The affected games all use the Denuvo Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. However, Intel has confirmed that over 50 games, including titles like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Far Cry Primal, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Football Manager 2021 do not presently work on systems which utilise the newest Intel CPUs. Hopefully this all gets tidied up soon, as although a lot of these games are relatively old and/or have diminished playerbases, the number of games so adversely affected by brand-new CPUs should really be zero.Intel recently launched its 12th-gen desktop CPUs, termed ‘Alder Lake’, promising better performance for gamers. Sure enough, I checked the Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero I’ve been using, and couldn’t find any such Legacy mode in the BIOS.
However, as PCMag discovered, this mode isn’t available on all Alder Lake-compatible motherboards, and will need to added later via an update. This is supposed to be doable by enabling “Legacy Game Compatibility Mode” in your motherboard BIOS, then tapping the Scroll Lock key to place put the E-cores on standby. While getting busy with actual fixes (alongside Denuvo themselves), Intel have at least suggested a workaround, which involves temporarily disabling the E-cores while you play games. Even so, it’s a big shame, given these are otherwise some of the best CPUs for gaming. I say “might” because when I was testing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Windows 11 for our Intel Core i5-12600K and Intel Core i9-12900K reviews, it appeared to perform fine throughout, never crashing or failing to load - so too you might get lucky and avoid Denuvo getting confused. Hoo boy, that’s a lot of games that should work but might not. Here are all the Denuvo games that might have trouble on 12th gen chips across Windows 10 and 11:Īnd these are the games that are affected on Windows 10 specifically:
Intel have also promised to fix the rest, though haven’t offered a timeframe for doing so.
Of the latter, some games – marked with an asterisk in the list below – should get better on Windows 11 after a mid-November patch. Some games will work fine on Windows 11 but not Windows 10, and while some are reportedly affected across both operating systems. In the affected games, Denuvo is mistaking the E-cores as being from a different system altogether, resulting in crashes and failures to load properly. Unfortunately, the problem seems to be caused by Alder Lake’s most interesting new feature: the mix of Performance cores (P-cores) and smaller Efficiency cores (E-cores).
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