Obviously, these games like Half-Life 2 and Resident Evil 5 were released for play only on the Shield, but is there any workaround at all, if I wanted to play these games on my Galaxy S4?
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Obviously, these games like Half-Life 2 and Resident Evil 5 were released for play only on the Shield, but is there any workaround at all, if I wanted to play these games on my Galaxy S4?
Shield only android games afaik.
For what it's worth, I did get HL2 to work with GLTools, but I was having some controller issues. I couldn't get RE5 to run at all.
Are the games from an .apk installer or do they rely on another program that is installed on your TV? You should be able to install any .apk if you set your Galaxy to install apps from from outside of the Google Play store.
If that isn't the issue it is probably down to the hardware specs of your TV vs phone. Half-Life 2 is from 1998, RE5 is 2009. HL2 is going to be a ton easier to run.
2004/5 iirc. It was released on PC/Xbox around then.Quote:
Originally Posted by skullpoker
LMGTFY wikipedia search FTL :oQuote:
Originally Posted by deadlegion
Half-Life 1998, Half-Life 2 2004.
You're still probably right about it being easier to run than RE5 though :P
It's hard to say exactly why RE5 didn't even boot compared to getting in-game with HL2. The reason why these games can't run natively is that my GS4 doesn't run a Tegra GPU. GLTools is faking what's needed and so I'd expect both to work. Obviously that didn't happen. Who knows. GLTools isn't exactly very accurate.
If it's using your CPU to emulate a specific GPU, that is going to run hot, be a resource hog, and probably buggy. Keep in mind that a 3GHz 4-core CPU can have a hard time emulating some PS2 games, for comparison. Some games run at normal speeds, some are half-speed slide shows.
One possible work-around would be to get them on Steam, since it will run your games on your PC and stream them to other devices over your home network. Or get them on PS4 and play them on a Vita. Using your current hardware or specifically playing them on a non-intended Android sounds like you're going to have a bad time.
Yeah. It's no fun playing a game on what it's designed to play on. The real fun is getting a game to run on something it's not supposed to run on. :)
If you think that kind of hassle is fun you should look into a free coding or computer science course online. You might enjoy coding/debugging, and it might help you figure out what you're working on here.
Nvidia shield! I need to get one
Yeah, me too. PS Vita it is too bad.