Hey everyone! Just wondering if any one has successfully gotten half life 2 or portal to work on their nexus 9. I think it should work using gltools but everytime I try it always crashes. Shouldnt it work with the tegra k1 processor?
I tried Portal but it crashes after the Valve logo.
The N9 has a different CPU architecture (ARM64) that the NVidia SHIELD which is 32bit.
K1 Trine 2 crashes also. Oh well.
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As the title suggests, from the specs the device is given. This should be possible. Since the tablet is just now coming out, there are few forums for it. Even the Nvidia forums don't have a section for it, let alone XDA's forum. Which is why this is under modding.
The Nvidia Shield Tablet meets the Windows 8.1 requirements and uses intel chipsets. It's not a matter of if as much as when. Which is my request to the devs. Make the tablet either dual boot windows 8.1 and android or a full install of windows 8.1
Best of luck to you all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJSWe6Ane5A
At 2:39, you get the kernal build number that comes in the stock tablet. I know very little about kernals so I leave that to your discretion.
If anyone has any comments or relevant information to help developers with pushing a windows build into the tablet please feel free speak.
Are there any forums on xda for the Shield Tablet? Its running android, and its most likely rootable.
Sincereless said:
[Update]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJSWe6Ane5A
At 2:39, you get the kernal build number that comes in the stock tablet. I know very little about kernals so I leave that to your discretion.
If anyone has any comments or relevant information to help developers with pushing a windows build into the tablet please feel free speak.
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Anybody try to root this with towelroot?
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Anybody try to root this with towelroot?
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Yes i just got mine and rooted it with towelroot. works great, got xposed framwork up and running.
Wait wait wait. The Shield Tablet has Intel chipsets? So I can run Desktop mode and say install Steam and play lower end games if this became feasible? I'm almost positive already that Nvidia said that the Tegra K1 has DirectX capabilities, I would LOVE to play games like Halo PC and other lower end titles on this tablet! Especially if someone made drivers that recognized the Shield Controller as an XInput device!
Which is why I started this thread. To see what the devs have to say about this. If there is any chance XDA devs can do this, it will almost certainly change the scope of gaming at home and on the go.
On a side note, there are already videos of the tegra K1 running the dolphin emulator. While previous K1 devices could only run games to a certain extent, over at the Dolphin forums the devs there are already discussing full speed emulation with almost all Gamecube games and some Wii games. For Dolphin it comes down to CPU strength since both consoles only run on 1 core. While the tablet is quad core, the software can't connect to the other 2 cores due to information process paths which leaves 1 core(They managed 2 cores as an option, not sure how) The Dolphin emu needs to atleast 2 times that to run gamecube(485mhz) games and 4 times for the Wii(800 mhz). The Nvidia Tablet is a 2ghz. Which just isn't strong enough to run wii games. So getting Windows ported over is important for overclocking the cpu efficiently to a level Wii games can handle, and pc games a bonus.
Nope, nope, nope.
Hey, guys. I just randomly ran across this thread, and I wanted to let you know that the reason why nobody has ported Windows 8 to the nVidia shield tablet is that it uses an ARM processor. Yes, this processor is made by Intel, but it is an Intel MOBILE processor, not a full x86 architecture processor.
So, although it may take some reading for you to understand the basic incompatibilities here, I will tell you that running Windows 8 on this thing is not possible in any universe. The only Windows OS which will run on an ARM processor is Windows RT. But everyone hates Windows RT, and not a single Windows RT device has been made since 2013.
However, on a happier note, Android 5.0 Lollipop does add support for x86 and 64bit processors. So, a future in which we have dual booting Windows 8 / Android tablets is not unfeasible.
Hi all I received my Mipad to day and I was wondering where I could get the last version of HL2 and portal.
I installed the V23 of both its working but not optimized.
Thanks for your help
Raphael
try GLTools if you have rooted device, with that app i could run portal on non tegra device(Adreno 330) with some lags, but it works... when you have nvidia gpu it should run a lot better i think... search for "gltools portal" and follow an instructions
raphystilmode said:
Hi all I received my Mipad to day and I was wondering where I could get the last version of HL2 and portal.
I installed the V23 of both its working but not optimized.
Thanks for your help
Raphael
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What do you mean with "not optimized"?
I played it on MIUI and now on CM, works smooth and with nice graphics.
How do you play those on the mipad since no controller is compatible with them ?
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How do you play those on the mipad since no controller is compatible with them ?
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Well I dont know about anyone else but my nYKo works great.
i played with ipega bluetooth also works for hl2 and portal and any other tegra games, with my mi pad
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How do you play those on the mipad since no controller is compatible with them ?
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My Xiaomi Bluetooth Gamepad works fine with the Mi Pad.
MiPad have serious thermal throttling problem. It will slow down a lot in less than a minute. An useless K1 device.
Hi, I was wondering, that since the Nexus 9 has the same kind of processor in it as the nVidia tablet, would you be able to play for example the Linux version of Dota 2?
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Hi, I was wondering, that since the Nexus 9 has the same kind of processor in it as the nVidia tablet, would you be able to play for example the Linux version of Dota 2?
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Unless there's an ARM port of DotA 2 then certainly not, sorry.
Question to whoever can answer: With the SHIELD tablet and Nexus 9 sharing the K1 SoC, is it possible to port over the Twitch streaming client?
I opted not to buy the SHIELD tablet because I wanted something a little bigger, and the Nexus 9 I felt was a better size, plus it's got the 64bit version of the K1.
Anyone have any ideas? I wouldn't even know where to begin...
Anybody's guess the shield is 32 bit, the n9 64 bit. Not an easy transition
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Yeah I'd considered that, but I don't think all apps running on the N9 are 64bit, I think it's just 64bit ready, right?
I do have an Nvidia Shield Tablet with Tegra K1 processor, but I'm probably going to sell it because of all the flaws it has.
I'm planning to get a Nexus 9 instead, since it also got a K1 processor, does anyone know if Doom 3 BFG or the other Shield games like Half Life 2 work on it?
An answer would be appreciated
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To play, you will need a compatible device, and as of right now, that is just the SHIELD box, or a SHIELD Tablet and SHIELD Controller from NVIDIA.
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I don't believe our GPU is compatible.
how to play it on snapdragon