Sounds crazy but . . . ESO on an ipad?

Caroloces

Ran across this article in "How-To Geek" Newsletter.
http://www.howtogeek.com/241300/how-to-stream-games-with-nvidia-gamestream-to-any-computer-tablet-or-smartphone/

NVIDIA’s GameStream technology lets you stream games from a GeForce-powered Windows PC to another device. It only officially supports NVIDIA’s own Android-based SHIELD devices, but with a third-party open-source GameStream client known as Moonlight, you can stream games to Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs, iPhones, iPads, and non-SHIELD Android devices.

Hand_Bacon

Maybe ESO the card game...

Nestor

I would probably break the glass doing skill rotations....

I already go through a keyboard each year from my gaming.

khele23eb17_ESO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RM4aXKFcZQ

ESO on Android using Splashtop THD. The nice thing is that you can customize the touchscreen UI any way you want.

Miszou

I dunno about the iPad, but ESO runs quite well on a Windows Surface Pro 3.

Obviously, you have to turn the graphics down almost all the way to run it natively, but it works really well with Steam streaming over 5 ghz wifi. (2.4 ghz is just too slow and choppy).

In fact, I'm out of town at a conference this week, and I'm logging in to ESO every day to do my crafting, feed my mount etc. and it's working great. I don't think I'd go to Cyrodiil on this thing, but still... for a non-gaming tablet/laptop thing it's working really nicely.

Caroloces

Miszou wrote: »

I dunno about the iPad, but ESO runs quite well on a Windows Surface Pro 3.

Obviously, you have to turn the graphics down almost all the way to run it natively, but it works really well with Steam streaming over 5 ghz wifi. (2.4 ghz is just too slow and choppy).

In fact, I'm out of town at a conference this week, and I'm logging in to ESO every day to do my crafting, feed my mount etc. and it's working great. I don't think I'd go to Cyrodiil on this thing, but still... for a non-gaming tablet/laptop thing it's working really nicely.

Wait . . . Those are 2 separate events, right? The Steam streaming (forgive me, I've never tried this even though I do have Steam) takes place over a home network, and the out of town event was normal direct connection to the ESO server. Is that correct?

Yeah, I can't imagine doing Vet Maelstrom Arena on an ipad , but it sure would be nice to have a portable device you could curl up with to do low-key farming or crafting.

Voxicity

Grinding dungeons while taking a ***

This is the future

Lenikus

Sounds awful to play.... but....
Well, Console kids do it, might as heck take it further

Fuzzybrick

I play eso on my android. Nothing serious just crafting, normal quests, and banking. Connection isn't good enough to pvp or do a daily undaunted.

eventide03b14a_ESO

Why not just play the game on Surface Tablet? At least it runs a full version of Windows 10.

Kaktus

You can stream from an Xbox to any 8.1+ surface tablet, I use the surface 3. I get a stutter every 20 minutes or so from my slowish wifi but otherwise it works flawlessly, and even when it stutters it lasts about 3-4 seconds and I've never had any problem with that. Depending on distance to the actual console I can have the controller synced to the Xbox itself or just use a USB cable connected to the surface.

Even though the screen is smaller its the same resolution and I've actually gotten so used to the size of maps and text that playing on the tv is too hard to see sometimes.

Egonieser

I bought a shield k1 tablet specifically so I can play ESO while not at a PC and it runs great. Apart from the small'ish screen I am able to do all my usual things, even do some casual PvP (though seeing enemy alliance icons is a pain).

WalkingLegacy

Caroloces wrote: »

Miszou wrote: »

I dunno about the iPad, but ESO runs quite well on a Windows Surface Pro 3.

Obviously, you have to turn the graphics down almost all the way to run it natively, but it works really well with Steam streaming over 5 ghz wifi. (2.4 ghz is just too slow and choppy).

In fact, I'm out of town at a conference this week, and I'm logging in to ESO every day to do my crafting, feed my mount etc. and it's working great. I don't think I'd go to Cyrodiil on this thing, but still... for a non-gaming tablet/laptop thing it's working really nicely.

Wait . . . Those are 2 separate events, right? The Steam streaming (forgive me, I've never tried this even though I do have Steam) takes place over a home network, and the out of town event was normal direct connection to the ESO server. Is that correct?

Yeah, I can't imagine doing Vet Maelstrom Arena on an ipad , but it sure would be nice to have a portable device you could curl up with to do low-key farming or crafting.

Yes streaming it to another device, the device where the streaming comes from is the one that's working.

So in that instance the dudes surface pro is just the TV he's playing on.

Playing on tablet, you'd still need a gamepad, and if you have all the money to get a tablet to play on the couch then you have the kind of dough to do a PC/couch setup.

Miszou

Caroloces wrote: »

Miszou wrote: »

I dunno about the iPad, but ESO runs quite well on a Windows Surface Pro 3.

Obviously, you have to turn the graphics down almost all the way to run it natively, but it works really well with Steam streaming over 5 ghz wifi. (2.4 ghz is just too slow and choppy).

In fact, I'm out of town at a conference this week, and I'm logging in to ESO every day to do my crafting, feed my mount etc. and it's working great. I don't think I'd go to Cyrodiil on this thing, but still... for a non-gaming tablet/laptop thing it's working really nicely.

Wait . . . Those are 2 separate events, right? The Steam streaming (forgive me, I've never tried this even though I do have Steam) takes place over a home network, and the out of town event was normal direct connection to the ESO server. Is that correct?

Yeah, I can't imagine doing Vet Maelstrom Arena on an ipad , but it sure would be nice to have a portable device you could curl up with to do low-key farming or crafting.

Yea, that's right - I guess I could have worded that a bit better!

At home, I can stream (via Steam) the game to my surface and play with pretty graphics powered by my desktop gaming rig, while sitting on the couch with my Surface.

In the hotel, I'm just running the game natively on the Surface (Windows 10, i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Intel HD graphics), which "works", but I have to turn the graphics down so it looks like I'm playing something circa 1995, but it's good for crafting, banking etc.

Robbmrp

Vox wrote: »

Grinding dungeons while taking a ***

This is the future

How is that the future?! We have wireless laptops now!!!!!

Ummm.... can you pass the TP.....

trucqulent

tablets and smartphones have been close to or capable of running videogames for a while.

But I don't think the holdup is technology. The real question is "who want's to play on a tablet from a bus on their commute home".

Surely not I.

Mojmir

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RM4aXKFcZQ

ESO on Android using Splashtop THD. The nice thing is that you can customize the touchscreen UI any way you want.

What are you using for the on screen gamepad?

bikerangelo

OGLezard

i actually can do this easily with my shield tablet and my mouse and keyboard connected to the tablet. Silly easy and great for if I dont want to lug my laptop around. Good internet speeds at both locations makes this so easy to do via my desktop to tablet

seaef

trucqulent wrote: »

tablets and smartphones have been close to or capable of running videogames for a while.

But I don't think the holdup is technology. The real question is "who want's to play on a tablet from a bus on their commute home".

Surely not I.

I do. I spend 2 1/2 hours a day on the train and it would be great. No fighting for a seat with a table. No fighting for a power outlet because laptop power while gaming has the lifespan of a gnat when not plugged in.

But I'll have Albion Online for that since it's coming out on the iOS at launch.