The New Update BROKE DOOM Eternal

Update 1 was just released for DOOM Eternal, bringing with it Empowered Demons, the Echelon leveling system... and Denuvo Anti-Cheat software. Denuvo has BROKEN the game, bringing with it a slew of performance issues from frame dips, to slow downs, to straight up hard crashes. This NEEDS to be fixed ASAP. Some quick notes: 1. The Denuvo Anti-Cheat software is a different program than the Denuvo Anti-Piracy DRM software. The anti-cheat is known to have “kernel level“ access to your computer, essentially meaning it has complete access to your computer to check for files. I don’t know what to make of it. At surface level it terrifies me. But many other programs I already use, work similarly. So make what you will out of that information. 2. I forgot that I did encounter a couple bugs early on in my playthroughs, those bugs are listed out in my original review for the game. BUT they were all odd one-off bugs that have never been replicated, and they WERE NOT tied to performance issues. Until this update, the
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