Falcon BMS Helper

This script is designed to help you manage and optimize Falcon BMS on Linux.

Zenity menus are used for a GUI experience with a fallback to terminal-based menus where Zenity is unavailable.
Command line arguments are available for quickly launching functions from the terminal.

Configuration is saved in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bms-helper/

Options

Preflight Check

• Runs a series of system optimization checks and offers to fix any issues
  • Checks that vm.max_map_count is set to at least 16777216
    • This sets the maxmimum number of "memory map areas" a process can have. While most applications need less than a thousand maps, Falcon BMS requires access to more
  • Checks that the hard open file descriptors limit is set to at least 524288
    • This limits the maximum number of open files on your system. On some Linux distributions, the default is set too low for Falcon BMS

Install Falcon BMS

• Installs Falcon BMS and Falcon 4.0 (GoG installer)

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Target a different Falcon BMS installation

  • Select a different wine prefix for the Helper to target in its operations

• Open Wine prefix configuration

  • Runs winecfg in the game's Wine prefix

• Open Wine controller configuration

  • Opens Wine's game controller configuration in the Wine prefix

• Install PowerShell into Wine prefix

  • Uses winetricks to install PowerShell

• Display Helper and Falcon BMS directories

  • Show all the directories currently in use by both the Helper and Falcon BMS

• Reset Helper configs

  • Delete the configs saved by the helper in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bms-helper/

Installation

From Source:

1. Download it! https://github.com/benchmarksims/bms-helper/releases
2. Extract it!
3. Place Falcon BMS_4.38.1_Full_Setup.exe, Falcon BMS_4.38.1_Full_Setup.nsisbin and setup_falcon_4_2.0.0.1.exe (from GoG) in the bms-helper extracted folder
4. Run the bms-helper.sh!

Dependencies: bash, coreutils, curl, polkit, wine Winetricks Dependencies: cabextract, unzip Optional Dependencies: zenity (for GUI)

Notes

Forked and inspired from:

• https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper