Hi Tyrant,

Do you plan to upgrade this wonderful tool so it can works even on 4.36?

Many thanks!!

Gundam

Dears BMS team/community,

I tried to move a SAM-10 Battalions from one airport to other owned both by FRY. I was successful in the operation with 4 C17. (a 4 ships airmobile flight)

After i inserted a Blue flight going around the new place where FRY SAM 10 has been moved, in order to check the its behavior.

SAM 10 fired just 1 missle and after remains quite. Onboard of F16 i can see SAM-10 Spike but not more attack from its.

I checked with Mission Commander SAM 10 state before and after the Air Mobile operation and i noted that after the move the SAM 10 had critical state in Supply with a value of 3 instead of the initial value of 100! Furthemore a Fatique of 31 instead of initial value of 0.

In your experience/opinion:

• The critical supply state could be the reasons of SAM-10 behavior after the Airmobile operation? (just fire one missle and after…quite all the time)
• How i could avoid to loose supply in SAM airmobile operationand so its capacity to attack/defend?

As always many thanks for your precious indication.

Gundam

Hi All,

After four days of struggle in which I took blows from all sides I report that I succeeded!

Or rather, I was able to start BMS Server 4.37 on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 22.04 and connect with a client (windows).

I’ll continue with some testing to figure out the stability of the situation but in the meantime I want to thank the constant support of the BMS Forum (I don’t want to name names for fear of missing someone , i disturb a lot ).

At the end of the tests I will post a detailed guide, with the premise that if I, who understood nothing about Linux, made it, anyone can.

At the moment I can say that the tools used were

• Lutris (but i think with wine or bottles will be ok anyway)
• installation of a dummie sound card on the virtual machine Ubuntu
• installation of BMS 4.37 with check enabled for DirectX installation
• 4 days of fight (the family was starting to see me as crazy)

Stay tuned

@gundam

Guys, 5 hrs and it is still up and running…

Cross fingers

<p>Hi! I tried a couple of mission and really well done!! Good mission design and realistic context.<br /><br />You are a great mission designer ! Go on on these i will follow you even on next campaign missions :)<br /><br />Many thanks again !<br /><br />Gundam</p>

@Badger i am afraid we are all on F5. …

@gundam

Update from the front.

6 hrs and every things goes well. I think we can say that we found a situation better than before.

It seems strange but i fill that the change more impacting was to put the server in an isolated environment with a stable and static situation in the bubble where the server is in ramp. Maybe this avoid to get the exception and go in CTD.

Let me know what do y think. If we can consider stable i will work on a dedicated post to share parameter and configuration of this…journey.

thanks again a lot to all supporting me in these days of fight to BMS Team and the creator of magic DLL that allow this.

Gundam
(below the view from Stacer performance tool)

Update from the font.

I found the problem. In the past i renamed the file “ParticleSys” under Data\Terrdata directory following an hits founded on a Wine website forum regardng an old installation of BMS.

This was the cause of the null pointer execption.

Now is one day Server still running in ramp. No issue at the moment. Balcan Campaign is running too.

In these days i will go on with “stress test” and multiplayer session with other pilot to test server stability and reliability.

One point is that for the moment in the Lutris configuration i allow to use all the CPU less 1. The idea is to keep one Core out of BMS utilization (VM has 6 core) to increase stability.

Is this a good approach or is not needed and better to give all the power to BMS exe instance? For the moment i see all the five CPU working well and even well balanced (around 50%).

Many thanks for any suggestion.

Gundam

Hi All,

For the Linux lover (including me now ), i have good news.

First stress test with a campaign mission and four pilot connected. 2 hrs mission without issues.

Target was SA-5 and SA-6 in the first Balcan Campaign.

No issue to report.

I will leave campaign run.

Stay tuned.

Gundam

@Mav-jp Hi Mav-jp All,

After 18 days of campaign today i flight a sweep mission. just 1 ship. Local Time 23:05.

After the flight when i was in RTB i asked for unrestricted approach and…the airport lights turn ON for the first time.

I give up…

Gundam

@Mav-jp hi Mav. Perfect. Ok.

Thanks

Gundam

@Max Do you mean to have Airport lights on the server need to have gfx card? If so, this could be the reason for my scenario behavior. I never had the lights ON in the VM dedicated server

@MaxWaldorf Hi Max. Yes, I can confirm. No video card. I had to wait two minutes hang before to see the hud. but at the end i see it and i press " \ " to see out from external view and confirm that the runway was with no lights at all.

@gundam in my VM server the lights never works.

@Mav-jp correct. Exactly this. I have the campaign running and each time i restart always the same. Airport light off.

On my pc same fil, airport light on.

I think i am going to turn crazy for this

Gundam

@gundam I can provide even CAM file but i think is not usefull because if i use the same file on my PC as dedicated server i already see the airport lights work (at server flight - so hiroshima airport).

@gundam So just to resume.

server dedicated (VM in Cloud) with flight in taxy Hiroshima. C-130. Night time.

• KTO campaign Rolling Fire

• 3D rendering ON

• airport light at Hiroshima is OFF even with server asking for taxy out (if needed i have image)

• C-130 Squadron controlled by HQ

• New flight created F16-Block 52 in Seoul (Human squadron)

• Created the flight 5 minutes before take off and request for taxy done

• no airport light on Seoul

If other test is needed i can try to do my best to do it.

Gundam

@Mav-jp The server is in taxy with no light on airport. i verified.

@Mav-jp with no video card i can’t check this…if i open the window iconized the server risk to be in freeze. Anyway i can check and in the case restart. I suppose no anyway but i will try…