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At the Rate tablet PCs are improving
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Stonecrusher Mortlock
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-02-11 18:13:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Stonecrusher Mortlock
how long till i get to play eve on one, undock, and have good FPS
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#2 - 2012-02-11 19:09:12 UTC
At the speed of battery improvements.

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Eveliy
Coronize
#3 - 2012-02-11 19:12:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Eveliy
Including the fact that CCP would also have to modify the existing controls for touchpads (as well as to create a UI that is identifiable/readable/usable on a tab screen)...a few years / never?
Velicitia
XS Tech
#4 - 2012-02-11 19:15:08 UTC
Eveliy wrote:
Including the fact that CCP would also have to modify the existing controls for touchpads...a few years?



this is :CCP: we're talking about. "Soon(tm)" (i.e. "Never") is probably a better assumptionBlink

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#5 - 2012-02-11 20:45:58 UTC
One of Asus tabs can already run EVE reasonably well on medium settings, as long as you keep it charging.

Though the rclick menus are a pain to bring up.
Ilany
Nightingale Enterprises
#6 - 2012-02-11 23:38:50 UTC
I bought an Asus netbook in 2010 that could just about manage EVE, but then Incarna came along and it no longer works. It said something about 3D shader models. Do tablets now have more advanced graphics cards than netbooks?
Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
#7 - 2012-02-12 00:51:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Obsidian Dagger
In theory my PHONE can run EvE, the hardware is capable enough.

Where you will run into problems is with the software phones/tablets run.

EvE looks for certain stuff from the software, the shader model being one of them. Even if you got the binary to run, via a Linux OS, the driver that is required to support shader model wont be there, and unless you write one from scratch yourself, there is slim to no chance you will be able to get ahold of one.

There MAY be some hope on the horizon in the form of Windows 8 - there are hints and rumors that it may be truly cross platform (running on both x86/x64 and ARM processors), but even then it is doubtful that windows EXE's as we know them would work. However, if M$ do things properly (and they seem to have been making more of an effort in that regard lately), it may be possible to get stuff like EvE to work with a recompile of the EvE exe. That would be up to CCP though.

tl:dr

Wrong kind of processors (ARM being in 99% of phones and tablets)
No OS support (Android/IOS etc)
No Shader Model support in the graphics drivers (Hardware may well support it - but the companies assembling the phones/tabs might not bother enabling those features in the board, or just not enable them in the drivers)