Michael Lang:

Like I made in an earlier post Valhalla worked just fine for me launching it from Ubisoft launcher. I think the whole this game that game thing is getting blown out to make it worse than it is. I 500+ games in my steam library not counting Epic, and Ubi and Origin. I have yet to play anything from my old list and new games bought since launch that hasn't worked on my setup. I think a lot of sites and Youtubers make things out worse than they seem at times.

Not all games impacted by the Denuvo/Alderlake issue crash on startup. There have been reports of games working for a while and then suddenly crashing. So the fact that it launches without issues for you doesn't mean that the game will not crash sometime later (potentially hours after launch).

I did more than just load which I should have said so which is my bad. I did a early rad since it didn't seem to suck me in like all the other Creed's. At the moment I can't stop playing Icarus, had over a 100 hrs in the beta weekend and have 44hr on the release. If I go Epic/max out shadow slide and mem allocation @5120x1440 I get 60-70 in DX12 with RTX and DLSS. The dx12 on the beta was 40fps but if I run dx11 I get 90-110%. Also, the 12900k was drawing a massive 95-105w while my 3090 was pulling like 360w