As some of you may know, I am working on making the Raspberry Pi a viable platform for playing Ren'Py games in a portable fashion without the need to rely on Android versions (which don't always exist) or an expensive Windows tablet.
This has been a challenge and along the way I've made some good progress.
Now with that quick bit of circumstances explained, I have run into an error that may be related to the Operating system or may be a flaw with the version of Ren'Py I have.
Lately, whenever I run any games, I see the performance warning, telling me Ren'Py is using software rendering. This means hardware acceleration is not being used and as a result, Ren'Py runs painfully slow.
After continuing past the error, I see the following in the terminal while running any games (including "The Question")
I assume this is directly related to not having hardware acceleration, but it may also be due to the fact I am running Ren'Py 7.1.0.0
This error does not appear to trigger every time. Its occasion seems to be completely random and I cannot see any pattern in its appearance.
Does anybody else who uses a Raspberry Pi have the same issue, or am I alone in this matter?