[LINUX] Running BMS 4.34 on Linux / WINE
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Looks like BMS 4.34 runs fine on Linux using Wine 4.0:
Great work, BMS devs! One thing less to worry about
I only gave the new version a cursory check (assigned some controller axes on my Warthog, checking a TE and entering 3D using âinstant actionâ), everything is apparently working great.
I got a bit of a shock when a message came up that âthis title requires at least windows vistaâ, but using winecfg to check I found it was set to emulate winxp.
Cheers,
Uwe
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Hi there can you tell me the right procedure to install BMS 4.34 using Linux? I have not any W10 or 7 or 8, but only win XP (32 Bit) therefore I can use, if possible my Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya version (64bit).
Thanks
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There is a linux section for this.
In the hot list you can find the link to it.
Link for the hotlist is in my signature.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T818A using Tapatalk
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@tdr:
Hi there can you tell me the right procedure to install BMS 4.34 using Linux? I have not any W10 or 7 or 8, but only win XP (32 Bit) therefore I can use, if possible my Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya version (64bit).
Thanks
Hello tdr,
Iâd suggest using a more up to date version of Linux Mint like 19.x (which is based on Ubuntu LTS 18.04 which will enjoy at least five years of support, probably longer).
Linux Mint 18 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 which is beginning to show its age to be honest
All the best, Uwe
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BTW, you can install both versions alongside each other, they will co-exist happily. If you have an old spare hard disk gathering dust somewhere Iâd recommend using that one for Linux Mint 19.
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Good job!
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Thank you, Kolbe !!!
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Hm, why me?
Think itâs hoover deserving the tahnk you -
Thanks Hoover, I have one ssd for linux mint 18.2 and for that reason I would like to instal bms 4.34âŚeverything is going well a parte the message, how can I solve it?
Thaks
PS.
@ArtyâŚI am sorry if I am posting here, but I dont see the section is for everyone, dont know why :eek: -
Well, after some test time I have got it. All works apparently good.
Thanks to everybody who have made this possible. Now is time to test for multiplayer.
I have noticed that when I close the sim it appears that the size of the desktop change from 1920x1080 to 720x480 or something similar, while the game is correct. I have to exit from the desktop and reenter to get the right resolution.
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Falcon ui resolution is 1024x768.
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@tdr: Try running BMS in windowed mode, that should take care of the changed desktop resolution.
Add â-windowâ to the launcher and set the display extraction in the configurator, using (0, 0) as the upper left coordinate.
All the best,
Uwe
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Well, I have tried to lunch the sim with â-windowâ but no way every time I have to change the resolution manually from the nvdia setting
Here the launcher:[Desktop Entry] Name=Falcon BMS 4.34 Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/teo/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/teo/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Scrivania/Falcon\\ BMS\\ 4.34.lnk Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/teo/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Falcon BMS 4.34/ Icon=7DEA_Launcher.0 StartupWMClass=launcher.exe -window -nomovie
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Hi,
Is it possible to install BMS via Wine with Pure OS as my OS?
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Hi folks,
I received the following report via PM today:
Hello Hoover,
Youâve made good contributions to the linux section of Artyâs hot list - have you tried BMS 4.34 on linux? It works fine for me in dogfight or instant action. In campaign, though, it crashes within the first 30 minutes of campaign time.
Previous versions of BMS (4.32, 4.33) have worked without winetricks. Do you think there is a winetricks command that would prevent BMS 4.34 from crashing during campaign in linux? Do you think changing config settings in BMS 4.34 would help?
Thanks!
Could this crash be related to ATIS using the windows text to speech engine in some manner?
I havenât run any campaign tests on Linux yet, so I cannot really comment on the issue or give any advice.
Would it be possible to add a command line switch to disable ATIS TTS if this causes problems for Linux users? Just an idea, of course we need further data on this.
All the best,
Uwe
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Might be worth giving something like this a go - https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6z41qb/my_text_to_speech_tts_solution_wine_microsoft/
If I get a spare few mins, Iâll give it a test too.
Thanks,
Delenda
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A voice message repeats over and over when BMS 4.34 on linux stalls in campaign. This suggests that Hooverâs hypothesis that the problem is in the text-to-speech code is correct.
Text to speech does work for a while in campaign, however. Perhaps a TTS buffer overflows after a while?
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Iâm amazed that the ATIS TTS works at all on Linux, so at least this much is good news
Should we open a âbug reportâ or a âfeature requestâ?
thanks for checking this, tank.
@Delenda: Did you have any luck with the solution you pointed out above?
All the best,
Uwe
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For what itâs worth for diagnostics:
Tested the TEâs âground opsâ and âOsan Taeguâ (or whatever it was called, the IFR training mission anyways) quite a few times. BMS crashes each time when an AI taxis near the runway (this would be when ground tells to switch to tower frequency, I assume). Tested once in campaign, same results.
Usually backtracing the crash gives âUnhandled exception: page fault on write access to (address) in 64-bit code.â
However, at one point I moved (and renamed) the wine folder to the desktop before reinstalling wine and BMS 4.34 in it. When backtracing the crash, I found BMS had used files from the renamed old wine folder. But whatâs more interesting, in backtrace the error was âpage fault on read accessâ and under âBacktrace:â there were mentions of âVoiceManagerâ and âfalcon bmsâ
Running Mac OS X El Capitan, tried both Wine 4.0 and 4.6. I had to install Windows 10 on my computer anyways, but I hope this helps!