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I just placed an order for this device:

HP Stream 7 Tablet
Windows 8.1 32bit
Intel® Atom® Z3735G with Intel HD Graphics (1.8 GHz, 2 MB cache, 4 cores)
1 GB DDR3L SDRAM
32GB SSD ( 130MB/s read, 70MB/s write )
7" diagonal HD WVA IPS multitouch-enabled (1280 x 800)

It was now on sale for only 79 euro's ( office 365 + cover for the tablet included ).

I hope it can run the AA server smooth. It would be cool to have it run an AA server and to use it as a picture frame. I'm going to use it that way because the tablet goes in to sleep mode when the screen isn't displaying anything. And to run the server, the screen has to stay on.

I will let you guys know how it plays out.

Memory is lacking but it should work.

Should definitely work, only lacking factor I could see is possibly the home based internet connection that will be behind it.

Also, seeing as it's a tablet, it'll probably be wireless which will definitely be a bottleneck.

Hello,

The next question is, could you host from a Windows Phone 8.1?

I am currently thinking buying a Windoze phone for fun, not considering running a server though.

Steve

We'll see how laggy it will be once I do some optimizing on it.

So I got my tablet today.
The first run was not so good. Huge lag spikes.
I had the cachemegsize set to big but the tablet only had 1GB RAM so that could be the cause.

Then I disabled about 10-15 windows services like windows defender, windows indexing, etc... and set the cachemegsize to 250MB. I also changed the service-priority to "very low" in the windows task manager.

The 2nd run went much better. We played with 4 players on it. Pings were fine and no lag.

Now, the most suprising fact is, this tablet consumes about 2-4watts with the AA server running. I think that might be the most power efficient AA server there is

Tomorrow:
- I'm going to search for a way to keep the server running with the tablet screen turned off ( to reduce power consumption eaven more ) I will probably have to disable connected standby to enable all power options ( like you have on laptops ).
- I'm going to continue disabling windows services to reduce RAM usesage by services I don't need.

The server name tomorrow will be "Hosted on a tablet! - Mapvote"
You will be able to find it very fast if you order the serverlist by countryflag.
The server is located in Belgium.

Please test it and share your experience Thanks Vanoke and SWISS clan for testing last night.

Don't set the priority to very low, it will mean EVERYTHING else on the computer will take priority. Set the AA server process to above normal.

As far as modifying services, check out BlackViper, he's got good registry tweaks. Then you can also run CCleaner and uninstall the factory bloatware and startup items.

Thanks for the tip. There is no bloatware on the talbet. Probably because it's sold via the Microsoft store. It's 100% clean.

and then, everyone with a tablet will try to run a server on it.
will be nice to sort them out not running there - to have the good performance ones to play on.

still I don't know why you are trying this to do - what's the point about that?

and as a hint - running your tablet with more then 10 players on it for more then 10 hours - goodbye tablet - not made for running hot around all the day. but it's a try to see how long it will work

good luck

btw: the most expensive server out there - for this you got a medal for sure