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Guru3D.com » News » GIGABYTE offers DRM Fix Tool for Intel Alder Lake Processors (Dynamic Parking and Unparking of E-Cores)

GIGABYTE offers DRM Fix Tool for Intel Alder Lake Processors (Dynamic Parking and Unparking of E-Cores)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/22/2021 09:58 AM | source: tomshardware.com | 5 comment(s)
GIGABYTE offers DRM Fix Tool for Intel Alder Lake Processors (Dynamic Parking and Unparking of E-Cores)

Gigabyte has published the Gigabyte DRM Fix Tool, which allows users of Gigabyte Z690 motherboards to easily and swiftly park or unpark the E-cores (Gracemont) contained within Alder Lake processors.

Although it wasn't generally known prior to Alder Lake's announcement, it was widely assumed that the 12th Generation Core processors would have issues with older games that contained DRM. Briefly stated, Alder Lake's hybrid microarchitecture deceives DRM solutions such as Denuvo into believing that two different systems are concurrently the same game, despite the fact that both systems are using the same key. Obviously, a simple update on the part of the game developer will be sufficient to resolve the incompatibility concerns with the Alder Lake environment. To be practical, it's unlikely that developers will go to the trouble of updating all of their titles for Alder Lake, especially if the games are more than a couple of years old at this point.

Fortunately, motherboard manufacturers have included an option to turn off the Gracemont cores in the Alder Lake processor. The difficulty is that the choice is located within the motherboard's BIOS, which can be a confusing and daunting place for individuals with little computer experience. Even experienced users will find it inconvenient because they will have to manually restart the system, enable the option, and then restart again. The process is one that you must go through every time you wish to play an old game that has a DRM that does not play well with Alder Lake.

With the Gigabyte DRM Fix Tool, which is small in size and does not require installation, the work of parking E-cores is made easier. The bad news is that the software is only available for use with Gigabyte Z690 motherboards. In order to use this feature, only the most recent firmware version on the motherboard is required.

The DRM Fix Tool can be downloaded from the Gigabyte website.

Gigabyte Z690 Motherboards

MotherboardFirmware
Z690 Aorus Elite AX DDR4 F6a
Z690 Aero D F5a
Z690 Aero G F4b
Z690 Aero G DDR4 F6a
Z690 Aorus Elite F4a
Z690 Aorus Elite AX F5a
Z690 Aorus Elite DDR4 F5a
Z690 Aorus Master F6b
Z690 Aorus Pro F6a
Z690 Aorus Pro DDR4 F6a
Z690 Aorus Tachyon F3a
Z690 Aorus Ultra F5a
Z690 Aorus Xtreme F5a
Z690 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce F4a
Z690 Gaming X F5a
Z690 Gaming X DDR4 F6a
Z690I Aorus Ultra F4a
Z690I Aorus Ultra DDR4 F5a
Z690M Aorus Elite AX DDR4 F5a
Z690M Aorus Elite DDR4 F5a
Z690M DS3H DDR4 F2a
Z690 UD F5a
Z690 UD AC F5a
Z690 UD AX F5a
Z690 UD AX DDR4 F5a
Z690 UD DDR4 F5a






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CrazY_Milojko
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#5966919 Posted on: 11/22/2021 11:01 AM
This tool works only on GigaByte motherboards or can be used on LGA1700 boards made by other AIBs?

Why Intel didn't (or it already did) offered similar tool for LGA1700 boards?

edit
Well, all this "tool-fix" does is that it turns on Scroll Lock. If LGA1700 motherboard (in atm early BIOS builds) doesn't support E cores parking via BIOS using Intel's Scroll Lock "fix" one can really forget about this "fix" :rolleyes:

Not a good start for LGA1700, first these issues with DRM protection in some games, then lack of DDR5 availabillity and huge prices for these. Not a fun time for LGA1700 early adopters :(

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#5967119 Posted on: 11/22/2021 09:47 PM
All this is showing us for 100th time is that drm is bad and we should boycott any product with it .... Sadly never going to happen ... Imagine how fast drm will die if any game with drm have close to 0 sales !

thepath64
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#5967216 Posted on: 11/23/2021 11:53 AM
The list of games effected by this is too small
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000088261/processors/intel-core-processors.html

And fix for this is very simple....

T
Not a good start for LGA1700, first these issues with DRM protection in some games, then lack of DDR5 availabillity and huge prices for these. Not a fun time for LGA1700 early adopters :(

Lack of DDR5 is not an issue. Cause you can use DDR4 and get almost same performance at lower price.

Falkentyne
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#5967217 Posted on: 11/23/2021 12:15 PM
This tool works only on GigaByte motherboards or can be used on LGA1700 boards made by other AIBs?

Why Intel didn't (or it already did) offered similar tool for LGA1700 boards?

edit
Well, all this "tool-fix" does is that it turns on Scroll Lock. If LGA1700 motherboard (in atm early BIOS builds) doesn't support E cores parking via BIOS using Intel's Scroll Lock "fix" one can really forget about this "fix" :rolleyes:

Not a good start for LGA1700, first these issues with DRM protection in some games, then lack of DDR5 availabillity and huge prices for these. Not a fun time for LGA1700 early adopters :(

Some super mini keyboards don't have a scroll lock key, so....
(though I wouldn't be surprised, since they're supposed to be programmable, that they left out programming that particular key also...)

Venix
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#5967375 Posted on: 11/23/2021 10:30 PM
Some super mini keyboards don't have a scroll lock key, so....
(though I wouldn't be surprised, since they're supposed to be programmable, that they left out programming that particular key also...)

So .... I can fire up auto hotkey and make a fix my self ? Oo

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