New installation option for BMS
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Falcon BMS 4.33 U5 is now listed as fully linux compatible on WineHQ, the linux compatibility database:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37255&iTestingId=103954
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Oh tank that’s u right?
Serious simulator - improved game.
I’m fine with game and jiggling the serious guys whenever I can. But those two on the same paragraph doesn’t match and many might hammer u, I see some stones raising as I write these words. [emoji38]What counts is the intend and the reason. Good thing to advertise it there.
Thanks now we get flood of geeks and nerds…
Which sudo is for wheel steering?
Do I login as admin or root in mc?
:rofl:Στάλθηκε από το MI 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
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Will the new Falcon BMS 4.33 U5 post on WineHQ attract clueless new users or trolls to benchmarksims.org? I don’t think so, for 3 reasons:
1. Falcon BMS has been listed on WineHQ for a while (there are a couple BMS 4.32 postings) and these previous posts haven’t brought a lot of newbie traffic to benchmarksims.
2. There are thousands of games listed on WineHQ, so you’d pretty much have to know about Falcon 4, and be actively searching for it, to find it on WineHQ.
3. Most of the games on WineHQ are free, while the BMS 4.33 U5 post describes BMS as “retail” rather than “free.” Asking users to pay filters out gamers who aren’t serious.
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Another question Arty brought up is - how does BMS compare to other flight simulators that work on linux? I’d say it compares very well. There are basically two other linux-compatible flight simulators out there:
1. xplane (retail)
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fdefuse.ca%2Fimages%2FF-18_18.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fdefuse.ca%2Fx-plane-combat.htm&docid=nA3ljhxCfF8YnM&tbnid=08o77M4-KbQOrM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiP9MqpjY7eAhWeFjQIHamBBeAQMwikASgvMC8…i&w=1024&h=997&bih=625&biw=1280&q=xplane%20cockpit&ved=0ahUKEwiP9MqpjY7eAhWeFjQIHamBBeAQMwikASgvMC8&iact=mrc&uact=8#h=997&imgdii=08o77M4-KbQOrM:&vet=10ahUKEwiP9MqpjY7eAhWeFjQIHamBBeAQMwikASgvMC8…i&w=1024
2. FlightGear (open source)
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=625&ei=3n_HW7jwD4C80PEPvdKdwAI&q=flightgear+cockpit&oq=flightgear+cock&gs_l=img.3.1.0i24k1l2.1798.4790.0.6288.15.12.0.3.3.0.168.1156.0j9.9.0….0…1ac.1.64.img…3.12.1174…0j0i10k1j0i30k1.0.PMTwSiUJrSA#imgrc=cFvuz_3zC3NpFM:Both are reasonable commercial flight simulator, and are useful for people building their own real-world cockpits. Both model a few military aircraft, but do not really provide combat simulation.
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Both are reasonable commercial flight simulator, and are useful for people building their own real-world cockpits. Both model a few military aircraft, but do not really provide combat simulation.
I think FlightGear is still free (both as in beer and open) and a2a weapons have made a return with X-Plane 11 (though I’d not exactly call that a true to life combat “simulation”).
http://home.flightgear.org/about/
All the best, Uwe
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PS: I just visited the flightgear.org site, and wow, this sim has come a long way since I last went to the site. the Screenshots look awesome:
http://home.flightgear.org/news/a-preview-of-the-2018-3-release/
I’ll need to check this one out again soon!
Cheers, Uwe
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I agree that FlightGear has improved, but I think Falcon has improved even more. When you visit the FlightGear forum, you might mention that Falcon BMS runs on linux and has awesome dogflight simulation. BMS ramp start for military planes and dogfight way outclass what’s available in xplane and FlightGear, I would say.
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I agree that FlightGear has improved, but I think Falcon has improved even more. When you visit the FlightGear forum, you might mention that Falcon BMS runs on linux and has awesome dogflight simulation. BMS ramp start for military planes and dogfight way outclass what’s available in xplane and FlightGear, I would say.
Of course that’s true, given that BMS is a true military simulator. I’ll closely watch flightgear and also enjoy some civilian flying in x-plane 11 on Linux for now, it’s great to have those alternatives available.
All the best, Uwe
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Hi guys, I want to establish a BMS server on cloud, and I do it with Tank’s installation instructions step-by-step, but I meet a problem that is the Wine will popup an error box as shown in the attached screenshot below when I run BMS 4.34(U4). Has anyone ever encountered such problem?
The operating environment is:
1. Cloud server with 1 core CPU, 1G memory, running CentOS 7.6 64bit
(as the cloud server uses virtualization technology, the video card is also virtual. I’m not sure BMS or wine will work correctly on it.)2. Wine-5.0 32bit and 64bit coexist
(the setup.exe of Falcon4 could not run with Wine 64bit but run well with wine 32bit, and BMS must run with wine 64bit, so I make and installed both 32 and 64 version. Has anyone noticed it?)3. Falcon4 and BMS4.34(including U1-U4) installed in the ~/.wine/drive_c/
4. I use VNC to connect and operate the server remotely and run BMS in window mode
Best Regards
Rosso -
I wasn’t able to view the attachment, so I’m not sure what your specific linux installation problem is. However, there’s a bigger problem you need to know about if you’re setting up a linux BMS server - on linux, BMS4.34 hangs in campaign mode whenever air traffic control text to speech is used. I’ve tried many approaches, but found no workaround.
