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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake does not support DENUVO anti-tampering of 32 games

Here are the games that don't work on Intel Alder Lake, but there is a workaround

It's an issue we were made aware of in the run-up to Intel's 12th Gen release, and one that I ran into during testing with Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. Intel gave me the following response: "We are aware of an issue with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, and we are working with the game publisher on a fix."

Intel does mention a workaround, however, and it's partially to do with Intel Alder Lake's brand new Efficient Cores (E-Cores).

According to Intel, DRM software may wrongly assume these E-Cores are an entirely different system to the other CPU cores included in Alder Lake, the Performance Cores (P-Cores). Thus, preventing the game from running successfully.

So, one way to get around that would be to disable your E-Cores. Now that's not great, as that's one reason why Alder Lake processors are so impressive, but when need's must.

It's possible to do so by enabling Legacy Game Compatibility Mode, which is a fairly simple process:

List of Games Affected by DRM Issue in 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors for Windows 11* and Windows® 10

The games listed below are known to be impacted by the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software issue with Windows 11*. The games listed in bold are expected to be patched sometime in mid-November with the upcoming Windows 11 update.