DROID does: EQ

[ShadowWulf]

Originally Posted by Desert [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why would you have to do something silly like redesign anything? linux can play windows games natively using wine.

i don't see a reason why it wouldn't run any software that doesn't require dedicated video. provided the phone is robust enough (has enough memory, etc), and that wine supports the piece of software you're trying to run of course. http://appdb.winehq.org/

the droid's 256mb ram seems to be more of a limiting factor than anything else right now.

Nope, way off base. The phone does not operate on x86 architecture. You would either need to re-write the game itself or rewrite WINE. As is, wine will not and does not run on ANDROID. Ive flashed debian on this thing and it still doesn't run. The only workaround I know of is to have wine run in a JAVA app....yea. Im not gonna tango with that one. And the ANDROID OS also has no X libraries, which even if not used are required for it to run, as well as im being informed several other different libraries that are completly missing and not integrated. To do so would require, again, massive rewrites of the game (an android exclusive version written from the bottom up) or ANDROID itself or a completly rewritten true linux OS designed for the hardware, with proper drivers...and then it wouldn't be a phone anymore.

Also, you may not of read the full run down i gave earlier but it currently runs ANY app i tell it to, dedicated video or NOT it makes no difference as the actual processing and rendering is not handled on the droid but the host PC.
See my EvE online videos (Which actually runs BETTER than eq does!) for an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1wf3qSxgQ
Or maybe you would like to see Borderlands running on it instead? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As per my comments, FPS is around 20-30 even in borderlands, but obviously controlling a FPS with your phone when its setup for PC hardware sucks. So i don't recommend using it to play a PC FPS without some intense key bindings to make it doable.
Again this was recorded one handed with another cellphone (an ERIS) so obviously its not great and it looks WAY laggier than it really is. Also at one point the controls bugged out and I had to hop in and out of the shell as youll see 1/4 of the way in. Yea, its a boring video but its just for demonstrations (And i filmed it not 5 minutes ago for this post...)


Ive reflashed Froyo 2.2 (Using Bugless Beast v0.2) and the newest baseband updates. The phone now scores higher (nearly double) in linpack processor tests that the incredible or the non-2.2 Nexus One do stock, while only being 300MHz faster than their processors.

Tests with EQ have been surprisingly good, relatively smooth and responsive now even full screened and max zoom out on the camera, with the client staying set to max 1680x1050 res and all eye candy turned on. A nifty performance boost.

To the earlier posters: Yes this works on any Android phone (Or most others for that matter). Read my earlier posts for A LOT more information but the largest impact will simply be your raw CPU speed, hence why a custom ROM and a good overclock is what takes this out of "nifty" and into the realm of being actually playable (mostly....don't PvP on your phone!).

And, one of these days ill have my wife actually HOLD the damn came for me instead of one handing it. Maybe even commentary. One of these videos is almost to 2500 views in 3 weeks which while its not much in youtube terms its a nice boost to my continued interest in this project to know people are actually interested in it.
I do accept charitable donations in buffs, hugs or plat also =) Seems i get a nice assortment of hugs lately so im content.