BMS 4.35 on Linux / WINE
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did ALT+ENTER and then it all worked I guess what I’ve done with that is changing to full screen (I’m playing in borderless window mode same resolution as my monitor, so didn’t notice the difference but a short flick) and pressed ALT+ENTER again and keyboard still working.
Nvidia drivers 455 (for a 1050ti)
ALT-ENTER worked great in recovering keyboard input, thanks!
All the best,
Uwe
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Hi folks,
has anyone got opentrack-based head tracking to work with BMS under WINE? It worked ok in 4.34/4.33, but I don’t recall exactly what steps were needed in order to have BMS in WINE recognize and accept opentrack input.
I’ve recompiled opentrack from source for Linux Mint 20 and the pointtracker plugin, accelera filter and WINE output all work great in xplane11 (Linux native), but I cannot select the trackir axes in BMS’ setup / View control screen for some reason.
Any idea what I’m missing? I’ve enabled “TrackIR controls external view” in the BMS config thingy but I don’ think that’s strictly necessary.
Thanks & all the best,
uwe
I never found a proper tutorial on how to use Linux compiled Opentrack and then the wine protocol thing… So I always failed on that. If you, or anyone else have one, I would like to try.
What I have is windows Opentrack installed inside the same wineprefix as BMS. So I launch BMS in virtual desktop and there is the Opentrack icon, so I open it there. It recognizes my webcam and works well.
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Thanks for the hint on installing opentrack within the wineprefix, I didn’t even know that WINE supported USB devices like webcams etc by now!
OpenTrack installs fine, but I’m not seeing the numbers change or the octopus move when I start tracking using the pointtracker input, freetrack output and the accelera filter. The webcam image within WINE looks good though, the camera recognizes my three point delanclip nicely.
In BMS 4.34 (also installed in that wineprefix, i was now able to select the trackir axis in “view controls” so I have high hopes it’ll work in 4.35 as well… I’ll keep you posted
All the best, Uwe
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Looks like I had the input tracker settings wrong, values are changing now as they should. Anyway, off to prepare the christmas eve dinner now. Have a good one everyone!
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I created a new install of ubuntu 20.04, but I still get a crash on the F16 photo screen just prior to starting instant action. Specs are:
nvidia Driver Version: 455.38
i7 laptop with GeForce GTX 960M
wine-5.5
DXVK: v1.5.4
I used these commands:
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver-455
sudo reboot
nvidia-smi
mkdir WP
export WINEPREFIX=$PWD/WP
winecfg
sudo apt install -y wine-development
#install original Falcon 4
unzip ~/Downloads/Falcon_BMS_4.35_Setup.zip -d $WINEPREFIX/…
sudo apt install -y dxvk
dxvk-setup install
wine Launcher.exe -window &> log.txtI’d appreciate any suggestions about how to get BMS 4.35 working! I get the same crash whether or not I run dxvk-setup, it seems, but I checked that $WINEPREFIX is correct and that dxvk sets up the dx symlinks.
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Weird, I don’t see anything wrong with this setup. Do you get a BMS crashlog or is it a “bms has stopped working” kind of problem? What’s “nvidia-smi”?
Does BMS work without dxvk? Are you using borderless? Have you tried adding -nomovie to the launcher options?
All the best,
Uwe
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@akp:
I have great FPS with DXVK, works with opentrack as well.
Are you using opentrack in Linux native or the Windows version? I’m getting very weird results (first attempt with opentrack) under Windows.
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Got it working nicely with both windows and Linux native now. Happy times!
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Got it working nicely with both windows and Linux native now. Happy times!
I’m glad you did it!
How do you run Opentrack natively? I’m useless at it. Despite I got it working through windows, I would like to learn how to use it from Linux. -
Please refer to this post on how to enable wine output in opentrack, if it’s not enabled on the version in your distro’s repository.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1722#issuecomment-749061952
The HeadTracker.dll step is only required for DCS and not for BMS.
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@akp:
Please refer to this post on how to enable wine output in opentrack, if it’s not enabled on the version in your distro’s repository.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1722#issuecomment-749061952
The HeadTracker.dll step is only required for DCS and not for BMS.
Thanks! Will do.
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Uwe, above, has posted a link elsewhere on the forum - https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?16825-ANN-opentrack-2-0-beta-1-released!/page11 - with a compiled Ubuntu 20.04 release.
Download it, untar it, run it, enable the wine output plugin.
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Uwe, above, has posted a link elsewhere on the forum - https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?16825-ANN-opentrack-2-0-beta-1-released!/page11 - with a compiled Ubuntu 20.04 release.
Download it, untar it, run it, enable the wine output plugin.
Thanks! I don’t know how could I’ve missed that after all the searches I’ve done… Although it arrived few minutes “too” late. As I managed to do it. akp’s link wasn’t straightforward enough for me to make it run, but pointed me out in the right direction. Seems I’m still biting off more than I can chew, as now I get a rundll32.exe error when activating opentrack with wine output (both in my install and Uwe’s version). Opentrack works and the octopus moves as expected, but no head movement in game.
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Next silly question - has anyone managed to get the alternative launcher to work under wine? (I never could on 4.34, not yet tried on 4.35; as it’s all working, I’m slightly reluctant to just dive in if noone else has got it working…)
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Next silly question - has anyone managed to get the alternative launcher to work under wine? (I never could on 4.34, not yet tried on 4.35; as it’s all working, I’m slightly reluctant to just dive in if noone else has got it working…)
It worked for me. As I’m very new to BMS I can’t test it properly and can’t talk about the other features (editor, weather, planner…) but it launched, I could change axis and assign keys and launch the game. I’ve ended up going back to the default launcher because of the Alternative one always swapping my joystick and throttle and also it wasn’t detecting the X axis of my throttle. So do a backup before trying.
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Oh! I’ve just been trying it, and I can’t get it to run at all. Have you installed mono or dotnet? If so, which version/how?
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All I’m trying to do is configure the DX shift/pinkie switch so that I can have “more” buttons on my stick…
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No need for alt launcher for that can be done with a simple text editor by editing the used .key file. See technical manual 10.6.4
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No need for alt launcher for that can be done with a simple text editor by editing the used .key file. See technical manual 10.6.4
Thanks - every time I look at a key file, I find it makes very little sense to me, despite being a C programmer by trade
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I’ve had no luck getting BMS 4.35 running under ubuntu, but I finally did get it running under Manjaro. What a relief after so many failed attempts! I just sat there on the taxiway in the GroundOps TE (where it used to crash in BMS 4.34 after 2 minutes), watching the time go by. I’ve tried many different versions of OS, wine, winetricks and drivers. This is the only combination that works, in my experience:
versions:
Manjaro 20.2
wine-5.22 (staging)
winetricks 20201206-next
nvidia driver: 455.45.01commands:
pamac install wine-staging
pamac install winetricks
winetricks –self-update
#create WINEPREFIX
#install F4 and BMS 4.35
winetricks dxvk
wine Launcher -nomovie