A BIG thank You to the BMS team and a few observations…
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Like the title says: Thank You
Regarding the observations, I have a Saitek Evo Force FFB stick which, for some reason, prevents the 64bit version of Falon BMS 4.33 from starting up properly. I use Windows 7 64bit Home Premium and the system reported that a file related to the driver set of this stick, namely the SaiQFFB5.dll file, ruined things and Falcon wouldn’t start at all. I tried running the 64bit version with the stick plugged out and it ran fine. That being said, I’ve been having a blast with the 32bit version.
Lots of X marks appear on the radar scope as, apparently, enemy aircraft are launched at by friendly planes. In previous iterations of Falcon (OF as well as BMS), only those targets launched at by airplanes to which the human controlled plane is data linked are marked by X marks on the scopes in the cockpit, which made me wonder whether there’s a separate data link which allows for sharing the info about targets between all coalition airplanes.
I also tried running Falcon BMS 4.33 on Linux Mint 17, under Wine, with legacy Nvidia drivers installed and vertical sync switched off as advised for Falcon BMS 4.32, but I still got a black screen, while the sound played fine while in the 3D world. Did anyone have success with running this sim on Linux?
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This might help: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=199111
Trying to get 4.33 to run with WINE in Arch Linux at the moment.
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Switching off the ‘triple buffering’ option in the configuration applet, hardware section, did the trick. Falcon BMS 4.33 started under Linux Mint 17. Sadly, no amount of tweaking made the FPS go significantly past 10, so I guess I’ll have to get another graphcard before I can fly on Linux. Thanks for the link anyway :).
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Those X are jamming marks
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Ooops, sorry, there was an avionics mod that did that, but it never occurred to me. I thought it was denoting enemy planes being launched at. Thanks :).
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I have Linux Mint 17 and would love to have Falcon 4.33 working full speed (or thereabouts). Has anyone managed to use a “GPU passthrough” with Wine and Linux?
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I don’t think it is possible. You need a true hypervisor like VMWare Workstation (perhaps VMWare Player will be sufficient) or VirtualBox - those are the most popular type II/hosted hypervisors. You need a specific hardware as well. For example if you have Intel CPU check if it supports VT-D. Your GPU must also supports it - good luck with NVidia cards, only Nvidia Quatro cards supports PCI passthrough. Here is the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware
So, if you have proper hardware then… good luck!
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Maybe open drivers/nine (gallium drivers DX9 state tracker) + patched wine would prodce more fps? I’m not sure but I think sthalik has some experience in this subject.
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Just reinstalled BMS 4.33 under Linux for the third time and can’t get the FPS beyond 10. I tried disabling various shaders, HDR and the rest of it both in BMS configuration and Winetricks and had no success. All this on an NVidia GTS 560 and a Phenom II 960with 8G of RAM installed. Did anyone get better results with 4.33 on Linux and, if so, what did they do?
Sorry for the shameless bump, thought I’d give it one more try before I uninstall Falcon BMS from Linux…
P.S.
I’m currently using Nvidia-340 proprietary drivers, would using X-org drivers be advantageous?
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Proprietary nvidia drivers are said to be much faster than the open source ones.
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What I thougt, thanks. Tried the NVidia-352 driver set last night. There was no improvement.
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Regarding running Falcon BMS on Linux, there’s been some experimenting. Those interested can look at the results at the following page if interested:
