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

Given the massive fights I had with xcore last week, I'm the LAST person they'd want to be pushing something for them.

And frankly, of the three companies involved, one has pulled stupid DRM before, and another has a habit of wrecking games of dictatorial edicts: Some exec that doesn't know what they're doing, at either or both companies, mandating a stupid 'protection' system be added to 'help the bottom line' is more than a little plausible.

Editing the post is intended to help make sure that newcomers don't get the wrong idea, and fix some of the misinterpretations.

And I'm all ears if you've got a better idea that fits all the facts...

The key one being what this 'remote renderer' thing actually DOES.

While Miliways may have come off a little brash at first, his points are all 100% correct.

An MMO is a different beast than a single player game. There's a lot going on in a MMO besides graphics that can slow things down.

If they did they would be bad journalists. Performance issues are a fact, this as a cause for performance or left out textures is speculation.

I wouldn't be so quick to assume anything. If you look at the replies, very few of them have stated this as fact. Most say that this has to be at least looked into. I would rather this information be posted then in someone head and never read. It at least deserves some explanation either way.

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I see a lot of speculation, and a lot of people debunking that. I would like those debunkers to explain what the second SWTOR.exe is doing with a sustained 100% of one of my cores.

We don't know the answer to that. That does not, however, prove that the lack of high res textures is a copyright protection conspiracy.

Man I can't wait until someone gets confirmation or debunks this. If this turns out to be why we are not getting hi-rez textures right now, it would be the most stupid thing Bioware has done to date... and they already have a long track record of incredibly stupid design decisions on this game so far.

It's a brand new SSD drive bought only for this game. Windows 7 pro 64 bit, office, and firefox are all that's used on this drive. My game does load faster than my non SSD friend's PC however those pauses and stutters leave me suspect.

of course, the entire world is actually mutable in Minecraft, rather than being largely static meshes.

There's actually a lot of work in that, even if it looks like there shouldn't be.

You have posted many replies in the form of trying to sway this post to a certain conclusion. Might i suggest a wait and see approach, just to be safe.

Haven't read past page 10 in replies yet, but im reading the pdf.
This would explain a lot of performance issues people are having.
I don't have "issues" at all, but I do have random performance behaviour, which I find odd.
A game shouldn't go from 20 to 80 to 34 to 110 to 46 to 27 etc fps every 5 seconds.
My connection shouldn't be shot in the foot just because I'm playing a game. I was able to run Netflix, Torrents, and WoW all at the same time while browsing things.

With swtor I can still browse but I can definitely tell my connection is suffering for some reason.

Also the way the program effects the cpu strikes me as odd and random. (as well as the dual processes taking place yet one being virtual free of a connection)