BMS 4.33.1 and FreeFalcon 6 simulatneous install?
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How can I install FreeFalcon 6 alongside BMS? It already detects the base Falcon 4.0 install, so there’s a conflict.
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Hi there.
Sounds the like conflict being between FF6 and the vanilla Falcon 4 base install, huh?
I don’t know if BMS would accept FF6 in it’s start-up checks. Probably not.I assume FF6 and the vanilla install share the same registry key “/microprose/Falcon 4” or something. But I am not 100% sure on this, so take my words with a grain of salt.
Then the only way would be to switch the regisitry entries between FF6 and the base install. There is a tool called reg-switcher or falcon-switcher something like that?
It was commonly used in the past to switch between multiple falcon installs.
If you’re lucky this tool could write the FF6 registry entries just when you’re going to start FF6 and afterwars replace it again by the vanilla Falcon 4 registry so that could be used by BMS to detect your base installation.Basically you install vanilla Falcon 4 and then export/save the registry entry and delete this entry from the registry.
Then you install FF6 in another directory and again save the reg entry.
Depending on what you want to use, you now have to restore the according registry entry.As said before, there should be a tool taking care of this.
Cheers
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Where can I download this reg-switcher/falcon-switcher. And yes, I think you are correct in saying that FreeFalcon 6 sharing the same registry as the unmodded Falcon 4.0 so if I remove the base Falcon 4.0 install, would BMS still be able to run? Otherwise I would have no option but to use the tools you suggested.
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I have 3 previously installed versions of FF6 and BMS no problem
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I see. Did you use the falconswitcher tool? I can’t find any guides or tutorials online though since the websites all seem to be dead.
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nope. straight install. Only issue I have experienced is when re-installing I had to clean the registry first manually.
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Maybe this info can help as well. Note the different locations in the registry for 64 bit windows systems.
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What should I do in order to install both?