What the hell did Denuvo do to my PC

Right, so this occurred first in 2020 odd, when I bought Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Everytime I closed down the game, my PC would crash and reboot. So I only play when I need.

Recently bought Ubisofts Star Wars Outlaws and my PC kept crashing and I thought it was my graphics card, or SSD maybe going and a clean install of Windows 11 at least made it so I could play outlaws without crashing, but then following closing the game - again, crashes. This felt familiar and I looked it up and BOOM, Denuvo was included with the game.

Removed outlaws completely.

My new LIFE is essentially now this - when I turn my PC on in the evenings, Ill start a game - any game now and my PC will die - once restarted I can then play any game for the rest of the evening/day no problem at all.

What the absolutely fuck did Denuvo do to my PC lol.

I have done memory checks extensively, GPU benchmarking, checked my SSDs out, nothing is reporting broken, but after installing outlaws. Bewm.

Posted Nov 14, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC

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