All I want to know is that whether I can run and make games using the unity engine on a Raspberry Pi 4 just like I can on the PC.
I had a PC which I had been using to create a game on the Unity Engine 2018 but now since I don’t have my Laptop, I have been looking for something that can run unity and found out about Raspberry Pi 4.
Raspberry Pi 4 promises to be able to be transformed into a fully functioning computer just like any other PC. I don’t doubt that but what bothers me is that my friend thinks that it won’t be able to support that much graphics.
I have been trying to find the answers but the findings are confusing and I don’t really have enough knowledge to compare the graphic compatibilities and all.
Well, that can not be easily answered. First a Raspberry PI is first and foremost hardware, so it depends on what OS you’re using. Next different PI versions have different GPU chips. Unity can build for linux, however officially it only support Ubuntu desktop as fas as I remember (don’t ask me about the version ^^). Apart from native builds the best bet may be a WebGL build running in a browser that supports WebGL. I only have an RPI 3b. The Chromium based browser that was shipped with the stock raspbian OS does support WebGL 1.0 and Untiy builds do seem to load up, however they never run on my PI. Another issue is that this simple browser, even it supports WebGL, doesn’t support WebAssemblies. So newer WebGL builds won’t even try to start. If you have a RPI 4, why don’t you just try it? Over here I have a list of my examples / tests which have been build with various Unity versions.
Since the RPI4 supports OpenGL ES 3.1 I would assume that the hardware should be capable of running Unity content, at least from the graphics point of view. My RPI3 only supports OpenGL ES 2.0.
So it all boils down to your exact hardware and of course which OS you install on it and how well the OS driver support is for this particular hardware.
@Bunny83 Well thank you for the answer first of all.
I don’t have a Raspberry Pi but I was preparing to buy one, and all this only for the purpose of making games which I won’t prefer to buy a whole PC for.
So I just wanted to know whether I should buy it or not.
And in case you need to know, I would be buying a Raspberry Pi 4 B, 4 GB RAM variant. And I think that the software wouldn’t be a problem since it can already be made to run Windows OS, as far as I know.
I doubt it will execute on a rapberrian os, the setup defenantly doesnt because ubuntu 23 desktop for it says the setup file is invalid format. eg not arm compatiblle for Ubuntu Desktop for PC’s on google it says the rapberrian can run on 4 b+ but i doubt it will execute easily, just not meant for arm at all me thinks… it would be dicy to try the wine emulator to run the windows version on it, not the right OS but who knows. I downloaded wine successfully even using my raspberry pi 3, to check for free of course. And just now i tried that too and it says install apt get install wine:32bit or something which it doesnt have on it which is the exact version u need for PI 4 which works on PI 3 too. So … NO! you could then try the Editor only, i guess. the bottom line is most apps need to be arm and made for arm and none are… The Editor does the same thing. eg WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX"/home/name/.wine32" wine Setup* ← this doesnt work ever cause of missing 32bit completely in the whole os. may take windows 20 years to remove 32bit but id say thats why they do all this stuff. trying to rebuild windows somehow. my ones GPU is lacking too at this spec 400 MHz VideoCore IV® also Windows OtT only runs 32bit software too. It also locks the hardware so im not using it atm. 16bit and 8bit works well on the Raspberry Pi 3 b+