Windows 8 Tablet: Project 1999

[Razdeline]

Who has been having success with this?

The gap between PC and Tablets is comming to a close.

Bluetooth keyboard etc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUndd8DMDzU

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-tablet-2/

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/460139/20130423/surface-pro-tops-again-list-best-windows.htm#.UYVDPrWkLuM

[Swish]

Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with playing it on a PC or laptop? ;)

[Pringles]

Windows 8 is terrible, tablet or not.

[Swish]

Meanwhile, in the world of the 'telephone'

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/rotary.jpg

...just because.

[citizen1080]

Meanwhile, in the world of the 'telephone'

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/rotary.jpg

...just because.

Whats a "telephone" is that like a cellphone?

[Furinex]

I play on a surface pro @ 60 fps for 85% of the time. In EC its a bit lower but nothing to complain about. I love it. Probably the best investment Ive made in a long time. Its a goddamn laptop that looks like a tablet. i5, 4gb ram, integrated 4000 intel but whatever. it works great!

[Razdeline]

I play on a surface pro @ 60 fps for 85% of the time. In EC its a bit lower but nothing to complain about. I love it. Probably the best investment Ive made in a long time. Its a goddamn laptop that looks like a tablet. i5, 4gb ram, integrated 4000 intel but whatever. it works great!

Cool, and nothing wrong with playing on a PC. I actually prefer it. But for those of us who work or are out of the house often, it is nice to have the option to game.
(I get to play maybe 1 day a week now.)

Tablets in this fashion are the future. Having multi-platform capabilities(what Windows is doing), is closing the gap between the PC and Tablet.

[Razdeline]

Windows 8 is terrible, tablet or not.

I agree. But could care less if it runs the games I want to play.

[Razdeline]

Playing EQ on an 8" would be awesome.

[Cippofra]

I used to play on a single core 1ghz netbook with a 700ms ping. could only be better on something as fast as the surface

[webrunner5]

Hell I would think a Cellphone would have more power today than the PC we had in 1999 running EQ. :D

[Cippofra]

In terms of simple calculations per second, my 2 year old now ancient galaxy s2 is most likely a couple hundred times faster than my pc from 99

[a_gnoll_pup]

Surface Pro is possibly the best $1000 EQ machine I have ever bought. I was playing EQ in one of my college classes.. great investment for boring lectures.

I will see about getting pictures of it playing EQ.

[Razdeline]

Surface Pro is possibly the best $1000 EQ machine I have ever bought. I was playing EQ in one of my college classes.. great investment for boring lectures.

I will see about getting pictures of it playing EQ.

Pls show me good sir!

[August]

If you are experiencing problems playing EQ on a Windows 8 PC / Surface please PM me with what error you are seeing and what the conditions are where you are experiencing a crash. I can get the information to the right people and roll out a fix if it is a broad impact bug.

Cheers,

August

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

go desktop or go home. Pentium 95 for P99. SLI voodoo2 cards and win 98. and get that wireless mouse outta my face yo.

[webrunner5]

Intel Pentium II 266MHz
32MB RAM
4GB HD
ATI Rage Pro 3D card w/ 2MB
CD-ROM drive
56k dial-up modem on an AOL
Windows 95

Nec 19" Flat screen CRT monitor. It was Heavy.

Pretty much what I remember having in 1999.

[Swish]

go desktop or go home. Pentium 95 for P99. SLI voodoo2 cards and win 98. and get that wireless mouse outta my face yo.

[AceOfAngels]

I use a program called Kainy and can actually play pretty well from my note 2. Mostly watch camps from around the house /shrug

[mwatt]

I am running EQ on Windows 8 with no issues on a desktop PC. I did have to full around with allowing it to run as Admin and set compatibility to XP service pack 3 though.

There were issues prior to doing those things. I would crash zoning sometimes and almost always crash when I logged out as well. All those troubles are no more however.

[cadiz]

Who has been having success with this?

The gap between PC and Tablets is comming to a close.


Extremely doubtful, this is said every few years. Tablets have inherent usability issues
for long periods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#.22Gorilla_arm.22), an external keyboard does help but it will never fully replace a PC. They certainly have their place for things but they won't replace PC's just like 'the cloud' won't replace local storage.

So far as getting it to work, you're out of luck unless it's an x86/Intel based tablet since
EQ binaries would need to be recompiled to work on ARM and most tablets are ARM architecture.

[Jorgam]

I am running EQ on Windows 8 with no issues on a desktop PC. I did have to full around with allowing it to run as Admin and set compatibility to XP service pack 3 though.

There were issues prior to doing those things. I would crash zoning sometimes and almost always crash when I logged out as well. All those troubles are no more however.

How did you get this to work? I have a new desktop with windows8 as well. I have mine set to run as Admin and compatible to XP service pack 3 like you. I can select a server from the list (project1999 and such) but when I click play everquest, the window resizes to a corner of my monitor and ceases to function. I have to log out of my profile on the computer in order to clear it, as windows8 has some real issues with ending programs that stall out.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[joppykid]

How did you get this to work? I have a new desktop with windows8 as well. I have mine set to run as Admin and compatible to XP service pack 3 like you. I can select a server from the list (project1999 and such) but when I click play everquest, the window resizes to a corner of my monitor and ceases to function. I have to log out of my profile on the computer in order to clear it, as windows8 has some real issues with ending programs that stall out.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Had this issue as well need to download WinEq and should fix it

[katrik]

I have a Surface RT I got for free at a convention in TX. I wonder if it will play EQ..

[Jorgam]

Had this issue as well need to download WinEq and should fix it

I just tried downloading WinEq and I got the 2.04 version. It didn't work. What version did you have?

Thanks

[cadiz]

I have a Surface RT I got for free at a convention in TX. I wonder if it will play EQ..

Looks like you're out of luck with the RT as it's an ARM device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT) unless you can find/steal the original source code for titanium and compile it.

[jarinaEQ1]

I love to Android version for Tegra2 :) to play on my TF101G