BMS messes up all my other app windows on exit
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No TrackIR?
Nope. Haven’t had the interest for a few years. Works really nicely in DCS. Is it not possible to get this working in BMS?
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Not really tried the hat switch or POV hat. When I do testing in the cockpit without my TrackIR, I just use the mouse…. right click and drag. Sorry.
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I felt like off topic when It comes to visibility. I stated some of my opinions and hoped it back to OP, but I never expected things go this way.
Thanks for that. Did you see my post 34 above about the software you mentioned?
Yeah, so I suggest This.
TrackIR, POV hat works in BMS too. In BMS you should hold right click then move a mouse to pan view so if you use touchpad you should do same things.
Try finger gesture which means “right click” and keep it then move a cursor.DCS would be good sim too if you like to get a knowledge about many planes inside the cockpit operations and play with so flexible sandbox mission editor, find Multiplay session and friend easily.
BMS would be good sim if you like to learn inside the cockpit of F-16 and also experience outside cockpit - not to mention Dynamic Campaign, There is a Reliable Visibility System,Radio emulating VoIP, Datacard, DynamicWeather…All I miss when I play DCS. -
We’ll it has to do with resolution, does the other apps you refrer to go low as 1024x768?
U could try dos box and go VGA res thus 640x480. See what happens.
:lol: that I want to see: a 27" super ultra hd monitor playing dos PACMAN.Also it’s a Mac , well win Mac thing.
Mostly in hw.
Apple doesn’t provide good support for her products for other platforms. Many many examples out there which ppl don’t know, until they face them .
I also have one , my mini Mac doesn’t go to the res of hd ready which is my tv. 900€ and doesn’t do basic staff. -
We’ll it has to do with resolution, does the other apps you refrer to go low as 1024x768?
U could try dos box and go VGA res thus 640x480. See what happens.
:lol: that I want to see: a 27" super ultra hd monitor playing dos PACMAN.Also it’s a Mac , well win Mac thing.
Mostly in hw.
Apple doesn’t provide good support for her products for other platforms. Many many examples out there which ppl don’t know, until they face them .
I also have one , my mini Mac doesn’t go to the res of hd ready which is my tv. 900€ and doesn’t do basic staff.It’s a Mac, but I feel that is irrelevant. In native Windows, it’s the same as any other Windows machine, Intel i7, AMD GPU, Hitachi HDD/SSD, Corsair DDR3 RAM, etc. The only Apple stuff comes with drivers for the Trackpad, Keyboard, Bluetooth, etc. The monitor uses the Microsoft driver, the GPU uses the latest AMD Crimson drivers, sound is AMD HD. If users have any issues with running Windows, it is usually to do with trackpad, keyboard etc.
Dell also produce a 5120x2880 monitor. I don’t know if anyone here has tried that.
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OK guys, I’ve come across a practical issue with this problem. How do I do any training mission? Because there is no dialogue in BMS training (unlike DCS, for example) surely it is necessary to alt-tab to the Training Manual pdf, no? If so, then it is impossible for me as the Adobe Reader window, of course, changes it’s size and position, and reading the manual is impossible!
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Not really tried the hat switch or POV hat. When I do testing in the cockpit without my TrackIR, I just use the mouse…. right click and drag. Sorry.
Discovered that the trackpad 2-finger tap up and down works superbly as view zoom. Just as in DCS. Only thing I need to do now as re-assign the right mouse click to a key, as that won’t work with a touchpad/trackpad.
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OK guys, I’ve come across a practical issue with this problem. How do I do any training mission?
Because there is no dialogue in BMS training (unlike DCS, for example) surely it is necessary to alt-tab to the Training Manual pdf, no?No, i decided that rather than having voice over which is highly unpractical in a dynamic situation (and which we had before but wasn’t satisfactory) to make a book that goes along the training mission
Each training mission has its own chapter in that manual. Just print it and you don’t have to alt tabSo no it’s not impossible.
