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Technical forum / Re: WME connecting to Microsoft at startup?
« on: March 26, 2006, 03:51:11 PM »
Welcome Django,
well yes, this behaviour is known, though its not the engine itself that connects to "Big Bro'", but some WHQL certified videocard drivers do that.
As far as I know (but that information is about 6 months old), Mnemonic found no real workaround for that yet, but if you allow that connection once, it shouldn't connect afterwards anymore.
There also is some checkbox in the DirectX settings (dxdiag) about it. Actually it *should* stop this behaviour when this checkbox is unchecked (and therefore it'd be up to your users and should not only be WME specific) but it seems that this doesn't always work for some reason.
I hope my information is not too outdated, maybe someone want to correct me.
Jerrot.
well yes, this behaviour is known, though its not the engine itself that connects to "Big Bro'", but some WHQL certified videocard drivers do that.
As far as I know (but that information is about 6 months old), Mnemonic found no real workaround for that yet, but if you allow that connection once, it shouldn't connect afterwards anymore.
There also is some checkbox in the DirectX settings (dxdiag) about it. Actually it *should* stop this behaviour when this checkbox is unchecked (and therefore it'd be up to your users and should not only be WME specific) but it seems that this doesn't always work for some reason.
I hope my information is not too outdated, maybe someone want to correct me.
Jerrot.