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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How powerful is the Pi 5? This would be awesome if I could get PS2 games on it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

uses the Arm A76 cores, ao the smartphone SOC to compare it to would be ones using the Snapdragon 855 (e.g Samsung S10) but neuter its multicore perf becauae mobile uses both big and little cores.

tldr will run some games, but not all. still struggle street

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info! Maybe we’ll get there one day. I’d love a hand held ps2 lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Steam deck 😎

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you emulate x86 on the pi? I thought that was really inefficient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Box86/64 and FEX can both run Steam on ARM. Lighter games should be playable on RPi4 and 5.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, that's very interesting!

I do have a 4 that I use as an emulation machine. I should try some older DOS games, I guess. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've been experimenting with both of these and recently wrote up a guide for installing FEX on postmarketOS (as I am testing it on my phone and tablet) but the steps should work for Pi as well.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam

I also just made a video tutorial/demo on YouTube. I ran Half Life 2 and Tomb Raider (2013). I'm not sure how capable the Pi 4 GPU is in comparison to the Adreno GPUs I tested.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EuOX2L_yNqI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's crazy, thanks for sharing.

I like that hardware, too.