Once again, 99% of the users can alt tab and read the manual on their screen.
You can’t because you use a mammoth resolution screen and you have to blow up your windows by 2 to keep them readable
that’s the main issue here, the blowing factor of the windows which old BMSui can’t cope with.
that’s why you have this issue and unfortunately since you’re a real minority in an already small minority, your issue is not hi priority because it entails a full rewrite of the ui code.if i were in your shoes, i’d revert back to a simple lower res setup, but i understand why you wouldn’t do that
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(Cheap tablet?)
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(Cheap tablet?)
Don’t know about cheap, but yes, I remembered earlier that I had previously used my iPad sitting next to the screen for this. Sorted!
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I think you have to fit your body to BMS rather than try BMS working with your way.
1.Change Screen Resolution setting to WQHD every time before launching windowed BMS. No need to reboot and it’s much faster than booting TARGET or any other joystick drivers to run profiles.
2.Try using a mouse to pan view or purchase reasonable free track clip from eBay.(or EDtracker)
By the way talking about how to pan around the view. I think there still is a way to do it with your touchpad.
According to BMS-Manual by enabling mouselook option you don’t have to hold right click to pan view and just simply moving mouse would allow you to look around.
By default it is Alt+2 to toggle “mouselook - clickable pit”3.If 1. doesn’t help to keep PDF window size when alt+tab from BMS, Print it or use a tablet to read BMS-Training.
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I think you have to fit your body to BMS rather than try BMS working with your way.
1.Change Screen Resolution setting to WQHD every time before launching windowed BMS. No need to reboot and it’s much faster than booting TARGET or any other joystick drivers to run profiles.
2.Try using a mouse to pan view or purchase reasonable free track clip from eBay.(or EDtracker)
By the way talking about how to pan around the view. I think there still is a way to do it with your touchpad.
According to BMS-Manual by enabling mouselook option you don’t have to hold right click to pan view and just simply moving mouse would allow you to look around.
By default it is Alt+2 to toggle “mouselook - clickable pit”3.If 1. doesn’t help to keep PDF window size when alt+tab from BMS, Print it or use a tablet to read BMS-Training.
- thanks, but in some ways it is probably easier to resize a few windows than to change res back and fore each time.
- in fact, I switched on my Magic Mouse and it works a treat in BMS! Top right corner tap for 3D view, 1 finger drag to zoom in and out, etc. Solved that issue!
- Yes, my iPad was the solution as posted above.
Thanks again for your help.
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OK guys, a new problem. The Tower menu doesn’t display correctly. See attached.
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OK guys, a new problem. The Tower menu doesn’t display correctly. See attached.
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?29185-Tower-control
Post# 10 - DPI issue.
C9
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@Cloud:
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?29185-Tower-control
Post# 10 - DPI issue.
C9
Thanks for the suggestion, but that was not the answer. I tried running at 2560x1440 with my native res set to 100% scaling and it made no difference. Same issue with Tower options box.
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Is your Windows text size setting set different than 100%?
You can also edit the size of the comm window by editing this file:
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Take a look at my hotlist.
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Is your Windows text size setting set different than 100%?
You can also edit the size of the comm window by editing this file:
\Data\Art\ckptart\menu.datThanks Icarus, that did the trick.
I edited the menu.dat file to add in this line ‘#resolution 2560 1440 375 2000 700 2400’ and also added:
#resolution 2560 1440
#font 0 1 0 8 Arial
#font 1 1 0 10 Arial
#font 2 0 0 8 Arial
#font 3 1 0 10 Arial
#font 4 1 0 10 Arial
to the otwfonts.dat file.
All working great now!
Regarding the scaling, as I said in a post above, changing that from 200% to 100% made no difference. The issue was the same.
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Take a look at my hotlist.
Thanks Arty. I’m afraid I don’t know what your ‘hotlist’ is! Sorry. Can you enlighten me?