A new update for "Rise of the Tomb Raider" PC version has been released on both Steam and Windows Store. It reportedly introduces the so-called multi-GPU support feature. Meanwhile, a pirate has infamously cracked the game's Denuvo DRM Protection.
According to The Tech Report, the PC developer of "Rise of the Tomb Raider" Nixxes has unleashed the game's seventh update. It is now made available on either Steam or Windows Store. The aforesaid update is mean to introduce the multi-GPU support, specifically for the title's DirectX 12 renderer.
With the multi-GPU support, this could make lots of "Rise of the Tomb Raider" fans happy. Apart from that, the Windows Store version of the title is, at long last, getting its vertical-sync toggle. In fact, the studio even provided a 3D stereo as well as a multi-monitor setups.
But above all of these "Rise of the Tomb Raider" new features, the most interesting one is the DirectX 12 Asynchronous Compute support. And yes, this is made available for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. The latter, however, will be needing a new Pascal GPU in order to acquire the said async compute process.
In related news, PCGamesN reports that an infamous hacker has made its way to cracking the "Rise of the Tomb Raider" Denuvo DRM protection. The hacker, who is believed to part of the vicious RELOADED group of crackers, has uploaded a video to showcase the game's debug process.
It should be noted that Denuvo is the one responsible for preventing any torrent releases of games such as "Just Cause 3" and "Doom." And of course, "Rise of the Tomb Raider" is among these. However, with the recent reports, it seems to be breakable at all.
Basically, the process done to "Rise of the Tomb Raider" was done simply by using a debug software. The only catch, however, is that it is yet to be confirmed if it indeed happened or not. Why? That is because no one, as of this writing, has solely claimed responsibility. Nonetheless, this should somehow alarmed Denuvo in one way or another.
"Rise of the Tomb Raider" fans can check the aforementioned video here.
