Windows X about to be released.
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Hi All,
Not been around for a while got bogged in with some Beta and Alpha testing on the new up and coming version of Windows ans its effect on BMS in general.
First I doffs my hat to the passing of XP SP3 and Vista Support by windows. Grab the virtual machine XPSP3 download while its still available you may find yourself in need of it its on the Microsoft site and dont be tempted to download it from anywhere else.
Ok now those of you that have been watching and reading whats been going on in the great U S of A will have noticed that Mr Gates has retired, rumor has it his wallet got way too heavy and his butt has grown around it and he cant move any more. LOL only kidding. He has left Microsoft and is now on an advisory capacity from the latest news. With his leaving MS policy has been to try and take over sales of MAC machines which have been climbing gradualy after the introduction of the wonderous Windows 8, then the guffed up release of the patch to cure the previous guffs 8.1.
Well support for XP and Vista has now gone bye bye, with support for Windows 7 due to follow in 2017 along with Windows 8. You really dont want to know about windows 9,lol. my god its worse than windows 95. The age of the pad is here as you already know and MS dont like being behind the MAC and its releases of OS X, cant think why they went for Microsoft X, anyhow.
The latest news among the beta community is as follows and this is as of today 29/05/2015. Thise of you with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 will be able to get an update to Windows 10 or X (Roman numerals for those who were wondering) for free in windows autoupdates. Those of us with Windows 7 may have to pay a small upgrade charge, the final vote on that is yet to come in as Windows 7 is still the most popular flavour.
So what about BMS, well the good news is that it works on the current beta as well as it does it windows 7. Now for some extra good news, those who know how to make a RAMDRIVE and have enough memory should go for that and a virtual XPSP3 works like greased lightning. Why I hear you say isnt windows X an update, yes and no, its a kind of thrown together piece of software like throwing Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8.1 Ultimate and a pinch of XPSP3. So far out of my own personal category of falcon versions, BMS 4.32, Falcon 6, Open Falcon (final release), SP4, all work unhindered IF you have the direct x SDK 8.1 installed also available from microsoft only, just to make the joysticks work. The RAMDRIVE will speed up machines that have memory and slower processors than 2.6 GHz either AMD or Intel, see Microsoft site for creation and implimentation.
As with all new systems the pool of machines used in beta testing is limited and theres thousands of varieties out there so if you come across bugs for falcon on standard windows x, switch to RAMDRIVE and virtual machine.
Hopefully theres talk in the community of rereleasing IPX/SPX protocol as an addon to networking, again its a rumour not a fact.
Good luck all with the new version to come and dont forget to GHOST your windows 7 just in case.
Gyro
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Good luck all with the new version to come and dont forget to GHOST your windows 7 just in case.
Gyro
thanx for the info Gyro
Basic, crucial, known, must, I told you so, rule for new ms os releases:
Don’t install it before it get’s it’s first service pack.ms does well those last years… in the old days the rule was:
Don’t install it before it get’s it’s forth service pack. -
hmm Falcon and Ramdrive… my falcon folder is about 24 GB so I will need how much memory exactly??? 24+8min=32gb… makes me wonder…
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hmm Falcon and Ramdrive… my falcon folder is about 24 GB so I will need how much memory exactly??? 24+8min=32gb… makes me wonder…
Ive had a similar problem Arty, ended up deciding that Balkans just had to go… on a junction link to the main HDD. Falcon install is just too big to fit all on the one SSD (at the price I could afford at the time anyway).
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It’s not that easy.
I use a ramdisk for many years.If you have too little RAM, RAMdisk causes the bsod.Normal ram memory still growing by running programs.If you have not enough RAM,this causes problems, and various hardware conflicts.
This happens with me, but maybe it’s the reason that I do not have too much memory.
The more memory the better,the more surely,That will not have problems. 32 gb is GOOD imo.You have in reserve ~8 gb of RAM.It is safe. -
Gyro, do you have a link for the files?
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Saw the release date end of july today. I guess BMS will work, no much fear here on my side. But what gives me headache is the hardware gear (Cougar, TM MFD’s, Pegasus and Shepards Cockpitstuff), i’m afraid there will be problems.
But only time can tell …
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Saw the release date end of july today. I guess BMS will work, no much fear here on my side. But what gives me headache is the hardware gear (Cougar, TM MFD’s, Pegasus and Shepards Cockpitstuff), i’m afraid there will be problems.
But only time can tell …
Yes my big concern is drivers, X-65F specifically
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Oh god, where do I start.
Not been around for a while got bogged in with some Beta and Alpha testing on the new up and coming version of Windows ans its effect on BMS in general.
Yes, they offered this to everyone. You’re hardly unique in this regard.
First I doffs my hat to the passing of XP SP3 and Vista Support by windows. Grab the virtual machine XPSP3 download while its still available you may find yourself in need of it its on the Microsoft site and dont be tempted to download it from anywhere else.
Anyone who still owns an XP disc can make an image of this themselves without a download, just in case any people out there who ACTUALLY know anything are up against bandwidth limits or don’t want to download something from Microsoft. If you don’t have a disc, I have about three dozen.
