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

Its funny how a politician hiring people to edit his Wikipedia article has somehow invalidated an entire repository of human knowledge.

Obviously you're not going to use Wikipedia for an academic paper, but the basics are still there.

rofl

For something that HAS to be accurate, it's not good enough. But neither is Britannica. by their nature Encyclopedias are more useful for general knowledge purposes than in-depth research.

Wikipedia just has the additional complication that anyone can edit it, so incorrect info of various sorts can easily creep into their articles. Usually it gets fixed pretty quick... on the other hand, I once reverted an edit where someone had added 'Ord Mantell' to an image caption on the Easter Egg article. Unlinked. Nobody touched it until I reverted it, 364 days and 15 minutes after the change was made.

There is one good way to use it though: hit the article just to help get a vague idea of what the subject is: they're mostly pretty accurate, unless it's stubtacular. Then scroll down to their references. Note any that might be useable sources. Go find the original, and see if it's got anything useful.

Wikipedia is an introduction to primary sources, not a primary source itself. You don't use it for academic papers because, hey, if you're an academic, you're supposed to have specialized knowledge on this subject--Wikipedia is not specialized knowledge, since anyone can load up a page on X and find out the extent of what you know, if what you know is all that's on Wikipedia.

Like I said. Britannica has the same problem.

Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't have a page on 'remote rendering'...grr...

Replace the DNA article with "I LIEK CHEEZBERGERZ!!!1." /win

Go Write one Tiron! ofcourse....Swtor fans will edit the Shi#t out of it! lol

Where did this ridiculous (false) rumor of swtor using remote rendering come from anyways?

Go read the other 66 pages They

It's mostly laid out in the OP. In the 'retailclient' folder, there's a trio of files: Remoterenderer.dll, Remoterendererclient.dll, and Remoterenderserver.icb. One of them Remoterenderer.dll, I believe, was found to contain script/code/whatever that it appeared was designed to half the size of character textures, and then someone posted about it being copy protection, and it just kinda fell off the cliff from there.