Why is there a copy protection system in the graphics, and is it crippling the game?

Very interesting. If it's true, how scandalous would that be?

If not, at least it shows how lack of information can lead to all kinds of fun conspiracy theories.

This is the single best post on this forum, in its explanation and the reply's its getting. So are we saying this protection is used to deter people from pirating. Because even if someone were to download the game they would never have all the files, because some of them have been isolated?

I'm still trying to figure out where he got that bit about it being tied to the remoterenderingserver file from, myself...but given the fact it's in an unrelated thread, came up in passing, and wasn't particularly at issue I'm inclined to believe it.

I'm speculating heavily as to what it actually does, however, and I'll be the first to admit it.

To tell the truth I'm really kinda hoping with someone that understands the technical details of these sorts of systems will see this and check it out, in ways I wouldn't know where to begin with myself.

Since there is this much reaction to the topic already. I think the only way the devs can calm the mob now (including myself btw) is to explain why there is a 2nd proccess running, what it does, what that mentioned DLL does, IS anything rendered serverside?

this would explain alot of the threads about high end machines not running swtor propperly, it can be their internet connection, their ISP, Bio/EA's ISP or connection, or serverload on a specific piece of hardware in their datacenters.... jezus...this opens up tons of possibilities!

Information or lack thereof rarely aids or inhibits conspiracy theories, since they act the same way as religions, belief is all that is required.

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So Bioware decided to cripple game performance and cause muddy textures/pop-in just to prevent the creation of private servers?

What a bunch of twits (I'd have stronger words for them). Absolutely absurd.

I was thinking of resubscribing; yeah, I'll have to reconsider.

Wouldn't be much point to that, since they have to have a key to set up an account with.

It COULD however be used to prevent people from running private servers: with some of the assets stored on the server instead of on the client, it'd be much more difficult to start up a private server, as it'd probably be missing all those assets.

Until some hacker figures that out, gets them from someone that still has the old beta client on their hard drive somewhere, and uses those.

It could make it easier to prosecute people running private servers as well, since if I'm right about the timing the old beta stuff was never released except under the NDA, and to get it otherwise they'd have to steal it from Bioware somehow.

Their CPU not having enough oomph to pull the software rendering, the simple delay it takes to receive the assets from the server, render them, and zip them into the rest of the stuff in the client...

This is not confirmed. This is just speculation.

Could it be that they are going to have third parties to work on their system/build?

I think that would be a valid reason why they are doing this (if they are)..