Runes of Magic US / AU

I'm waiting until this winter for when the Asus Transformer Book V comes out to try to run it on a tablet :) ( & mebbe the phone too. ;) )

I did some Google Fu on the Surface Pro 3. I don't know a lot about the CPUs other than that they seem to be mobile versions of the Intel Core i3, i5, and i7. The i5 versions (depending on built-in storage) seem to be priced from $750US to just under $1000US, while the i7 versions seem to be priced from $1250US and up.

There's plenty of system RAM (up to 4GB), but the disturbing thing is that the video subsection is integrated (Intel HD4000 series). I've not been able to find out how much dedicated VRAM is available, but on most desktops and laptops using Intel HD4000 series video chipsets, they tend to come with at least 128MB of VRAM. That *should* be enough to display RoM's video, probably with reduced settings.

And remember that the Surface is essetially wi-fi only (wireless connection), with all the attendant problems that can cause. There's no external port for a wired 'net connection, unless you want to tie up the USB port with an Ethernet adapter.

While some people have had issues running the game under Windows 8/8.1, usually touchpad issues, it should work.

I would strongly suggest that, before plunking down a megabuck or more for one of these tablets, you see if you can find someone, or a friendly-enough store clerk, who would be willing to download and install RoM on their (or a store) Surface Pro 3 and see if it will run.

In other words, Caveat Emptor.

I know you might be able to make it happen, although might look horrible

I recently got a Dell 17R laptop with 2 gig video card, I7 (which btw for laptops only I7s are quad core last I checked), dual hard drive trays (yay for ssd and standard drives), and 8 gigs of ram and picked it up for about 750 shipped on ebay from a retailers. 17 inch screen, full sized keyboard... and it runs RoM GREAT.


If you are truly thinking tablet for the portability, you are going to get hit on video performance... not enough room for a dedicated video card. Heck even most laptops you got to be careful and make SURE they have a dedicated card. But seriously if you intend to do anything besides logging in and chatting you will be better off with a laptop for portability and playability

surface tablets are all limited to dual core processors (even the i7 version - http://ark.intel.com/products/75114/Inte…-up-to-3_30-GHz)

The integrated graphics might have 128MB dedicated memory but depending on bios and os settings can go up to 1792 MB

Wouldn't recommend it. While doable with the higher end tablets, it's cheaper to get a laptop with the appropriate settings. The minimum you would need on a laptop to run two accounts at once is an i5 core, 6 GB RAM, and 250 GB hard drive. I used to have a lenovo ideapad p500 that had these specs and only spent about $400 USD. Also, I had enough VM to run both ROM and an old republic game together without lag or crashing.

You should also remember how bad the memory leak is with this game. Not sure how a tablet would survive that.

Unless his commute is several hours, i don't think he'd be concerned about running 2 accounts at the same time. Heck I'd be more concerned about the control scheme on a tablet.

The game really doesn't require that much. It's ok to have a 120gb drive, it's ok to have 2gb ram, crashing is of course still a problem but that's just something you have to manage yourself with things like cleanmem and very low settings.

The general answer overall would be it isn't an optimal solution for playing regularly, but if just being used for commuting it is more than capable. The biggest issue would be how's the network coverage on that train.

If the train is anything like the busses in the Iowa City/Coralville/Cedar Rapids areas, they all have an AP on the bus & the bus gets its wifi from the surrounding towers. I've heard that it's pretty slick.

& I would LOVE it if RW would think about going mobile ( phones as well as tablets ) with RoM. The hardest thing, really is typing... :))

It'd be nice to be able to move individual action bar boxes around, heck turn them into circles. Actually, in terms of combat, someone on a tablet could be "faster" than someone using a keyboard... you have access to all of the action bar items just by tapping them instead of moving your mouse around to the boxes. Yes, I know you could map them to keys, but think about it... tapping the box whenever you feel like eet. :)

there is a mobile app for RoM that allows chat, AH, mail, etc. while I wouldn't trust it, it does exist.

I believe it is on the android market for like $2.

I am NOT encouraging people to use it with any accounts they care about(support prolly can't help if u are "hacked"), it is something to look at while discussing this.

full combat on a phone might be a bit much IMO. screen too tiny...

Slightly askew, but is it possible to play ROM on a ps4? I've not tried it... yet....

unless a PS4 is using an intel x86/64 architecture running Linux or an X86 emulator... I would guess not?

Edit:

I was rushed when I posted that & didn't flush out my thoughts :) Basically, unless Sony lets people install Windows or Linux or someone jailbreaks the PS4, there's not going to be an easy way to get RoM on there.

Having said that... I believe there is a port of Wine for FreeBSD ( what the PS4 runs ) that could work, but I've never tried running wine on any BSD boxes.

OTOH anyone w/ an XBox One want to try to run RoM on their console? The One runs 2 versions of Windoze 8 on top of a real-time OS ( like a hypervisor ): one is the regular Windoze 8 that's on desktops & the other is a super-lean Windoze 8 w/ DX 12.

ive had issues getting wine and Rom running on Linux. Now I haven't done too much work to fix issues, it was more of a 1 hour play around. I figured after an hour I would just install a dual boot and boot into windows if I wanted to play rom... Less work

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there is a mobile app for RoM that allows chat, AH, mail, etc. while I wouldn't trust it, it does exist.

I believe it is on the android market for like $2.

I am NOT encouraging people to use it with any accounts they care about(support prolly can't help if u are "hacked"), it is something to look at while discussing this.

full combat on a phone might be a bit much IMO. screen too tiny...

Yes, such an app exists but it is in no way affiliated with Gameforge and using it technically violates the TOS as you are providing your game account username and password to a third party.
In short, please do not use it!