Has anybody tried Oolite on a UMPC ?

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Has anybody tried Oolite on a UMPC ?

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Has anyone tried running Oolite on a UMPC device (Asus Eee, Acer Aspire One, Dell MiniNote, MSI Wind, etc) ?

I'm looking at getting the Acer (probably with Linux OS, but maybe WinXP) and I'm curious about anybodys experience of using such a device to play Oolite.

Any comments, good or bad, would be appreciated.
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It should work. Putting in a lot of OXPs may slow down the game considerably because of the limited performance of these machines, so that may become an issue. The standard game should be fine, though.
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Post by Gunney_Plym »

Thanks Polyh :)

After posting the above I decided to do a search :oops: and found the below this https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4525.

Looks quite promising :D
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Inspired by your question, I just installed Oolite on an Asus EeePC 1000H. With lots of "eye-candy" OXPs installed, the frame rate drops to more or less unplayable in busy situations, but with only a couple of ship OXPs and wireframe graphics, it runs very smoothly indeed.

It seems to me that Oolite's code is not as efficient as it could be on UMPCs. The frame rates are lower than one might expect given the relatively decent power of these machines.
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Isnt the key problem that UMPCs generally do not have 3d hardware, so everything is done in software?
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The Asus EEE 70x series have got a intel 915GML chipset with integrated hardware accelerated graphics. It shares the memory with the CPU, but it supports hardware accelerated D3D and OpenGL. The 915GML is very lowkey in terms of performance and production (and costs of course) and it's old, too, it was released in 2005 - but it still does the job better than the dreaded SiS chipsets.

I do not know the exacts specs of other UMPCs, but it's down the chipset.
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The Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000 have the Intel GMA950 integrated graphics - the same as my Mac Mini. I've not had any speed issues with Oolite on my GPU.
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Post by Gunney_Plym »

Thanks for the input guys.

I'll be getting the kit later in the year regardless, it's nice to know that I'll be able play Oolite on it. Maybe not the with all the shiny stuff that I play with on the PC but it will be better than not playing at all :)
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Wolfwood wrote:
It seems to me that Oolite's code is not as efficient as it could be on UMPCs.
Oolite is not particularly efficient on anything.
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Ahruman wrote:
Wolfwood wrote:
It seems to me that Oolite's code is not as efficient as it could be on UMPCs.
Oolite is not particularly efficient on anything.
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