Q. Can You Game On A Cheap Atom Windows Tablet? A. Yes!

[iamdarkyoshi]

So I decided to test steam in home streaming with my dell venue 8 pro tablet. 

 

I connected my PS3 controller to it, streamed rocket league from my main PC, and off we go!

 

Perfect 60FPS framerate on the venue 8, and very little delay.

 

Totally playable on rocket league.

 

As for running games natively, the tablet can play terraria with the gfx reduced, fullscreen (something my laptop can't do)

 

It plays duck game perfectly (I would sure hope so)

 

And the tablet didn't get very hot during any of this. Quite impressive.

 

So as a cheap diy streaming based "gaming" tablet, I would say that the venue 8 works very nicely!

 

Now to design a controller mount... Even though the tablet is rather... heavy...

[themctipers]

Now try minecraft and YouTube.  

[AlanAlan]

16 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Now try minecraft and YouTube.  

 

22 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

So I decided to test steam in home streaming with my dell venue 8 pro tablet. 

 

I connected my PS3 controller to it, streamed rocket league from my main PC, and off we go!

 

Perfect 60FPS framerate on the venue 8, and very little delay.

 

Totally playable on rocket league.

 

As for running games natively, the tablet can play terraria with the gfx reduced, fullscreen (something my laptop can't do)

 

It plays duck game perfectly (I would sure hope so)

 

And the tablet didn't get very hot during any of this. Quite impressive.

 

So as a cheap diy streaming based "gaming" tablet, I would say that the venue 8 works very nicely!

 

Now to design a controller mount... Even though the tablet is rather... heavy...

Yeah I would like to see others games and programs run. I would also like to see a tutorial.

[iamdarkyoshi]

So for steam in home streaming, my tablet runs a standard desktop version of windows. I just installed steam and clicked stream.

tipers, gotta stream minecraft, and I just use an app for youtube

[ShadowCaptain]

Doom 3 played perfectly natively on my atom 

 

in fact a lot of old games will like HL1 etc 

 

 

streaming works great

[Marche90]

Those tablets are the little devices that could, and it's such a shame that Intel killed the mobile projects. Who know what else we could have gotten...