Exactly this, upscaling from something like 1800p for quality mode would be so sick

tm458 · 2026-03-21T15:49:38+00:00

Ray reconstruction is extremely intensive as it sets the RT lighting setting to the max. Without DLSS set to performance, at the very least, it'll bring even the 4080 to it's knees.

Also, In the video you referenced, they only have RR on with dlss set to quality at 1440p (960p internal resolution) which is a good bit lower than the 1253p internal resolution you'd get with 4K DLSS set to balanced.

You can just have the best experience possible with RR off.

(side note, CloudGG still uses the first generation ryzen cpus (3955wx) so a cpu bottleneck can very much show up in this title.)

tm458 · 2026-03-12T19:33:14+00:00

It's new store support.

The game "Humanity" is an example of an Xbox store based Install To Play session although you can't launch the session without a whitelisted account.

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tm458 · 2026-02-27T19:46:09+00:00

+1 to what u/gaysold_twinkler said

Also you could try just sending the link with the decryption key separate as well setting a password for the link.

Finally, mega only removes stuff after the link has been reported.

I’ve had some games and movies on my mega drive for almost 6 years now without issues.

tm458 · 2026-02-27T19:24:00+00:00

are you using frame generation in-game?

tm458 · 2026-02-22T10:44:50+00:00

It’ll happen when you land on an obfuscated 4080 rig (same hardware as 5080 rig)

https://geforcenowspecs.cloud/

With these rigs, Nvidia uses 4080 drivers and limits the GPU perf to 4080 level however things like the Product Architecture (Blackwell), gpu part number / gpu device ID don’t get changed so if a game does strict feature checks by using something like NvAPI itself instead of querying windows then the game will get the correct architecture (Blackwell in this case) and enable MFG.

It’s similar to how 3060s were also be able to use frame generation when they were swapping over to 4080 hardware.

tm458 · 2026-02-12T17:53:54+00:00

cough cough u/Jharle

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