GalCiv2 for ARM

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I recently bought a windows rt tablet and was thinking it would be awesome if I could play Galactic Civilizations 2 or even 1 on my tablet! But then I was like, oh yeah, I have rt. I really like this tablet and the full version of windows was a lot more money and the hardware wasn't as good. What would be really cool was if someone with the knowledge recompiled the game for ARM architecture (or if someone came up with a good hack). Is there any chance that Stardock would think of releasing galactic civilizations on the windows store? I would easily pay $5-$10 dollars on it. Now that I think about it, I would probably pay more.

And Galactic Civilizations 3 is gonna be sick. Just had to say that. :grin:

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Is there any chance that Stardock would think of releasing galactic civilizations on the windows store?

Nope. At this point we can't even build it for x86 any more since it needs VS2003 (which isn't supported on any OS since XP). Let alone doing it for ARM and making it work with whatever API differences there are.

You could probably run it on a desktop and stream to the tablet though as some people have done with Android.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting kryo, reply 1
You could probably run it on a desktop and stream to the tablet though as some people have done with Android.

 

Well shucks. I just hope someone can come up with a way to bypass this problem. Or if Microsoft removes the restrictions. I might have to try streaming it though! What kind of programs are people using to stream games?

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