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

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Oh boy, here comes the white-knighting.

"honestly most of all these problems people post are THERE own issue wether internet or computer probs you cant blame it on bioware" - absolute tripe. There's no denying this game has some serious performance issues on many systems, and it's either ATI/NVIDIA's drivers or Bioware's coding at fault.

ability delay is adjustable in game ,0,250,500 (ms)etc

Unless you're getting into some kind of metaphysical philosophy about reality, I don't think that's true

I think i know what you mean, I just thought that wording was funny.

1 white knight out of how many replies?

I think quite a few of a techi nature see this information is a huge problem for them, that's why they would be stupid to come out waving a flag.

I think they want to see how it pans put just like everyone else before deciding on what to do.

Dosen't really matter if this theory is true or not, the awful performance in highly populated areas, Ops and Warzones is very real. It's not really a conspiracy if you can point to your own monitor and say ''look, it's happening right in front of me''.

Whatever the casue, we have to live with the effect. As it stands, all of the end game content is quite unenjoyable for me thanks to the performance hit of doing anything in a large group. My system is way above the reccomended requierments, but I only have an average 8MB down (2MB actual) 2MB up (500K actual) broadband connection. That wont change any time soon becasue I cannot get anything faster in my area.

If they dont address this soon I cannot justify paying for the subscription. Watching my dudes glitch around the screen, watching attacks simply do nothing, watching the last 20 seconds of backed up animations unload on me long after the combat ended.....no thanks. Unresponsive combat has killed more MMOs than I care to count. If this isnt resolved than I am considering rturning this to Amazon for a refund under the Sale of Goods act ''not fit for purpose'' clause.

I tend to agree with you for the most part, that it's extremely technically challenging...but it seems to fit the observed facts too well to just discard without some hard data one way or the other.

HOW exactly they're using it I don't know, that the second process is software rendering is a half-wild guess, but I think they MAY be using SOMETHING from in there...or something similar, at any rate.

I will note though, that the paper I linked is the initial research paper on the subject, and as such is a theoretical discussion. According to google, it also dates from 2004, plenty of time for someone to have implemented something.

I'd love nothing better than to be proven wrong...but what we need is real proof. Answers. Either from Bioware or from a direct analysis of the system itself, which I don't have the know-how to do. I'm praying someone who does reads this.

We're on to you Bioware. If this is true, boy are you in for some explainin'.