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[wizard4]

Contrary to the newer technologies like Unreal Engine, offering near photo realism... In my experience needed a very, very expensive set up. RTX 40xx and 32GB ram - not cheap.

My idea was to make a good game accessible for way less. My first choice was a quick trip to the shopping centre and buy a £500 PC, which would have 8GB ram, possibly a GTX 1650 or onboard Ryzen 5000 that would handle something like Player Unknown or Deus Ex: Human Revolution on low res.

But when I was short of money, all I could buy was a Raspberry Pi 5. Under £100, £400 less than the desktop.

I did see a video of Half Life 2, compiled for arm, running. It used the 8GB version I think plus a bigger cooling fan.

If anyone wants an entry level computer on the cheap (and format, format, wipe clean, reset, cheap SD card) is the Pi.

[Noiecity]

I would like to make games for irrlicht, but not for pc, but for an own console... we should do that I think, I could make the 3d models and animations of some games, I think we should at least try the result.

[Noiecity]

I think the windows or linux kernel(maybe, I have no evidence on linux) reduces the performance of graphics applications, it probably has a loop to block access to video memory for hardware security.
The raspbian OS maybe has a more basic kernel and you can run games with higher performance, I don't know.
Will it be possible to store the video memory values in a double buffer and improve performance if the kernel allows it? I think so, but all these issues have to be studied in a raspberry pi, I don't have one.
I want to do some tests.
I mean, raspberry pi has better hardware than a PS2, so I have to find a way to at least, run games with PS2 graphics on raspberry(with 640x480 resolution, in full screen).
I can make the graphics in irrlicht look like this:



Imagine with music like this(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJW76gHBhX4)