Posts made by JawBone

@melanol said in Template Rotation option:

Still works for me.

Can you tell me which hotkeys you use?

Also, I am running FAF on Ubuntu 22.04 jammy (Linux).

Anybody have any idea what Template Rotation does?

It's suppose to be activated by pressing the middle mouse button. But the all my middle mouse button does is allow me another way to pan the game map?!?!

I'm asking because, while most templates I probably would not want or need to rotate the orientation, but I could see doing this if I was try to set up a skirmish line to protect a mountain pass or something.

see attached screen shot>>>>

Update 003: I just test played FAF for about an hour using zulu-11 in the co-op... but with just me against the AI. I did not notice any issues. That is FAF seemed to work fine now using zulu-11.... either that or FAF is still using java 17 with my system set to use zulu-11 as default.

yes... I will see about making a script to set the Java_Home variable. Thanks!

Apparently, I have another program that requires zulu-11-amd64, ( java-11-openjdk-amd64) to run instead of java-17-openjdk-amd64. I discovered this when I tried to launch the program today. I had to re-install java 11 to get it to launch. (note: I suspect that this program would work with java 17 but it is not setup to use it). Therefore, my question is there a way I set FAF to run with java 17 and the other program to run with java 11?

@coffeeanon well, thats the extent of my knowledge. perhaps someone else can help? =/

@jawbone Update 002: I was just informed by an admin on discord that the tutorials are a known issue and have been broken since the last update... more or less.

UPDATE.... Please note that this problem occurs when I click the "launch tutorials" button under the tutorials tab. I just tried actually play the FAF mod on the play tab and I was able to make a game and play the AI by myself.

I can't seem to run the tutorials.

did you try updating the JVM?

Please note that I am first time FAF player trying to get it up and running too. So far no luck for me.

But, it looks like a JVM problem. you can check your version by:

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Run the following command: java -version

It appears it needs to be at least ver 17. see the FAF wiki>>> https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Linux-Install

Greetings, I just discovered FAF and would like to play it. I loved playing Supreme Commander and FA. I am very happy to discover there is still active group of gamers.

But since 2016 I only run linux mint on my systems. Currently I am running Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

I installed FAF per instructions on the wiki here, but using the script install method, (see link >>> https://github.com/FAForever/faf-linux/blob/master/README.md#setup-instructions)

FAF did not work. So I checked my JVM version. Apparently LM 21.1 ships with version JVM 11. So I used "sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre" per to the wiki instructions. Now it appears I am running "openjdk version "17.0.6" 2023-01-17" when I do a version check.

Note that I did not uninstall JVM ver. 11.

At this time, the FAF client still gives me the same error message and appears to be totally borked.

Please see below a screenshot of the error message I get >>>>

Please find attached a system info file too. sys info.txt