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

I'm going to ask the development team to look into this, but I'd ask you to pull back on some of the more extreme speculation. It doesn't help us to have rational informed discussions about the issues that we are facing.

There is, to my knowledge, no single DLL that's responsible for a multitude of problems across the game. For example, our 'ability delay' issue is being addressed by the development team right now, and I've been told there are dozens of fixes potentially being looked at to help improve things. There's no single magic fix (although some fixes may have more of an effect than others).

I'll also say right now that we're not 'remotely rendering' textures and sending to your client via your internet connection; that would be some impressive technology and if we were doing it, is likely something we'd have talked about before now.

I'll seek developer comment on this, but I just want to caution anyone from overreacting.

I'll also say right now that we're not 'remotely rendering' textures and sending to your client via your internet connection; that would be some impressive technology and if we were doing it, is likely something we'd have talked about before now.

I'll seek developer comment on this, but I just want to caution anyone from overreacting.

It doesn't help us to have rational informed discussions about the issues that we are facing.

Wrong, you should've seen Bioshock and Oblivion when they were first released. Talk about getting a little crispy.

Guys, please don't forget that finding something including the word "remoterenderer" on your own PC means nothing.

The server-client model (ie something involving a remote renderer, where remote is your own machine through loopback) is often used in multicore rendering and IPC calls.

I know it is easy to get fueled by something like this, but as a few guys have advocated, please use reason before jumping to conclusions.

Even though the OP maintains that only a portion of a 3D model would need to be protected (and thus re-sent) I believe the simple fact that the engine still needs to sync it up for everyone would make it unfeasible in hub areas (as evidenced in the post by StephenReid).

If you actually look up time-rewrite lag compensation in engines such as the Source engine, or more recently, Battlefield 3, you realize that the amount of data actually transferred for sync-up is text size, ie as small as possible.

Just food for thought.

Thanks. Can you also directly clarify or ask the dev team if there's a local server handling on-the-fly decryption of game assets? Basically the same situation you've already confirmed as false, but occurring on a local server vs. a remote one.

I'm going to ask the development team to look into this, but I'd ask you to pull back on some of the more extreme speculation. It doesn't help us to have rational informed discussions about the issues that we are facing.

There is, to my knowledge, no single DLL that's responsible for a multitude of problems across the game. For example, our 'ability delay' issue is being addressed by the development team right now, and I've been told there are dozens of fixes potentially being looked at to help improve things. There's no single magic fix (although some fixes may have more of an effect than others).

I'll also say right now that we're not 'remotely rendering' textures and sending to your client via your internet connection; that would be some impressive technology and if we were doing it, is likely something we'd have talked about before now.

I'll seek developer comment on this, but I just want to caution anyone from overreacting.

Stephen, I have a Masters in IT - I can point you in the dirction of this particular piece of technology. If indeed it is being used, then this poses a lot of problems - not only redering isssues but placing pieces of software on people's computers that they are not aware of - there could be serious legal ramifications if the latter is the case...

i had this mental image of a forum rep running into ohlen's office yelling "sir, they're onto us!" after reading the op. That being said i'll just sit back and watch to see if/when this is confirmed.