New installation option for BMS
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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.
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Did anyone tried to run BMS 4.34 under Wine with DXVK (DX9 over Vulkan)?
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Did anyone tried to run BMS 4.34 under Wine with DXVK (DX9 over Vulkan)?
You can choose one of 12 different optional dependencies when installing wine 5.8 in the Manjaro distribution. Of the 12,there are three that sound related to Vulkan:
lib32-vulkan-icd-icd-loader
vkd3d
lib32vkd3dShould I choose one of these when installing wine for use with BMS 4.34? Which one?
Thanks
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Assuming you have Vulkan-capable GPU, according to the Arch Wiki there should be dxvk-bin package install this one then configure dvxk for your wine BMS prefix:
$ WINEPREFIX=your-prefix setup_dxvk installDetails here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#DXVK
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Sorry to be a bit late to the party, but yes, I have much worse fps in BMS 4.34 on Linux (Mint 19.2, nv 1070ti, latest prop. drivers) and it also crashes in campaign mode after a few minutes (probably related to ATC). What’s also weird is that no matter what changes I make using nvidia-settings or internally via BMS setup, my fps seem to be pegged at 30 or so.
4.33 ran a lot better in WINE than natively on win7 for me, but I’m afraid that ship has sailed.
All the best,
Uwe
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Hoover, did You tried just with wine own DX wrapper or also with DXVK (ruling out nine as you have nvidia card and prop drivers)? WIne wrapper is indeed slow, that’s the reason why DX over Vulkan and gallium-nine exists.
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Assuming you have Vulkan-capable GPU, according to the Arch Wiki there should be dxvk-bin package install this one then configure dvxk for your wine BMS prefix:
$ WINEPREFIX=your-prefix setup_dxvk installDetails here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#DXVK
I tried using wine on manjaro linux with the vkd3d option, but saw no improvement. Quite a few people on this forum have tried to get 4.34 running on linux, but were not able to. We have one report of a successful linux BMS 4.34 install, but nobody has been able to reproduce that result. Thus the BMS 4.34 TTS linux bug is still unsolved. A bms config switch that would turn off text to speech, instead displaying messages as text to the screen, would solve the problem; it would be great if that could be included in a future BMS update patch.