Well support for XP and Vista has now gone bye bye, with support for Windows 7 due to follow in 2017 along with Windows 8.
Wrong. Security and support for Windows 7 is on Microsofts plan until 2020. They just won’t add any new features.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2015/05/03/windows-7/26712331/
You really dont want to know about windows 9,lol. my god its worse than windows 95. The age of the pad is here as you already know and MS dont like being behind the MAC and its releases of OS X, cant think why they went for Microsoft X, anyhow.
Then you should follow the news more. There was no Windows 9. This has been news for two years, at least. Please don’t pretend like you and you alone were the only person that ever got to ‘peer behind the curtain’ to see a Windows OS that never existed and now you’re here to tell us all how bad it was.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-called-windows-10-not-windows-9
For those that don’t want to read the article, Microsoft is being coy, but the prevailing theory is that lots of software checks for Version 9 to identify 95/98 OS, and they don’t want to break it by creating Windows 9.0.
The latest news among the beta community is as follows and this is as of today 29/05/2015. Thise of you with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 will be able to get an update to Windows 10 or X (Roman numerals for those who were wondering) for free in windows autoupdates. Those of us with Windows 7 may have to pay a small upgrade charge, the final vote on that is yet to come in as Windows 7 is still the most popular flavour.
Wrong. Windows 7 Version is a free upgrade as well. I have never seen an article that said otherwise, I am not sure how you missed this obvious piece of news.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/21/windows-10-free-upgrades/
If anyone read his post and believed anything he said, at this point you should now be questioning your own sanity.
So what about BMS, well the good news is that it works on the current beta as well as it does it windows 7. Now for some extra good news, those who know how to make a RAMDRIVE and have enough memory should go for that and a virtual XPSP3 works like greased lightning.
The consequences of this are vast, to vast to cover in this thread. But slicing off part of your RAM to use as harddrive space is only going to take resources away from your PC that is hosting the virtual server. While this may perform a small boost for specific games that are reading and writing to the Harddrive frequently and often, most users won’t see any performance increase from this. I would leave it to the Dev’s to determine if Falcon would benefit from this, but typically the H/D is only in use during load screens. And those are few and far between in Falcon (at any rate, I’ve never sat at one for more then five secconds, so I would strongly suggest you NOT start mucking about with your systems RAM unless you SERIOUSLY know what you are doing
Why I hear you say isnt windows X an update, yes and no, its a kind of thrown together piece of software like throwing Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8.1 Ultimate and a pinch of XPSP3.
Also wrong. Far from being a Vista Upgrade (Windows 7) or Windows Mobile OS for the PC, Windows 10 is in fact an entirely new piece of software. In fact, if Gyro knew anything at all he would know that 7 was the first operating systems to throw out much of the work that had gone into XP. A large reason for the Bloat in Vista was an attempt to support a bunch of legacy software, patches, libraries and proprietary systems that customs heavily relied on. This is fairly common knowledge in the tech industry.
The RAMDRIVE will speed up machines that have memory and slower processors than 2.6 GHz either AMD or Intel, see Microsoft site for creation and implimentation.
NO. JUST NO. This is so wrong I question your understanding of computer technology. Reading from your hard drive faster via a RAMDRIVE will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SPEED UP YOUR GAME IF YOUR PROCESSOR IS NOT UP TO PAR. There are dozens upon dozens upon HUNDREDS of threads on here citing the CPU bottleneck on Falcon, a RAMDRIVE MAY help with loading screens if you have a problem with them.
Further more, creating a RAMDRIVE and running one on a system with a Virtual Drive is going to suck processor cycles away from your PC. You will in fact most probably see a SLOW DOWN because of the extra drain on your system. If your processor is that bad, forget the Virtual Machine, forget the RAMDRIVE (which requires software to run in the background to re-direct the processor to the RAM when it needs to read a file) and just install Windows 95 on your PC directly.
As with all new systems the pool of machines used in beta testing is limited
Microsoft says more then 1 million people have registered and downloaded the Windows 10 preview. I would be willing to bet that is more then double the number of people playing BMS.
Hopefully theres talk in the community of rereleasing IPX/SPX protocol as an addon to networking, again its a rumour not a fact.
This is not going to happen. IPX is a proprietary format, TCP/IP is a international standard. One costs money to license and use, one does not.
Good luck all with the new version to come and dont forget to GHOST your windows 7 just in case.
The proper term here is image, not ghost.
For those that want to question my credibility, I’ve been in Information Technology for 12 years professionally, the last four of it working for the world’s largest manufacturing company as a Senior Developer. I am proficient in three different programming languages. I have served as a UI Developer, a Server Admin, a Project Manager, and in Local Technology support roles at three different Fortune Five Hundred Companies.
I am not talking out of my ass when I make comments on here, keeping up with this business is literally my job, and I take it seriously.
I do not appreciate ill-informed people trying to blow up their own egos with fear mongering and posts so riddled with inaccuracies they ought to be removed by the administration.
In the future, everyone should disregard any advice Gyro gives about computer technology.
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closing this thread as it is going downhill fast
Please respect each other