Anno 2070 VGA Graphics performance review [Guru3D.com]

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The popular Anno series has been ongoing for many years now always based on history. The franchise decided to jump to the future 58 years ahead of time. For Anno 2070 the graphics engine has been...

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[Belz]

WOW!

I didnt see this one coming so fast.
Good job Hilbert! (& everyone else bitching about this)

Update: January 20, 2012

With the VGA performance review posted moments ago we received an email from BlueByte, the producer of the game with the following information:

Hi Hilbert,

Just wanted to let you know, that we now remove the graphics hardware from the hash used to identify the PC.
That means everyone should now be able to switch the GFX as many times as he/she wants.

Cheers,

We are very happy to see that the activation scheme has been changed for anybody and everybody who purchased and is purchasing the game, you may now swap out as many graphics cards as you want. It doesn't mean though that you can change hardware (significant hardware like motherboards) more then three times. As that protection will still will apply.

But this certainly is progress, a small success really and we are happy to see that the game industry does listen towards their user-base.

[Zboe]

Yeah, glad to see this got fixed.

The fact that this affected Nvidia users but not AMD meant that there was a flaw in their DRM in the first place.

[Nitrius]

Hmm looks like the article is linking to the wrong discussion thread, i ended up here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=347665 had to manually find this thread. Anyway good to see ubisoft/bluebyte do something about the DRM, also nice article =)

[kzinti1]

I've never heard of Steam having this DRM.
When I buy a game through Steam, my username & real name, my e-mail address & physical address, credit card & banking accounts are all part of my proof of ownership of any game I purchase from Steam.
Why would they then say that my changing any of my computers components would change my ownership of any game that I've purchased from them?
Through the information I've given them through my purchase, they know ME better than practically anybody. So why would they consider that I am not ME if I happen to install different parts in my computer(s)?
This concept of DRM is one of the most illogical ideas I've run across in my increasingly long life.
Whosoever is at the root of this DRM, thing, is rather overtly anti-progressive as to the evolution of computer components. They obviously demand that we never, ever, upgrade our computers in any way whatsoever, because, if we do, then we, personally, suddenly become unrecognizable strangers who have never purchased a game from them and are automatically perceived as thieves? Huh?
I had to reread what I just wrote. I will be damned, but that is exactly what they're saying! A persons entire existence is no longer valid, because we change the parts of our computers.
Somebody should write a book on the idiocy of these strange, practically alien concepts of Digital Rights Management.
The World Court should then draft laws making such things completely illegal.
Who had a nightmare and dreamt up this concept of, "I buy, therefore I do not own"?
I wish whoever he/she or most likely "IT" actually is, would wake up and just go piss off.
Whoever, or whatever it is, is not part of our reality and needs to be removed to its other, alternate reality, posthaste.