Total War Three Kingdoms Unable To Load Denuvo Library Windows 11

[Candi Ruman]

Technicallyspeaking, my workstation is not supported by Windows 11. Despite packing two Intel Xeon E5 V4 2640 CPUs for a total of 20 cores and 40 threads, 32 GB of ECC RAM, an AMD Radeon Pro w5700, and the usual stuff like an M.2 SSD, this machine apparently did not meet the minimum specifications for Windows 11 since it has no TPM 2.0 security chip, and the processors were deemed too old. Luckily, these limitations are entirely artificial and meaningless, and using Ventoy, which by default disables these silly restrictions, I was able to install Windows 11 just fine.

The first thing I did after installing Windows 11 is use a little script I found to purge everything CoPilot off the machine. Not only do I not wish to be beaten over the head with this stuff at every turn, I also have deep moral objections to machine learning tools like CoPilot, both regarding the questionable way they source their training data and their impact on the environment. The fact that one most resort to registry hacks and scripts just to remove unwanted applications and features is absolutely bizarre from the perspective of a Linux user.

A very good review, but you missed some other of the shortcomings, like the very old and inefficient file system compared to things like XFS in terms of write optimizations and more.

Another issue is the inefficient handling of anything more multi threaded as seen when running the same benchmarks in video productivity or scene rendering on windows vs linux (src: Phoronix).

Another great hassle is the amount of wasted screen real estate by default, and it is a problem on smaller monitors or lower resolution monitors and there is very limited customization options in the newer versions of windows.

The lack of customization is also problematic for people with vision disabilities since the entire UI is mostly flat, and thus it is harder to discern what is a UI element and what is just a background with buttons and scrollbars being the prime problem children.

Also the poor backwards compatibility on newer versions of windows where most games on CD/DVD with any form of copy protection no longer works due to removal of support for said form of DRM. This still works fine in WINE. In fact WINE now supports more windows applications than windows 10/11 does, granted many of those titles are older software/games but it is still valid and well functionin software that some people otherwise would be just fine with using.

XFS has vast number of upgrades compared to NTFS in the same timespan. XFS originally was for workstations though, but today every computer is pretty much a supercomputer workstation compared to the olden days.

The update thing is real, for sure. I installed Windows 11 on a work machine recently and it was a nightmare of failures; updates stuck downloading, updates stuck updating and failed updates rolling back after restarts.

I agree, sideloading on linux without going through a repo or package manager can be a hellish experience, but so is windows DLL hell. I would concede that windows has the benefit of more officially supported commercial software titles, which helps a lot. But still, having to rely on software installers is a weakness on the windows side. Not to mention some bloody awful decisions by microsoft to create a 32bit and 64bit program files dichotomy. IMHO both linux and windows carry legacy baggage that could be improved if given a chance to start clean.

To be fair, before GNOME started making a mess of things, consistent look and feel was basically a solved problem, with distros shipping the same theme for the current Qt version, GTK+ 2.x, and GTK 3.

As for apps, I rarely encountered an app that would not install on windows, you get a mix and match of installers, but typically i had no big problem installing windows XP app on Windows 10. In linux, if you step out of the distro package manager, it is a jungle of incompatible libraries and requirements.

I concur. While the repos typically beat windows on ease of use, they only contain curated FOSS software, and maybe not the version you need. If you never need to leave the repos then life is good, but when you do dependency hell will be waiting for you ?

When, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Wine community and Valve gaming on Linux became a boring, it-just-works affair, I said goodbye to my final gaming-only Windows installation about four or so years ago.

About Wine, the problem is it fails to run even Windows software released yesterday (for example the latest game or the latest version of Photoshop), which is even worse. There are two ecosystems in the desktop/laptop market (Mac and Windows), and Desktop Linux is compatible with neither.

Wine supports more windows apps than windows. For example, Call of Duty 2 and Warpath both installs just fine from DVD on wine, but it completely borked on windows. This is due to windows installing a KB patch that deisables the ability to use denuvo/starfire or any other DRM from a DVD and i have hundreds of games that does no longer work in windows on disc without a crack.

What do you expect to prove with an irrelevant pivot? I have criticism for linux too and I have no problem accepting linux criticism. However here you are just employing random distractions rather than providing a serious rebuttal to what you are responding to.

Except in Windows, you have a library of software that spans almost 30 years. Install and use the vast majority of applications that have ever been released. In Linux, you enjoy a current software snapshot, and if you go beyond that, you pray it works.

Windows is indeed a huge mess, even more so since the desktop was deemed a non-growth market and they tried to put the kitchen sink onto it from touch nonsense with Windows 7 to cloud to now AI. It just never stops.

In an ideal world I wish there were efforts to create a fully modern, user-focused, consistent open-source OS that gave a damn about being what an operating system should actually be: a stable platform to run other shit on.

This comes off kind of ragebait-y but it feels accurate to me. I use Linux for personal stuff and Windows at work, and it often feels like Linux has been steadily improving in usability since the 2000s while Windows has not really improved since Win7. The guts of the OS are ostensibly better now, but the inconsistent UI and numerous papercut issues are a bad look.

Yes for WINDOWS 10. I am advising everyone I know and family to IMMEDIATELY re-install Windows 10 if there system was upgraded to 11 and how to keep it from being auto-upgraded. Windows 11 is a PRIVACY HORROR SHOW.

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