Raspberry Pi Specifics

As of MiniMeters version 1.0, MiniMeters includes arm64 Linux builds. This allows MiniMeters to be used on the Raspberry Pi and similar ARM-based single-board-computers.

During development I used a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Model with a passive cooler. I saw a stable 60FPS when in the Horizontal Layout, with the framerate dropping to around 20FPS when the Settings pane is open.

If you would like advice before purchasing or would simply like to chat about MiniMeters on the Pi please join the MiniMeters community Discord's Raspberry Pi channel.

Performance Tips:

Wayland:

Wayland shows nearly 2x better performance over X11 in my tests.

• To enable this: Open the Terminal. Type sudo raspi-config to open the configurator. Navigate to Advanced Options > Wayland > and select any of the Wayland options. At the time of writing Wayfire and Labwc are the available options.

Environment Variables:

At launch, MiniMeters checks for the following environment variables to select some less used options:

• DISABLE_FLUSHING=1 will group MiniMeters' draw calls more aggressively, however may cause some small graphical glitches.

• MINIMETERS_MSAA=1 will disable anti-aliasing for MiniMeters.

  • 2, 4, 8, and 16 are also valid values if you'd like to increase the MSAA settings. MiniMeters defaults to 4.

For the fastest performance possible launch MiniMeters from a terminal like so:

DISABLE_FLUSHING=1 MINIMETERS_MSAA=1 ./MiniMeters.AppImage