OpenBVE on Raspberry PI 3?

[afarlie]

I appreciate you are re-writing the engine for modern OpenGL techniques.. I noted this:- http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/90491-raspberry-pi-2-gets-hardware-accelerated-opengl-support/

It would be nice if feasible to be able to have an OpenBVE derived engine that could run on a Pi3, which is cheaper than many desktop systems.

The thought here is museum/heratige attractions use., rather than use in the railway sector.

[cwfitzgerald]

I just want to note here, while this may be objectively possible, I'm not sure how practical it would be. Raspberry Pis are slow. Like really slow. Compared to my mid range enterprise laptop, my RPi 2 is 20x slower on the cpu and 4x slower in memory. Compiling things on the RPi is reaaallyy slow. I will get objective performance comparisons of the parser library on the RPi once cmake builds and I can build this library. With such a strict frame time (16.6ms/frame) requirements, the core engine would have to be extremely efficient and the graphics will probably have to be turned down to next to nothing.

None the less, I will be very aware of the possibility and will keep it in mind going forward.

[cwfitzgerald]

Just tested compiling on my Raspberry Pi 2. It took over 18 minutes to compile and I could only run 3 jobs due to memory concerns. Compared to my laptop, it compiled approximately 22x times slower than my laptop. The current implementation of the parser, when parsing a fairly standard file finished 10x slower on the pi. While there may be the possibility of getting it running, getting it running and playable will be extremely difficult.

[afarlie]

Fair enough. I figured the performance issues might have killed this idea,