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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Is anyone else using FPSC on a Netbook ?

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Conjured Entertainment
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Posted: 9th Feb 2011 23:48 Edited at: 10th Feb 2011 00:02
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I searched this forum for "Netbook" and only found 1 thread by Bond1 back in 2009.
Needless to say, it was locked.
I didn't see many posts there to go on, so I thought I would ask pretty much the same question and see if there is any difference in the result now.

Anyway, I have been testing a 15 watt solar panel with a 12 watt dvd/tv (7 inch) with great results. (with a 7amp charge controller and a 12v lawn & garden battery
So I picked up 4 more 15 watt panels, and a little 30 watt Netbook.
I'm going off the grid soon, so I am going to give this 30watt Netbook a try with FPSC!
While I am pretty sure that FPSC v118 will crawl on this Netbook because of the little 1.6ghz Atom processor, I can still have fun with this thing for browsing the forum.

So, is anyone else running FPSC on a Netbook?

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 00:28
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Is it even possible with decent FPS?


if so... maybe a notebook fpsc game contest?

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 02:31 Edited at: 10th Feb 2011 02:32
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Quote: "Is it even possible with decent FPS?"

So far, I have to say yes, it is possible with fairly decent FPS.
That is, if you think about 15 FPS is decent, because I am getting like 14 FPS with FPSC v118 Beta 8, but that is a small room with only one enemy.
Not exactly ideal for gaming, but that is enough for testing scripts and what not, like viewing custom entities while working on them.
I guess the Netbooks are okay for testing custom media during its development, but not really up to par for building a game level.

Maybe someone else has fugured out how to improve on the fps though, I don't know.
I'm just getting started, but I was testing a talker.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 05:40
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I have been working on getting an off grid system running. In the next two years I want to be completely off the grid. I have found the best computer easily available right now is the Mac Mini. I have the 2009 model which is not as efficient as the new models, but still get good numbers on energy usage. Running OS X I can watch a DVD or a movie on an external hard drive (USB powered) at around 16 watts. XP on bootcamp increases the wattage numbers by about two watts. My mini has 4 gigs memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video and 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor. My numbers running games varies between 16 and 30 watts depending on the game. I have an 18 inch LCD monitor that draws about 24 watts. If you don't have one already you should pick up a "Kill A Watt" meter. They are cheap and let you know how much current you are using. Good luck on your system

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 17:45
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If you consider a Alienware M15x a notebook, then yes, I'm using one.

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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 19:02
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Quote: "notebook"

He said netbook not notebook...

I have a netbook with a slow Atom processor and FPSC does work,but the framerate is nowhere near good.

But then again,Ghost recon 1 runs very slowly on it , so the whole thing is pretty weak (not that it is designed for this purpose anyway...)


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Posted: 10th Feb 2011 20:10
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Quote: "He said netbook not notebook..."


My bad...

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I use a netbook for development work - like Conjured said, it's fine for testing, trying out ideas and so on. Also it is good to see what your finished game looks like on a different platform in case anyone who downloaded it tried.
A fully rendered game looks a bit odd because of the screen ratio, but the games will, more or less, run.
Not a main dev machine though.



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