Does running Xplane on Linux give you better FPS?

 

 

...There are a handful of not compatible addons but honestly I don't give a s*. I would rather move to Flightgear than back to Windows.

Wow strong words indeed! 

I respect if not understand your fealty to Linux but I think most for people the OS is secondary; just a vessel with which to run their preferred flightsim, i.e. X-Plane 10. Quality addons are already thin on the ground compared to FS so I reiterate that surely it is only worth swapping to a different OS if it improves the overall X-Plane experience? Depriving oneself of a bunch of great addons just to be able to say, yeah I run Linux and am proud of it, will not necessarily stand out as a credible or logical reason to your average XP enthusiast. I have heard talk of improved XP performance; that's already a good reason to at least try out Linux. So to go back to my original question - what price would we pay in terms of incompatible addons to do just that?  :smile:

 

 

Does running Xplane on Linux give you better FPS?

 

Yes!  Tried it on Lubuntu yesterday, and did notice improvement... I am still trying to find the right distribution for me... Flight Simulation is not my only focus ...

I have heard talk of improved XP performance; that's already a good reason to at least try out Linux. So to go back to my original question - what price would we pay in terms of incompatible addons to do just that?  :smile:

Well, at least on the scenery side you do not have to fear much. Only maybe if a very complex airport scenery uses some 3rd party plug-ins for some nice/fancy/useful animations etc. .... So, in the end its always boils down to the question if a given plug-in runs on Linux or not. Most of everything else should not depend on the OS.

Nearly forgot, my VA's Acars only runs on Windows so it looks like I'm staying put for now.

Hmmm... I see that Euro Truck Simulator 2 also now has a Linux beta.

Yes!  Tried it on Lubuntu yesterday, and did notice improvement... I am still trying to find the right distribution for me... Flight Simulation is not my only focus ...

 

 

What exactly are you focusing on other than Flight ?

What exactly are you focusing on other than Flight ?

 

Weather modelling :-) / nowcasting, but not for flight simulation :-)

Weather modelling :-) / nowcasting, but not for flight simulation :-)

 

Alright. cool man.

 

Are you looking out for some weather based software's ? you must be knowing about source-forge , 1000's of software's may be you may get what you are looking for.  There is also howtoforge but it is mainly for setups and stuff.

 

BTW FSX is packed up and given away

Alright. cool man.

 

Are you looking out for some weather based software's ? you must be knowing about source-forge , 1000's of software's may be you may get what you are looking for.  There is also howtoforge but it is mainly for setups and stuff.

 

BTW FSX is packed up and given away

 

That's my RL job :-)

 

I didn't have to pack FSX this time... The three copies I bought in the past were , 1 offered and 2 trashed. The last one was bought through GFWL - tried to make it work in Linux, but got a trange error :blink:

That's my RL job :-)

 

I didn't have to pack FSX this time... The three copies I bought in the past were , 1 offered and 2 trashed. The last one was bought through GFWL - tried to make it work in Linux, but got a strange error :blink:

 

 

LOL you tried to use FSX on linux hahaha , did you try it with Wine ?

Okay... I decided to try this out, so I have downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and burnt it to disc (I will install it on my new PC which should be up and running in a few days).

 

THEN... I read that probably currently the most popular XP10 addon - SkyMaxx Pro - is NOT compatible with Linux. Well that took the wind out of my sails! WTH? Kinda strange now that Linux finally seems to be establishing itself in the gaming world with SteamOS etc., that the good folks at X-Aviation chose to ignore for whatever reason (missing skillset?) this growing OS.

 

Soooo I guess the big question is... when guys?

In the meantime that will not stop me from trying an XP Linux install (what a bummer though).

Okay... I decided to try this out, so I have downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and burnt it to disc (I will install it on my new PC which should be up and running in a few days).

 

THEN... I read that probably currently the most popular XP10 addon - SkyMaxx Pro - is NOT compatible with Linux. Well that took the wind out of my sails! WTH? Kinda strange now that Linux finally seems to be establishing itself in the gaming world with SteamOS etc., that the good folks at X-Aviation chose to ignore for whatever reason (missing skillset?) this growing OS.

 

Soooo I guess the big question is... when guys?

In the meantime that will not stop me from trying an XP Linux install (what a bummer though).

I agree, it's pretty annoying that SkyMaxx Pro isn't supported  - some of the aerosoft textures are ok - so I'm using those. The one reason I keep windows installed is to use SkyMaxx at times.

I gave Linux another shot. This time OpenSUSE with LXDE interface. After trying  Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, this is the first one I got to work without problems!!!

 

And surprisinly, I got the newest Nvidia driver on it without any issues. That's a relief.

 

But then I tried installing X-Plane. Downloaded the installer from X-Plane website, since it's required to use the one from the website instead of the one inside the DVD. Tried unziing it for half an hour without sucess, downloaded multiple Zip softwares, that somehow didn't show up on the application list.

 

So I eventually learned to unzip from the Terminal. Ok, I have the executable now, but who says my Linux is running it? I double click, try to open in terminal, everything, and it just doesn't do anything...

 

 

Wow, really, I can't understand why people say Linux is harder to use than Windows... It just took me hours to get Drivers, to unzip a file and then I can't open an executable.

I gave Linux another shot. This time OpenSUSE with LXDE interface. After trying  Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, this is the first one I got to work without problems!!!

 

And surprisinly, I got the newest Nvidia driver on it without any issues. That's a relief.

 

But then I tried installing X-Plane. Downloaded the installer from X-Plane website, since it's required to use the one from the website instead of the one inside the DVD. Tried unziing it for half an hour without sucess, downloaded multiple Zip softwares, that somehow didn't show up on the application list.

 

So I eventually learned to unzip from the Terminal. Ok, I have the executable now, but who says my Linux is running it? I double click, try to open in terminal, everything, and it just doesn't do anything...

 

 

Wow, really, I can't understand why people say Linux is harder to use than Windows... It just took me hours to get Drivers, to unzip a file and then I can't open an executable.

 

 

It could be a permission issue. Try running "sudo x-planeinstaller"  you can check the logs real time with "tail -f /var/log/messages or maybe it is now "tail -f /var/log/system"  I don't remember much now , though was a pure Suse guy. 

 

Chmod 755 X-planeinstaller , also check the user rights on it using  "ls -l x-planeinstaller".  if it is root:root then use sudo or change the owner rights

 

chown xxxx:user (the group your username is under) x-planeinstaller .. BTW you may need to install ia-lib libraries. 

 

Best is to check the log which I have mentioned above.

Well, I'm not going crazy with all these command lines, but thanks for the help!

 

I'm used to a world where I double Click and the executable opens the software, and that's how I plan on continuining using my PC.