Thus if you want to run a linux BMS server, I recommend using BMS 4.33 until there’s a fix or workaround in BMS 4.34. On linux, all that works right now in BMS 4.34 is dogfight, TE’s that don’t use air traffic control text to speech, and instant action.
Except for that problem, BMS works great on linux. It’s faster, and its easier to maintain a linux install than a windows BMS installation in my opinion.
The new 4.34 ATC is excellent, but I can’t get it to work with linux/wine, so I’m still using 4.33 at the moment. I’m hoping that when they get a chance, the devs will add a config option to display ATC information as text to the screen rather than speech.
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i’m trying to get better fps on Manjaro Linux, currently i’m running falcon bms 4.34 on wine 5.8 stagging, but my fps are much lower than windows (45-60fps) linux (32-25fps), anyone knows how to increase performance on linux???
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i’m trying to get better fps on Manjaro Linux, currently i’m running falcon bms 4.34 on wine 5.8 stagging, but my fps are much lower than windows (45-60fps) linux (32-25fps), anyone knows how to increase performance on linux???
Are you able to run BMS 4.34 in campaign without having it hang after a few minutes? I find that BMS 4.34 campaign under linux/wine hangs every time ATC text to speech is invoked. I got this result using wine 5.0 rather than 5.8 though.
Thanks
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Are you able to run BMS 4.34 in campaign without having it hang after a few minutes? I find that BMS 4.34 campaign under linux/wine hangs every time ATC text to speech is invoked. I got this result using wine 5.0 rather than 5.8 though.
Thanks
Yes i’m running bms 4.34 in campaign, but my only problem are the fps, i want to know some tweaks or something to get better fps
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Good Day, Tank and All,
If I may jump in with a quick question. As I have an old pc, and if I put Linux on it, will I be able to play Jane’s F-18 on it? Jane’s has been long dead on modern OS -
According to the wine website website, the answer is no:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=3087However, Mig Alley was listed as unusable on linux too, but I got it running with 100% functionality. There doesn’t seem to be a good book about how to do this kind of software archeology, it’s more an art than a science at this point. I noticed that Hoover loaded a C++ runtime with winetricks to get WDP running on linux. I tried the same thing with Mig Alley and it worked! (Mig Alley and Janes’ f18 were both released in 1998, I believe, so they would have similar software components.
My answer to your question is: Jane’s f18 could probably be made to work on linux, but it would probably take a bit of tinkering to get it up and running.
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i’m trying to get better fps on Manjaro Linux, currently i’m running falcon bms 4.34 on wine 5.8 stagging, but my fps are much lower than windows (45-60fps) linux (32-25fps), anyone knows how to increase performance on linux???
One way that could happen is if you’re using generic graphics drivers in linux. I know that in ubuntu linux generic drivers are the default, and you need to specify during the linux install that you want proprietary 3rd party drivers installed if you want to play games. Here’s the relevant part of an install script from a two year old version of ubuntu (you’d need to modify it for your version of linux)
–------- shell script start --------first, install proprietary graphics drivers
in this case, an nvidia graphics card is used, so check to see whether nvidia drivers are installed
lsmod | grep nvidia
if this command generates no output, the nvidia driver is not installed
nouveau is the defaul graphics driver, which will be slow
lsmod | grep nouveau
if this command generates output, the generic (slower) graphics driver is installed
download graphics drivers
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
sudo apt update
ubuntu-drivers devicesfor this particular older graphics card, the nvidia-driver is recommended
sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver-XXX
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstallnow reboot the computer to load the new graphics driver
ubuntu-drivers devices
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update: i was using manjaro the Gnome version, yesterday i intalled the XFCE version, Falcon runs better than windows by 5 or 6 fps more, using the lastest Wine version
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update: i was using manjaro the Gnome version, yesterday i intalled the XFCE version, Falcon runs better than windows by 5 or 6 fps more, using the lastest Wine version
The frame rate boost sounds about right; it probably was a proprietary device driver issue. Can you confirm that you have 4.34 campaign running under wine 5.8?
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The frame rate boost sounds about right; it probably was a proprietary device driver issue. Can you confirm that you have 4.34 campaign running under wine 5.8?
I confirm
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I confirm
I tried installing Manjaro XFCE, then installing wine-staging and confirming it’s wine version 5.8, then installing BMS 4.34U4. I see the same “wait time out on thread” hang effect as on Ubuntu. If I start the ground ops TE and just watch the screen, the hang occurs repeatably at 10:30:43 on the DED clock. If instead I start a tiger spirit campaign, set 64x time compression and take no further action, just watching the 2D map view, the hang occurs at about 8:30 on the BMS clock. I’m using a 5-10 year old Intel i7 PC with no speaker attached. If BMS 4.34 works for you on Manjaro, the only explanation I can think of is that the linux thread timeout bug occurs on my hardware but not yours.