Cannot launch BMS in Win 10
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Don’t beat yourself up or give up too quickly.
Falcon can be finickey to get going but, will be worth it in the end.
I’m sure you’ll get some more helpful suggestions during the week. -
In the falcon setup/graphics, is your card selected?
What screen resolution is it set to?
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My screen resolution is 1920 x 1080. As for the graphics and screen resolution setting in sim don’t I have to be able to Launch the program to access that? Otherwise how do I get to it? I
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I had a similar issue, I ended up installing it into C:/program files. this fixed the issue. I think I probably porked my registry in the folder. May be worth a try.
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Try to reset all your audio devices (playback & recording) to default settings.
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If you’re talking external devices I haven’t even hooked any speakers yet. If you’re talking about in sim don’t I have to successfully Launch in order to access the Setup page?
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Sorry, miss read you initial post. I thought you could get to the set up page.
Do plug in some sort of audio device, speakers / headset.
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Well of course I want to hear the sounds of crumpling metal at the end of the tarmac as I attempt to land! Just kidding, I’m not quite that bad but the term Sierra Hotel has never been applied either. I do have speakers and a headset. Just gotta get the sim launched first. Still haven’t even setup my Cougar, rudder pedals, or MFDs either.
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Not a suggestion but, a trouble shooting step.
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Copy that. Will have to wait til after a full work day +4 hours but wil do this evening. Thanks again for taking the time to help me.
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Also, look in your falcon/user/logs directory and post the latest crash log here, using the “code” tags.
Might help to give a clue what’s going on.12 hour work days, yuck. Must be a hospital or public safety?
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Good guess…clinical pharmacist in a hospital for 25 years now. (damn I’m getting old)
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Not a suggestion but, a trouble shooting step.
Please plug in an audio device.Un-f-ing believable!! Badger, if you can tell me how you thought that would help I’ll say your a genius. Until then I’m gonna have to guess lucky. I came home from work and plugged in an old set of speakers just for the H of it and the sim launched on the first try. Sadly I’m afraid to move any of the wires now that I know it is that finicky! How did that do anything?
The important thing is that it did and I was able to go into the setup, verify my graphics card, resolution settings, and setup my Cougar. Now it’s time to fly!
I expect something else to go wrong at any time but I know there is a great community willing to help me out. Thank you all so much. -
Happy to hear that it’s running for you.
Let the journey and the fun begin. -
Resetting your audio devices as I also proposed would do the same result. It is a bug of current; Win10, the audio service gets tighten and stucked to a (any) previous “request” (playing a video file or listening music), and prevents another program from using the audio services.
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Happy days.
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Resetting your audio devices as I also proposed would do the same result. It is a bug of current; Win10, the audio service gets tighten and stucked to a (any) previous “request” (playing a video file or listening music), and prevents another program from using the audio services.
That makes much more sense now. Seemed so strange that just plugging a speaker would solve the problem. I really appreciate everyone’s willingness to help. This is clearly a great community. Thanks Raptor!
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I have never been able to get Falcon BMS 4.33 to work. It never ran on Windows 8.1 and it did not run even after I upgraded to Windows 10. I am using BMS 4.33 U1 (even the earlier version did not run). What I mean by “did not run/not work” is that after I bring up the launch screen and click on the “Commit” button, the screen just freezes. I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to exit out of the screen and then I get the dialog box that “Falcon BMS has stopped working”. I do have the Crash log files, and if you can tell me how to upload them and where I will do that (it is quite long to paste here I think).
Kodakrx, can you elaborate on “Reset your audio device”? How do you reset your audio devices?
Thanks…
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I have never been able to get Falcon BMS 4.33 to work. It never ran on Windows 8.1 and it did not run even after I upgraded to Windows 10. I am using BMS 4.33 U1 (even the earlier version did not run). What I mean by “did not run/not work” is that after I bring up the launch screen and click on the “Commit” button, the screen just freezes. I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to exit out of the screen and then I get the dialog box that “Falcon BMS has stopped working”. I do have the Crash log files, and if you can tell me how to upload them and where I will do that (it is quite long to paste here I think).
Kodakrx, can you elaborate on “Reset your audio device”? How do you reset your audio devices?
Thanks…
Actually Rajesh I don’t really know what that entails. As for my situation I simply plugged in a cheap set of speakers to the computer’s headphone jack and everything worked flawlessly thereafter. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
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I don’t know if that still works, but disabling the intro movie also sometimes helps with startup crashes and / or black screens.
Uwe