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#1 Apr 10 2015 at 5:38 PM Rating: Good
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Run EQ on a surface or any other windows tablet. I ask because considering purchasing a tablet that way when at work can play. I work as security mainly nights in an abandoned building.

I figured all I need is $10.00 mouse and maybe usb keyboard, unless I get the surface which already has an optional keyboard.

My concern will the processor, ram and video graphics be enough.

Edited, Apr 10th 2015 7:45pm by cjguy
#2 Apr 10 2015 at 5:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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Interesting question. If we aren't their with the technology yet we have to be close.

Having burned out a laptop in short order playing mmo's I'd wonder about heat issues though.

Could you just hotspot a cheap laptop to your cell device? [no idea if that would work... better make sure you have a friendly data plan though]
#3 Apr 10 2015 at 6:49 PM Rating: Good
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I have 5 gigs of data can tether/hotspot with my phone which with my understanding is more than enough. Guess can spend $40.00 get a cooling pad.
#4 Apr 10 2015 at 8:00 PM Rating: Good
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I normally box 4 with my g73 and have hot-spotted through my s-4 on many occasions.
Data usage is not large, I used to 3box on a 54k modem.
I have a 1 gig data plan and have boxing all 4 for 3-4 hours a half dozen times a billing cycle on many occasions without exceeding the cap.
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#5 Apr 16 2015 at 5:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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I have three boxed on a laptop at times with no issue for years when I am away from my desktop machine. And I know of at least two people I have met in the past few years that play through a hotspot tether. As said above as long as you have enough data, you will be fine. I did know another guy who used a hotspot that would occasionally have issues going linkdead in certain situations, but I think that was more of an issue with his carrier than anything. Even with him it was not often, just at times, and I do not know if there was a common catalyst involved causing it or if it just sometimes flared up. It got annoying during raids when it happened lol. But yes, you can play on a lot of laptops just fine and hotspots are used by people without trouble. Not sure about the Surface question, as mentioned it would depend on graphics hardware and ram.

I think it still holds true that each instance of EQ takes roughly two gigs of ram nowadays (seen that tossed around). It seems to be the truth because I had a computer I boxed on break down and used a back up that I threw together that ran Windows XP and four gigs of ram and all of a sudden I could two box just fine but would have indescribably insane lag and lock up after a couple of minutes trying to boot in a third account. On my new Windows 7 box with 16 gigs of ram I have run up to six separate instances of EQ with no lag at all. EQ (used to be at least, since it is older) a more RAM intensive than graphics card intensive program, though modern optimizations may have rebalanced that some. It is hard to say because I also have a higher end graphics card, but I know the memory made a massive difference. All of this is not exact, but I know it is at least partly accurate. YMMV but as long as you have a halfway decent graphics card and enough ram. EQ is very easy to run on many different levels of configuration depending on the number of accounts you have running at the same time.

Edited, Apr 16th 2015 7:09pm by Rotxam
#6 Apr 19 2015 at 3:12 PM Rating: Good
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I play exclusively on my surface, works great!
#7 Apr 19 2015 at 5:06 PM Rating: Good
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I play exclusively on my surface, works great!


Bluetooth on the mouse and keyboard?
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#8 Apr 20 2015 at 5:33 AM Rating: Good
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i actually use the surface keyboard. It works pretty well although occasionally the touch pad can pick up some mouse presses but that's probably cuz i rest my hand there when i shouldn't. I use an arc mouse (it's Bluetooth) that i love. some times i do notice that the surface heats up but I don't do any extra cooling and I've never gotten hot enough that I'm worried. Pretty great experience all things considering.

Edited, Apr 20th 2015 7:34am by theSisco
#9 Apr 20 2015 at 5:35 AM Rating: Good
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I should also say that I tend to run a bunch of tabs on chrome while doing this (gotta keep my quest info easy to find) and some background programs too. So the surface seems very capable for eq to me
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