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

This thread has everything to do with what is causing the delays that players are experiencing. Although the "response" came out yesterday, it still applies to the subject.

Players "We are having lag issues, ability delays, etc. Help!"
Bioware "That's troubling. We'll look into it."
Players "Help!! The game is lagzors!"
Bioware "We looked into it. It's your crappy computers, it has nothing to do with us."
Players "My puters is ROXRZ!! <Kick Butt Computer Stats here>"
Bioware "It's you not us."
Logic and Reason "If you don't like it, and don't like the response...don't play. Why would you pay money for something you don't like?! Would you pay $15 per month for all the canned spinach you could eat if you didn't like canned spinnach?! ...it makes as much sense."

Players "But we love Starwars GAMES!"
Bioware (ultimately) "Suffer through it and give us our money you ADDICTS!!"


Looks like some people have a choice to make.

Just so I know you guys understand what "rendering" is.

Rendering is the creation of an image from a data based 3D model.

If you're suggesting that some of that is being done server side and then streamed to your 3D engine, then I'm afraid that's flawed.

I'll explain why.

To bring the two images together, the streamed image, let's say my Jedi Knight has to be superimposed into the 3D gfx card rendered image. Getting the two images synced up, given the nature of internet lags and spikes, would be almost impossible.

Why would the images need to be synced up perfectly?

Because if you are superimposing pre rendered models onto the scene, they wouldn't cast shadows or light up the environment with lightsabers. Which means they'd need to have a local proxy model on your PC, which was 3d accurate, along with its associated light sources.

Both the model and the pre-rendered image would have to be in the same place at the same time all the time. Or it would be easily apparent.

The other thing to remember, is a pre rendered image superimposed onto a 3d scene, would also need z-buffer information, for occlusion, which again would have the effect, if it went out of sync, of things not dissapearing behind other things.

Also anyone who'd played with 3D vision would have noticed it straight away.

In summary, whatever it is that this remote renderer call is doing, it isn't pre-rendering images on a server and streaming them to us.

I am sure BW staff is yelling at LA and EA staff atm trying to figure out how to solve problem without acknowledging that they crapped in the corner.