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Will BeamNG come to mobile?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by aerodriver53, Mar 7, 2021.

  1. Phym

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    Considering high end phones ship with up to 8gb of ram, that’s not the issue(as beamng runs fine with 8gb of ram). The issue is that to not burn your hand, smartphone SOC’s need to be very low power, while also having lower clocks. Same for the GPU. So you are right, the limiting factor is the cpu and GPU.

    Then there’s the whole thing about developing for a completely different architecture.
     
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  2. IonicOwl

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    ...And I've seen the specs a lot of people are running when playing this PC version, can you imagine how underpowered their phones must be?
     
  3. Phym

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    I wouldn’t say completely underpowered, but for BeamNG, it really would be.
     
  4. Bad Driver771

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    Yeah, my laptop cpu is 4c/8t and is 2.4 - 4.0 ghz. my phone is 8c/?t, and 1.3-1.6 ghz. a modern phone would never run beamng well.
     
  5. RyanCookie

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    it is possible, there is this app on mobile where you can play steam games, but it costs aswell, my friend played beamng on there and it ran completley fine
     
  6. DutchTrains1

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    it already kills my laptop if i play on low graphics
     
  7. Phym

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    Then there’s the fact that the phone is an ARM cpu, and the fact that the gpu uses custom API’s...
     
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  8. Bad Driver771

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    I forgot about that. It's not just a port to another OS, it's a whole new instructions set.
     
  9. Phym

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    exactly.
     
  10. ManfredE3

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    Step 1: Buy a micro tower gaming PC and put it in a backpack
    Step 2: Duct tape a monitor to your face
    Step 3: Put a generator and wifi access point in a wagon and drag it around
    Step 4: download communication apps onto the computer
    Step 5: Profit
     
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  11. a plane guy

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    Technically everyone is saying if it comes to mobile your phones or tablets will turn into nukes in 5 seconds xD
     
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  12. Bad Driver771

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    Pretty much. Nukes, but at 0.01 fps.
     
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  13. Phym

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    Yes.
     
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  14. Spoon R24

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    ha ha ha brick with glass go boom
     
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  15. PessimaBoi

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    If you want to play a beamNG - ish game on mobile then install WDAMAGE.
     
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  16. Szymon2007

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    booo
     
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  17. boney

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    i tried to play it on steam link. I swear my phone almost exploded
     
  18. PessimaBoi

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    Lol
     
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  19. Blub

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    Beam could not operate with just 1 gigabite or something. The minimum is 8 ram, so...
     
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  20. PessimaBoi

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    So yea..
     
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