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"I thought about releasing a free version."
No, you did not. Ever. This is always online. This so tightly coupled with always online, with the DRM checks that you couldn't in a million years offer it for free in a privacy-friendly way. You could just offer a perpetual always online license. "But it's just width, height and yadda yadda", bro, the Tor browser messes the window size because it can compound with 2-3 other things to be uniquely identifying.
Alright, progress update.
It has fallen. Mostly. Baby's first attempt at Denuvo sans virtualization. Dude thought asymmetric crypto is slick. Your private key isn't worth shit when the code running on my machine decides your reality.
Many thanks for all these errors, basically I just patch them and the next one tells me where to find the next DRM check slop.This might be the biggest piece of AI slop I've ever worked on. It has Rust, it has Python, it has JavaScript, it has WebView (because LLMs can't do anything but web + security through obscuriy as it's decompressed online), IPC balls to the wall. It reads exactly how a headless agentic LLM would "reason" about software. It has enough DRM checks to smother a small rhino. The entire frontend is just DRM for other people's hard work.
I moved onto the Assassin's Creed 2 crack approach of spoofing the server itself (127.0.0.1 api.renderacceleratorstudio.com, my mock server responding to his asinine requests, ceiling, lease fabrication etc), this dude is sending your fingerprint data to the server (always online) regarding the scene and then computing the plan for rendering there and sending in back, so the whole JavaScript WebView Rust frontend is just a DRM charade.
This dude says he spent a year working on this. Yeah, working on the DRM. It's everywhere, once i beat /ceiling and other shit, I realized this dude slapped integrity checks into the fucking IPC stuff, had to patch Gate1Interceptor Gate1WhatNot and any time a file HIS APP doesn't properly clear, like current_session.txt, it refuses to start lmao. RAS.exe checks all the integrity of all the Gate1Shit, and vice versa, it's ridiculous, I've lost count of how many checks I've removed.
Anyways, I patched 99% of it, now am mostly dealing with him not testing this on system which have a 4090 and 5090 in tandem, so sometimes renders work, sometimes they don't. Also realized this shit pulls rendering device info from Daz's fucking log, and it won't work with Daz 4.24 Public Build because it's hardcoded for the log file of regular Daz 4.24.
I HAD TO REVERSE ENGINEER THE PLAN BITS HE COMPUTES ONLINE BY ERRORING OUT AND HIS OWN GUARDS TELLING ME THE ACCEPTABLE VALUES LMAO. And the ceiling fingerprint, lmao curr_w / curr_h. Bro. HAHAHAH.
I would not support this sham. In fact, I am considering making my own frontend and just publishing that for free and DRM free. Without all of the DRM-infested Rust + JavaScript WebView shit. The only valuable code is what he gatekeeps online (knobs for the actual quality software to ingest, hiding behind his DRM slop), which I solidly reversed and the community can finetune with knobs. I will apply all of this to one of his later releases once someone provides me with a dump, so he can't ask his his vibe coding LLM to hallucinate more checks.
Never in my life have I seen DRM this tightly coupled, this is 100% vibe coded. Or he is on steroid-infused autism. More thought went into DRM than anything else here, and I doubt even that was his original work.
Sorry about that. On it, I've terminated the online requirements (can be firewalled), there are 6 remaining checks I missed. Will update once it's up.
Yeah, I don't support these scummy practices. Especially since this seems to be a very hypocritical "fine for me, but not for you" thing since the dude is on Zonegfx.
Looks like the thing they gave me was not v1.3 (provide me with it if you want me to nuke that as well). I've removed the integrity checks on the open beta one.
Patched exe: https://www.mediafire.com/file/61i92wbzd9dhmx7/render-accelerator-studio.7z/file
I patched out their integrity checks, set the expiration date to 2100 and removed the licensing screen completely. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE EXTRA FILES IN the app folder because I didn't bother with those checks or removing the anti-debugging shit.
This is of little value to me since I have dual 5090s and I rarely use my 4090 rig other than setting up work for the render queue of DAZ 6, but it was nice to spread the wings of my harness stuff.
EDIT: I've neutered its "call home" abilities, but I didn't patch out the connection requirement. I'll do that when I wake up so you can fully firewall it.
I had Qwen 3.8 Flash Next abliterated and it cracked it in 37 minutes on my machine, now just have to figure out how to apply it for all machines for the 1.3 version and then I can take the 70k points.
