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

I don't see why Bioware can't just do what Guild wars did. they made your personal avatar's resolution higher than everyone elses. honestly i don't really care what other players look like, i just want to see my avatar in all his high res glory. also, this Stephen reid guy says they can do it in the conversations, with up to 4 player character avatars. so why not make it that i can use the high res textures with just whoever is in my party, again i don't care about everyone else.

oh and PLEASE do something about the paper doll textures, they are horrible. when i'm trying to see if a piece of gear i might consider getting looks like a muddy POS i'm not gonna want it.

It has, and has been on the first post for some time.

Think for a moment. Outsourcing rendering for 100.000's of clients. You got to be kidding me I do not think this is even possible and if it is, it is a stupid thing to implement it. There are ways to do this more intelligent and uses less resources.

There are certainly issues with rendering and high texture availability. Even though I have a high end machine, in some outdoor areas, the game runs choppy while my fps is still 80 (with AA x8 enabled).

Also at off peak hours, while I do have a good internet connection, I usually see 1000+ ms for a second and then it drops to the normal 30ms. On peak hours there is no problem at all, go figure.

Above problems never occur in any other game I play!

For sure Bioware is doing something which gives a lot a bad performance, but outsourcing rendering can not be the reason.

If only Bioware is communicating with their player base as some (Trion for example) does.

I support this thread though.

lol! The whole reason to play "legally" on BW's servers and not private servers (which I don't think exist - yet...) is the feeling of true "accomplishment." Private servers, of which I've never played, seem like you can do anything you want basically - where's the challenge in that? I like to be challenged and play MMO's properly.

But from this whole BW/EA debacle, I don't blame ppl from leaving or finding "alternative" methods of play.

Sorry, I don't see it mentioned; could you quote the bit you mean? If I'm just being blind, then no worries

Which is why all the other stuff is colored, locked off, etc: to make sure it gets noticed. As more information comes out it'll continue to be updated, and all the 'rampant speculation' will be gone.

It's not news, but an unrelated thread that I linked in the OP, talking about UAC of all things, mentioned in passing that the fact that it's apparently tied into the remoterenderingserver.ibc could be why one of the processes was requesting elevation. He had it listed in that thread as being 'swtor.exe @remoterenderingserver.ibc' Where he got that from I haven't figured out yet, but it suggests a connection, as you posit, to the remote rendering system. Depending on what this 'remote rendering' actually IS...it could be substantial or nothing at all. We're just now starting to get some decent data to determine which.

Yes. The question is why you'd need to run a 'renderer' alongside the main process, and if that could explain, somehow or another, some of the problems we've been seeing. Everything from simple latency added in to certain things because of the extra processing time to poor performance when having to wait on it to do...something.

yep

I-7 920 overclocked to 4.3ghz
16 gigs of ram
2 460's overclocked in SLi

runs battlefield 3 maxed out at over 70fps


total ****..... I'm no the only one with these problems. there are tons of people

Yes your point is valid. If not for the reason that they were being cheap and cutting corners, outsourcing and using a piece of garbage system of Hero Engine and not using an in house solution like most professionals do, then I guess we wouldn't be suffering from all these issues.

Actually no, best answer you can give is ignore publisher/developer and never buy/pirate any of their products. It's what I've done with codemasters. No matter how good game may be they're on my **** list, I will never pay for another game I will never play another game made/published by them.

Bottom of the first paragraph:

[Edit: it has been stated further on, but not confirmed, that the 'RemoteRenderer' is just part of the normal rendering system, and may be a renaming of or replacement for an original Hero Engine Component: The name may just be a coincidence. Hard data needed.]

Not trying to be a dick, but not everyone here is just flipping out with speculation.