Falcon 4 installation & BMS 4.33 U1
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Start Windows in “safe mode” and then install Falcon 4.
Worked for me, thanks Miltiades
I’m guessing it’s a permissions thing, yet like the others I tried Run as Admin etc so why does Safe Mode work?
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Thanks Ratfink +1. It worked for me in Windows 7 64bit too.
That was another evening wasted on the latest variation on the Falcon Dance! :dhorse:
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First try XP SP3 compatibility mode. If that doesn’t work try booting safe mode. Safe mode means Windows starts with minimal amount of things loaded. Antivirus is an example of software that can keep your installation from working.
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I currently have the same issue on Win 7 x64. I will continue to try and I’ll let you know if I discover anything.
Weird. I installed mine on windows 7 x64 with SP1 without to run as admin.
I noticed that the autorun.exe didn’t worked and then i was run the setup.exe. Installation went smooth and i set a Compact installation type.
Everything went well as also the installation of BMS 4.33 U1.Note: Autorun didn’t run due to Avira anti-virus setting to block them ;).
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Oh i knew that was coming…
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The original Falcon 4 (1998 release) installed flawlessly on Windows 10 x64 for me. Put the CD in, waited for the autorun window and selected the install option. The installer initialization window sat for a while at 100%, but continued without a hitch after that.
Notes:
- My user account has administrator rights.
- The minimal install option for F4 (150 MB) will do.
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Hi all
I buy Falcon 4.0 on Steam and install it, work fine on PC I download the 4.33_U1 and install it, but when i will start a Mission or Campaign, the Game crash.My System:
Win 10/ 64
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Does the setup process remain in the taskmanager? or does it truly abort?
No, it stays at task manager but doing nothing. Stays like frozen. CPU use 0% as Ratfink says.
Edit: After this post I saw Miltiades one and issue solved!
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I went in safe mode as Miltiades sayes and the installation went smooth at the end!!! Not run as admin and with out compatibility mode changes. Just went at safe mode, insert the cd and start the installation.
So that was Solved the Falcon 4 installation issue.
Thank you guys for your support!!!Cheers
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I went in safe mode as Miltiades sayes and the installation went smooth at the end!!! Not run as admin and with out compatibility mode changes. Just went at safe mode, insert the cd and start the installation.
So that was Solved the Falcon 4 installation issue.
Thank you guys for your support!!!Cheers
DanaosSounds good when an other user have it installed ;).
Now enjoy it…
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Yeap safe mode on Win10 64bit worked ok for falcon 4.0. Installed it from HDD. BMS 4.33.1 installed ok afterwards in normal mode.
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Hi all,
unfortunately I have no luck at all. The setup.exe does not start, freeze at 0% as many here on my Win10 64. I tried every compatibility configuration and in safe mode, but also there the setup does not start after the autoexecute CD install screen (which starts setup.exe). Same thing from CD and if I copy all the stuff to HD to launch from there.
I have only one active account on my computer, the admin.
Some suggestions?
Is there an alternative installer for Falcon 4.0?
May I copy the CD files on the HD and do a .reg file exist with the registry setting to “manual” complete install?Thnx for any help you may provide me!
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edit by Netstat
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please do not post something like this ever again Frederf
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:lol: that wasn’t so quick…
Ooohhhhhh dear…sent from my Xperia Z3 compact via TapaTalk
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For those of you that saw the original content of the post by Frederf above, such as via an email notification, please be clear that deriving such information is a clear violation of the Falcon BMS EULA in that it constitutes reverse engineering a part of the code.
Posting that did not in this case result in a perma-ban ONLY because it was perhaps not clear that offering that kind of information, be it complete or incomplete, does cross line and trips the zero-tolerance policy. Let there be no further doubt that reverse engineering the game materials and the install/runtime checks and then posting information about that on the Forum (or anywhere else that comes to our attention) will result in permanent ban from this Forum.
