Preface#
In 2021, I was in the mood to buy a Windows 2-in-1 tablet, so I bought a Surface Go2. However, its performance was too weak and it had serious heating issues, so it has been sitting idle until now.
Currently, the keyboard is missing and USB 3.1 cannot be recognized, so I can only use 2.0. It is in a semi-scrap state.
The official repair service is ridiculously expensive (2000+), so I decided to explore if I can bring it back to life.
Exploration Process#
Rhythm Games#
As a rhythm game enthusiast, the first thing that came to mind was playing rhythm games on it.
Unfortunately, the touch response of this tablet is the worst I have ever encountered, without exception.
I have tried various methods, including but not limited to:
- Using Moonlight+Sunshine to stream and play maimai, but the latency was too high and it was impossible to play with multiple inputs.
- Using Brokenithm to play CHUNITHM, but I still encountered issues with multiple inputs.
- Installing FydeOS to play mobile rhythm games, but they all had significant latency and noticeable lag.
Therefore, playing rhythm games is not an option.
Visual Novels#
Since rhythm games are not feasible, what about playing visual novels with lower system requirements?
The answer is still no.
The reason is that the screen of the Surface Go2 is not the standard 16:9 1080P, but rather 3:2 1920x1280.
This causes some strange graphical issues when running certain visual novels, such as glitchy windows or the games not launching at all.
The only solution is to adjust the resolution to 1920x1080, but then I have to tolerate large black bars at the top and bottom.
Android#
You may have noticed that I mentioned a term earlier, FydeOS.
It is a system based on Chromium OS, which is compatible with the Android environment and highly integrated. There is also a version specifically adapted for the Surface series.
However, the performance of the Surface Go2 is still unsatisfactory.
FydeOS Changelog:
Due to the special nature of Microsoft Surface hardware, an experimental touch driver is currently being used. This may result in less sensitive touch recognition.
Due to the special nature of Microsoft Surface hardware, the following features are temporarily not supported on Surface devices:
Camera
Logging in with a PIN code after restarting
Furthermore, due to the poor performance of the m3-8100y and UHD615, as well as driver issues and translation, running Android applications is extremely inefficient and causes significant heating problems.
Therefore, using it as an Android tablet is not within our consideration.
It's unlikely that anyone would spend thousands of dollars to buy a Windows tablet and then run Android on it.
Nothing To Do#
That's it, the end of this article.
Conclusion#
In the end, it's just that nothing works well, with heating and lagging being the top issues.
There's nothing much to conclude.
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