Silent-Hunter
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Will the Pandora be able to play Java games, like Minecraft?
Set the graphics to fast (as opposed to fancy, it's an option) and decrease the render distance to normal or even short, and you should see a huge speed boost. It's the blending that comes with fancy graphics mode that I've found eats the most CPU.I think the real problem (well, the OpenGL problem is real, but theoretically solvable), is that Minecraft is horribly inefficient. I can barely run it on my Athlon 64 laptop (yeah, it's old, but it has a 2 GHz CPU and 1GB of memory).
Yeah, this is the only way it's playable at all. It's still not as smooth as it is on my slightly more modern dual-core PC, though.Set the graphics to fast (as opposed to fancy, it's an option) and decrease the render distance to normal or even short, and you should see a huge speed boost. It's the blending that comes with fancy graphics mode that I've found eats the most CPU.I think the real problem (well, the OpenGL problem is real, but theoretically solvable), is that Minecraft is horribly inefficient. I can barely run it on my Athlon 64 laptop (yeah, it's old, but it has a 2 GHz CPU and 1GB of memory).
Dual core shouldn't make a difference as Minecraft is single threaded.Yeah, this is the only way it's playable at all. It's still not as smooth as it is on my slightly more modern dual-core PC, though.
Being a standalone application (not browser applet based) that doesn't appear to use any non-standard components (like Minecraft does for OpenGL) it should run just fine.What about a Java application... like Moneydance?
I know, but I was searching for a way to express "several years newer and more powerful" in a couple of words. :unsure:Dual core shouldn't make a difference as Minecraft is single threaded.
Could be - the laptop is a Geforce 4 Go 440, and the desktop is an 8800 GTS.It's a strange thing then. I've heard people with 1.2Ghz machines say they have no problem with far rendering, and people with 2.4Ghz machines say it's painfully slow at short rendering. All I can say is "WTF Notch?"
I suspect the graphics card actually plays a lot into this. Perhaps your laptops built in GPU is exceptionally poor? I know that tended to be the case in years past, though I don't know if that is still true or if it was true two years ago.
subset of full opengl, it's what embedded things like the pandora or modern phones useP.S. What the heck is OpenGL ES?
Can't I install regular OpenGL on it? I mean, my old laptop ran OpenGL, and it had half the CPU power of the Pandora.subset of full opengl, it's what embedded things like the pandora or modern phones useP.S. What the heck is OpenGL ES?
it's all dependant on the graphics chip, while a modern graphics card for your desktop/laptop might support opengl, the graphics chip in the omap doesn'tCan't I install regular OpenGL on it? I mean, my old laptop ran OpenGL, and it had half the CPU power of the Pandora.subset of full opengl, it's what embedded things like the pandora or modern phones useP.S. What the heck is OpenGL ES?
For TI to make a fully OpenGL compliant driver, they'd need to pay extra licensing to get the information about the SGX. They chose not to pay that fee, so they don't get the spec sheets they need to write the driver.(though actually the hardware does, but TI haven't made a full opengl driver for it, firstly because it's an embedded soc targetted at phones etc, and secondly because they're lazy i guess, if someone crazy enough wanted to they could probably write a driver, but we're talking very crazy with a lot of indepth knowledge of the chip etc)