Why are we making a big deal of this?? Good question. Falcon BMS is distributed with the permission of the Falcon 4.0 copyright owner and we can continue to enjoy that endorsement only as long as the conditions are met – in this case specifically that a viable install of Falcon 4.0 is present on any system where Falcon BMS is installed and/or run. Any deliberate attempt or even inadvertent slip that can undermine that requirement has the potential to jeopardize the BMS team’s ability to deliver to you improvements to Falcon BMS in future.
Please help us to help you: just install Falcon 4.0 as-is from the installer materials you purchased and then let it be so you can install and continue to run Falcon BMS. Minimum Falcon 4.0 installation works for a residency size of 150MB or which is peanuts in today’s disk-size-money.
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I’m sorry to add to this discussion at this point, the premise is that I did not see the post from Frederf, but may imagine that he suggested some methods to overcome my issue.
I have original material that simply do not install on my Win10, and the method of safe mode do not work either. In all cases, the provided setup.exe will not show up anything. It might be some drivers, it might be some authorization issue, it might be some reason difficult to track down. I only know that my CD works well on my smaller laptops (with XP) and on one older computer with win7. On the new one, with win10 64, it is refusing to work even in safe mode trick, and simply do not show up. I don’t think to be alone with this issue.
I respect the new policy of BMS and the copyright holder, but on the other hand, I do not understand why to not provide other method to get the install of Falcon 4.0 if a file endorsed in the past century simply do not work on some new systems, and install of the necessary condition to continue to use gratefully BMS as an extension to my Falcon 4.0 disk is pure matter of luck.
Just to be clear, if I am seeking help here on this forum is because I want to perform the install legit to the BMS directives, not to seek “other solutions” that perhaps may solve my problem immediately elsewhere. If the idea of a “manual” install of Falcon 4.0 is against the rules, I beg your pardon: but I want only to seek some solution to overcome the issues that a more than 15 old setup file is giving me on my system, and cannot think any other “conventional” methods to satisfy the new BMS requirement I have already tried. But please help me out somehow.
It is possible that I am really the only one having this problem even in safe mode?
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Starting from the materials you have in hand, what was posted does not address your situation.
Some suggestions?
Is there an alternative installer for Falcon 4.0?
May I copy the CD files on the HD and do a .reg file exist with the registry setting to “manual” complete install?You will, I’m afraid, need to figure out how to get the installer to run on your intended target machine. There are many people posting that it does work on 64-bit Win10 so at least there’s plenty of existence proof.
Pardon granted, but yes, please do not ask for alternative installers or workarounds. That discussion would absolutely cross the line and get everyone involved a perma-ban. Sorry to be the bad guy, especially when you seem to be having trouble for some inexplicable reason. However, I hope you understand that we are more or less forced to be vigilant, perhaps nearing the point of over-compensation, to preserve our ability to continue to serve the wider community.
Good luck – I’m sure there is a solution for you (unfortunately, I’m not the right person to provide the help).
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It was not my intention to provide information to facilitate any illicit behavior but merely to assist someone overcome a technical trouble during the course of normal installation. I can see how my additional insight crossed the line.
I hope stollysoft is able to successfully install, use, and enjoy BMS. It should work completely normally as I installed Falcon 4.0 from disk a few days ago on Win10x64 without the slightest problem so there is good hope for success.
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Please leave me some address to ship to you my desktop together with my Falcon CD I have, in order to let you perform the install by some magic workaround.
Is this the only suitable way to solve my problem?I beg pardon for the ironic comment in advance, but please share my feeling to not be able to play BMS due to restrictions that I feel should not apply at least to me and in my case. I have tried everything, and nothing have worked out. We may assume that players playing BMS are not standard, profane computer users: therefore trust me if I say, again, that I have tried everything, by going the right way as I intended to follow, but nothing appears to work.
I would have preferred that the development of a “modern” setup.exe to the Falcon 4.0 CD was a possible way, but I see that this is not being considered; probably because I am the only one affected by this problem. This let me feel somehow unlucky!
Nevertheless, I suggest to stop this discussion here, since, on the other hand, I feel that my problem must not affect the community and the BMS agreements. I understand perfectly the position of BMS in this matter.
Thank you for your work and efforts, really!