Usage on Raspberry PI

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As of MiniMeters version 1.0, MiniMeters comes with ARM64 builds for Linux. This allows MiniMeters to be used on the Raspberry Pi and similar ARM-based single-board-computers.

The system I used while developing MiniMeters for the Pi is a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM. I saw around 60FPS when in the Horizontal Layout, with the framerate dropping to around 20FPS with a larger window. In my experience, the Pi works best with a smaller framebuffer.

If you would like advice before purchasing, or would like to discuss the performance of MiniMeters on the Pi please join the MiniMeters community Discord's Raspberry Pi channel. FIXME: LIN

Performance Tips:

1. Use Wayland. Wayland shows nearly 2x better performance over X11 in my tests.
   • To enable this: Open Terminal. Type sudo raspi-config to open the configurator. Navigate to "Advanced Settings" and select Wayland to adjust your settings.
2. Try invoking MiniMeters with the MINIMETERS_MSAA environment variable set to 1. This will disable anti-aliasing for MiniMeters.
   • To disable MSAA try: MINIMETERS_MSAA=1 ./MiniMeters.AppImage
   • Alternatively, you can set the value to 2, 4, 8, or 16 and see if your system supports those values and the performance is suitable.
3. Disable any other graphically intensive applications.