Falcon 4 installation & BMS 4.33 U1
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Guys there are pm’s Skype Facebook and tones of apps that you can communicate and help the guy.
But since the agreement (and before) this is not the place to post such things.sent from my Xperia Z3 compact via TapaTalk
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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 doubt it would come to that For less than the price of shipping one could buy Falcon 4.0 in digital form. As irritating as it is to pay for a game twice, if you suspect it’s because it’s on physical CD media that you can’t install. GOG.com had a $2.50 sale but it’s current $10. Steam I hear is quite happy to offer refunds if it won’t install and is also available for purchase for a similar amount.
In fact, if you have a Steam account let me know and I’ll but you a copy. It’s $7.
There are several avenues of troubleshooting left for the disk though. First, to make sure it’s really Falcon 4.0 (not 3, Gold, Allied Force, etc.) Cleaning or polishing the disk. Trying to install it on another computer. Test copying the contents off the disk or making a copy to see if there is a particular read error (suggesting a scratch). I do have the “binder edition” CD which looks slightly different than yours. It’s possible that they are slightly different disks data-wise. Then ruling out physical errors look into user permissions like user admin rights, UAC settings, or running the setup as admin.
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I don’t think is his cd the problem. I think It’s his new pc with the win10x64 the “problem”. So he don’t need to buy a new copy of Falcon 4 in my opinion as he installed the game in older pc’s with Win XP and Win7 allready.
@stollysoft I’ll try to tell you what i did exactly an make my setup cd work.
- please follow the bellow steps to go at safe mode. Be aware of step #5 to press 4 or F4 and not 5/F5. You don’t need a network support for this installation.
1 . Press Windows logo key Windows logo key+I on your keyboard to open Settings. If that doesn’t work, select the Start button in the lower-left corner of your screen, then select Settings.
2. Select Update & security > Recovery.
3. Under Advanced startup, select Restart now.
4. After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart.
5. After your PC restarts, you’ll see a list of options. Select 4 or F4 to start your PC in Safe Mode.
- Before went to safe mode I had the cd in drive.
- Before went to safe mode I turn off the box at “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” for setup.exe and autorun
- In safe mode I execute the setup.exe direct from cd. The autorun didn’t start.
- I installed the Falcon 4 in diferent disk than C:\ with out problem (I choosed my other SSD drive E:).
- The installation went smooth and took around 5 minutes. In every installation screen I just clicked next without check or unchek any boxes except where to install the game (drive e:\ for me).
- UAC was disabled before enter safe mode.
- I have one user account in my Win10x64 pc and this account is the admin (ofcourse)
- I right click on setup.exe and run it as administrator.
- My original Falcon 4 CD is like brand new. The surface is like a mirron. Without scratches or fingertips.
- Pls check the attached photo bellow and veriffy that you have the Falcon 4 and not other versions of Falcon. I know you have this one but lets do a Frederf’s check :)) .
If the above don’t work for you (please try in ones more following the above step by step) then try in safe mode to change the compatibility mode (try them all).
If I come with something else I’ll keep you posted.
P.S. I know that feeling were something work fine for everyone and not for me, but also I respect the lines I have to not cross for make it work.
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What you are experimenting here is a well known limitation introduced in Windows 10.
This should Be added to the install procedure:
Later versions of the F4 CD were copy protected using “Safedisk”. this tool is no longer supported in Windows 10 and the software will not install.
A search of the web will provide you with plenty of solutions and workarounds, some legal, some not. The consensus is almost universal. Get yourself a not copy protected version and one of the best place for it is GoG.
Lucky us F4 is there.
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Thank you all for your help!
I wanted only to state here that I did finally succeed to install Falcon on my computer using my original CD and respecting the BMS rules; but please do not ask me further details on the procedure
And now…. finally takeoff! -
Rock on, happy flying.
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Trying to install 4.33 U1 on Win7 and I have the exe. installed on my computer, the CD is at my home halfway across the world……will I be able to install 4.33 U1?
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Trying to install 4.33 U1 on Win7 and I have the exe. installed on my computer, the CD is at my home halfway across the world……will I be able to install 4.33 U1?
No!!! Unfortuntly you have to go get it OR buy a new copy from steam or GoG with less than $10.
Please note: BMS 4.33 U1 requires a legit installation of a Falcon 4.0 (all older and newer versions are accepted alike, i.e. Microprose, Hasbro, GOG, Steam, Retroism). The check is performed both at setup time and every time you start BMS. If no valid installation is found, BMS will exit with a corresponding error message.
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No!!! Unfortuntly you have to go get it OR buy a new copy from steam or GoG with less than $10.
Looks like I’ll have to buy it, I doubt my wife will be able to find it and send it to me.
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I bought the gog version, as it’s a single .exe. I installed falcon 4.0, didn’t run even it, installed 4.33 u1, works no issues. Do it