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

It means that Bioware screwed up big time in the engine vs.performance choice. It means that people are dumb to believe its an UI bug, that some act of God created 3 options in the textures low, medium and high.

I cant believe how many people are taking Reid's avalanche of nothing as the truth. It has holes all over it.

I hate comparing the game to wow because to me this is much better (ex wow player)

however...... Wow is a VERY old game. Their engine runs great, works of multiple cores and has a 64 bit client.

swtor comes out basically end of 2011 and is single threaded, runs low textures, etc etc

I mean how can that be? I understand the issue with performance and why they are using atlas but why not include the option. unless it actually crashes the client? least give us a choice?


I don't wanna come off like all i'm doing is ************ but its pretty evident the game runs awful in many situations. But its running LOW RES textures... is the engine that bad?

It's just mind boggling to me

I could understand if i was running their high res textures via an option and they say it won't run well and i'm getting the performance i am now... but on low res textures.... gimme a break

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.

Decryption being an issue with performance assumes your computer is powerful enough to handle the high-res textures. The assets are encrypted already on your hard drive, to call, decrypt and display them it must have the decryption key from a remote server. The high-res option has been removed due to the number of 'calls' on the asset repository, and I'm speculating that this is only in order to reduce the number of decryption authorization requests on the remote servers. Otherwise they would just have 'Ultra' or 'Extreme' as an option.

Decryption being an issue with performance assumes your computer is powerful enough to handle the high-res textures. The assets are encrypted already on your hard drive, to call, decrypt and display them it must have the decryption key from a remote server. The high-res option has been removed due to the number of 'calls' on the asset repository, and I'm speculating that this is only in order to reduce the number of decryption authorization requests on the remote servers. Otherwise they would just have 'Ultra' or 'Extreme' as an option.

I have no idea but it's very, very disappointing, there are NO advanced features. All we get is bloom and no anti-aliasing upon release for a game that cost so much to make.

WoW's engine makes this look like a joke, there is absolutely nothing modern about this game, except for the release date. There are console games out there that are more advanced and perform better.

What findings? The ones that don't make any logical sense, are impossible, and that I've debunked? Go read through the thread. I wish OP would quote me on the first page and stop misleading people.

TOR has better story