Simviation Forum - FS9 on Linux?

Jan 15^th, 2004 at 6:01pm

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Anyone know if FS9 is usable on a Linux OS?

As far as memory, CPU, and graphics card go i'm running all the recommended but not sure if it works with my OS.

Please Help.

Thanx. Carl

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Reply #1 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 6:16pm

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I Like Flight Simulation!

Have you tried Wine?

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Reply #2 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 8:00pm

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Not yet haven't looked into it much - I also have a Windows machine but that is laptop and I would love to play FS on my 19" monitor.

Will have to try your suggestion.

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Reply #3 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 4:16am

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Wine will do it

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

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Reply #4 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 5:24am

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Aaaah !

The beauty of talking to people who know things !

Works perfect. Cheesy

Thanx. Carl

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Reply #5 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 9:12am

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Could you tell us your system specs, game settings and fps. I am interested to whether the performance is better, i would expect it would be.

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

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Reply #6 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 5:28pm

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I'm running on a:

Athlon 2.8Ghz proccessor
1024MB Ram
A GeForce 128MB graphics card

With all settings on Ultra High or Medium High
and my FPS varies depending on amount of traffic in specific area but on average it's around 80 FPS.

Which compared to my windows machine is much better that only gets around 30 ! ! !

Also i've had absoloutly NO errors.

It's worth a try

Thanx. Carl

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Reply #7 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 6:32pm

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try flightgear for something different on linux

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Reply #8 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 6:45pm

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Carl,
which Linux distro are you using?

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Reply #9 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 7:21pm

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I would expect Redhat or Suse.

I might set-up a partition when i have time and put which ever one he uses onto it (as all linux is free) and put wine on there and have fs running like a dream.

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Reply #10 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 8:54pm

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Whoa, this sounds very interesting. I have the capability, and the interest of looking into setting up Linux on a partition like stated above...but I know nothing about this OS. Could somebody please explain a little about it, and maybe offer some insight of how exactly I could go about setting this up? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

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Reply #11 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 1:27am

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I think the best distro to start with would be Mandrake Linux. It's the most user friendly. I have used Redhat 9 and Mandrake 8.2 to 9.1 and I would not hesitate to recommend Mandrake. I believe version 9.2 is out for download now. It is a really slick OS.

If you download the ISOs make sure you use 700mb. blank CDs when you burn them as they are all in around the 690 mb range.

Look below for some demos and screenshots.

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3

I have no experience with WINE or with trying to run FS9 on Linux, but I have installed different versions of Linux many times and I would just tell you that Linux likes unpartitioned space. You don't install it onto Windows partitions.
What you want to do is delete a partition - preferably one after all the Windows partitions and let Linux install to the 'empty space' on the hard drive. The installation will set up the Linux bootloader to dual boot with your Windows OS.
A good size for mandrake would be 6 to 10 gigs.

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Reply #12 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 2:59am

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Quote:

With all settings on Ultra High or Medium High
and my FPS varies depending on amount of traffic in specific area but on average it's around 80 FPS.

Which compared to my windows machine is much better that only gets around 30 ! ! !

Also i've had absoloutly NO errors.

It's worth a try

Thanx. Carl

That's an incredible increase in performance. Sounds too good to be true. I am tempted to go out and buy a new hard drive and intall Linux on it and give it a shot. I need a new hard drive anyways.

Can anyone think of a reason why I shouldn't try running FS9 on Linux platform? Is there anything that a complete novice to Linux such as myself wouldn't be able to figure out? Would an experienced Windows user be able to install Linux and WINE and FS9?

Thanks for tolerating my extremely stupid questions. Tongue

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Reply #13 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 3:52am

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That's exactly what I was getting at. I would also like to know...thanks.

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Reply #14 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 4:39am

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MichaelH is spot-on when he says use the Mandrake system, it really is the best - any of the versions work brilliantly and I would recommend a 2 Hard-Drive set-up.

I had to tweak the OS settings a bit to get that kinda performance but it's worth the hassle Grin

As for ease of use i'm sure Michael will agree that Linux is MUCH MUCH more user friendly, it's somewhat like Windows *shudders* but with a helluva lot less errors.

For anyone who has the time and space I say GO GET IT NOW! !

When ya'll install the pograms leave replies on this post to let us know how you're doing.

Thanx. Carl

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