So once we inserted that GeForce GTX 590 the hardware id # hash changed rendering our activation invalid. Here's what Ubisofts DRM is doing these days, they don't just verify the number of PCs you work on, nope. Once again I fill out the key and now Ubisoft is thanking me with the message that I ran out of activations. When I now startup the game 'BAM', again an activation is required.

So far it's all good, we have created a timedemo sequence, defined our image quality settings, took screenshots and the numbers for the first two cards.įor the NVIDIA setup I take out the GTX 580, and insert a GTX 590. On the AMD Radeon PC we initially test the Radeon HD 7970, then to match the timedemo sequence we install the NVIDIA system, which has a GeForce GTX 580. The second we installed on the AMD Radeon graphics test PC and the 3rd on our NVIDIA graphics test PC.

That's fair, the first activation is used on my personal game rig. We know (well at least we figured we knew), that the game key can be used on three systems. So yesterday I started working on a performance review. This story comes from established hardware site Guru3D, who over the weekend vented their frustrations with ANNO's DRM in a post titled, 'Why Guru3D probably never will review Ubisoft titles anymore.'

However, ANNO 2070 apparently recognizes a changed video card as an entirely new system, which could cause you to run out of those limited installs rather quickly, depending on your upgrading habits. Usually, Tages is meant to enforce an installation limit in order to prevent illegal sharing (something that's entirely redundant/unnecessary for a game on Steam, but I digress), usually set at 3 times or 3 different computers. It wouldn't be a Ubisoft game release without some kind of controversy, eh? The publisher recently put out the latest entry in their series of ANNO strategy games, and though it doesn't use their infamous always-on DRM, the way they've implemented third-party provider Solidshield's Tages system seems a bit more restrictive than usual.

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