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EVE on a netbook?
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Crae Matreki
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-10-21 10:03:31 UTC
Is it currently possible to play EVE on a netbook? It'd be nice to be able to do something constructive with the 90 minutes I spend on trains each day, but I'm worried that EVEs graphic requirements might be a bit too high for the poor ickle things..

Any (nice) suggestions?
Guthris
The Shard Restaurant
#2 - 2011-10-21 10:08:11 UTC

I played eve on an Acer lowest spec netbook during fanfest.

about 15 fps in station and 23fps outside. turn off all grafix and effects and you can mine, chat or run PI with ease
toxicvega
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-10-21 10:09:06 UTC
Yes it is possible. I did it a couple years ago. Screen size makes it bad for PVP ro PVE, but skill training and such are fine.

Asus Netbook. Intel Atom 1.6.
Cpt Greagor
Liquid Relief
#4 - 2011-10-21 10:28:02 UTC
Yes, as others have said, it is possible to run eve on a netbook.

I have done so on a few occasions when I couldn't get to my normal pc.

Also, as they have said, you can do simple things such as queue skills, PI, S&I, chat, but not much else.

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Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2011-10-21 10:42:04 UTC
The Shader Model 3 requirement has shut out many early netbooks.
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#6 - 2011-10-21 10:50:41 UTC
I wish CCP would make some sort of thin client to be run on notebooks or tablets. For skill training, market check.. industry.. etc.

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Deviana Sevidon
Jades Falcon Guards
#7 - 2011-10-21 11:20:24 UTC
Also one day the system requirements of EVE will increase again and if you just bought a netbook that barely fills the current minimum requirements you might be forced to replace it or quit.

....as if 10,058 Goon voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.
Stonecold Steve
I N E X T R E M I S
Tactical Narcotics Team
#8 - 2011-10-21 11:30:46 UTC
i run 2 clients on my HP dv7600 laptop with all settings on minimum. Have done so for about 9months.. soon, verry soon there should be an normal pc again so i can enjoy the normal glamour and glitter candy eve has to offer my eyes.

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Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#9 - 2011-10-21 11:45:36 UTC
People should stop buying netbooks expecting to be able to play any 3d gfx based games. They aren't made for that. If you want to play games/Eve then spend the extra $200-300 and buy a laptop. Netbooks are designed to be low performance for web browsing, email, writing docs, etc. Not gaming.

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Htrag
The Carebear Stare
Hydroponic Zone
#10 - 2011-10-21 12:22:41 UTC
I've played on many netbooks over the years, sometimes even dual accounting.

It's not ideal, but the main issue is that the resource requirements are much higher since Incarna, even with CQ disabled.

You'll want one that supports resolution of 1366x768

Whatever "dev" it was that removed the pod squish sound probably never even logged into the game.
Rico Minali
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2011-10-21 14:34:15 UTC
My Acer Aspire On eplayed well enough to pve on for almost a year and a half, tehn with teh last patch it finally stopped, its to do with what your GFX is. there used to be a tester on site somewhere, use that.

So, the answer is - maybe. Do the spec test, I think it is mostly to do with what shader model your netbooks on board can use.

Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing.
Arethanerielle Xhiril
Black Plasma Corporation
#12 - 2011-10-21 14:59:32 UTC
played in on an eee-pc with constant map up pretty conviniently
Igualmentedos
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-10-21 15:22:54 UTC
Arethanerielle Xhiril wrote:
played in on an eee-pc with constant map up pretty conviniently


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Psychophantic
#14 - 2011-10-21 22:24:53 UTC
Brooks Puuntai wrote:
People should stop buying netbooks expecting to be able to play any 3d gfx based games. They aren't made for that. If you want to play games/Eve then spend the extra $200-300 and buy a laptop.


Yeah, cause everyone knows laptops are where its at for 3d gaming.

INB4 heat issues when WIS is released.
DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2011-10-21 22:29:33 UTC
More importantly, can I run EVE on my abacus?
coolzero
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2011-10-21 22:33:21 UTC
pretty sure i can run it on my daughters asus 1215N(tho i wont as she has to use it for school)

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X Dead
Doomheim
#17 - 2011-10-21 22:47:11 UTC
More complicated, but you can also try connecting to a remote session running on a higher end machine at home or wherever (i.e. thin client on netbook).

It can still sometimes have resolution problems (depending on the netbook; the larger 12" ones are fairly reasonable though) but it does away with much of the "on-board performance" problem, shifting it to "must have a somewhat bigger connection" (not usually an issue) and "introduces a bit of lag" (often not as much as people think) and "a bit more complicated to set up and requires another system" problems.