Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?
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@Enzetael if you have very old PC/laptop (no 64-bit / or no DX11) … but a good internet connection … I’d look into something like https://www.cloudwards.net/top-five-cloud-services-for-gamers/
not sure if anyone has done that with BMS… viz. how do they virtualize HOTAS devices … and TrackIR etc? I have no idea.
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
My pc can’t run falcon bms, but it can run falcon 4.0, I don’t care much about graphics, I just want to play online, so, I wanted to know if there’s a mod that just turns the graphics to the old one, and use software rendering instead of opengl because even falcon 4.0 doesn’t run on my pc because of the opengl, so I have to use software rendering or directx
Just turn all GFx options off in config
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@Mav-jp It doensn’t work, it just stays on a black screen and I have to turn off my pc because I can’t do anything. I guess I better play facon 4.0 instead of bms, because my pc doesn’t meet the minimum requirements to play it.
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
@Mav-jp It doensn’t work, it just stays on a black screen and I have to turn off my pc because I can’t do anything. I guess I better play facon 4.0 instead of bms, because my pc doesn’t meet the minimum requirements to play it.
How “old” is this PC? Because even a ~ 2015 ‘whatever’ PC can run without extra effect the game, especially if you are using only 1080p resolution. This seems to me rather something bug / VGA issue which you described rather as a performance limit.
What is your VGA, CPU + motherboard?
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@molnibalage Old at the point I can’t run the original Diablo 2, and can barely run the original Mafia 1 at the lowest graphical settings. Basically, my pc can run games from the 90 decade and below, but anything above, probably it won’t run, or if it run, runs at 2 fps.
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
it just stays on a black screen and I have to turn off my pc because
Anything in your
\Falcon BMS 4.37\User\Logs
folder?I feel like there should be some sort of visible error message … from Windows or BMS, if eg. you try to start it on 32-bit OS or don’t have DX11 graphics adapter.
What is your OS, and what GPU?
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
Old at the point I can’t run the original Diablo 2, and can barely run the original Mafia 1 at the lowest graphical settings. Basically, my pc can run games from the 90 decade and below, but anything above, probably it won’t run, or if it run, runs at 2 fps.
That you’re SOL Sorry but you’ll need a computer that is a bit faster and that can run Diablo II easily
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@Enzetael I’m curious now, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but please post your setup? PC specs? HOTAS? TrackIR?
I guess what I’m getting at is that you’ll need more than just a PC to be able to properly fly Falcon. Surely you’re not just using a mouse and keyboard to control everything? And you want to play online? While I appreciate that we all can’t have the latest and greatest toys, I was in a similar situation years ago and found that I could build a respectable PC from 2nd hand PC parts bought off of eBay or other simmers who were upgrading. I still needed to save up an make smart spending decisions, so it’s not exactly easy, but it is possible.
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@Flow32 said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
Old at the point I can’t run the original Diablo 2, and can barely run the original Mafia 1 at the lowest graphical settings. Basically, my pc can run games from the 90 decade and below, but anything above, probably it won’t run, or if it run, runs at 2 fps.
That you’re SOL Sorry but you’ll need a computer that is a bit faster and that can run Diablo II easily
A PC which can’t run only Dio II is too few even for the Falcon 4.0.
With Dio II you could play without 3D accelerator card but for Falcon 4.0 my 2MB Vesa S3 Trio was anything but sufficient.If you can buy just a PC which can have a 4GB 960GT (2015 entry level VGA) and a CPU from that time you easily can run the BMS4 in FHD without the additional effects.
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@airtex2019 There’s a crash log:
Falcon BMS.exe caused an EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT in:
0000000004628659 <UNKNOWN>
Exception handler called in UnhandledExceptionHandler.
BreakpointBytes at CS:RIP: CC 48 83 C4 58 C3 CC 48 89 5C 24 08 57 48 83 ECand I don’t have a GPU, just a chipset from intel that is integrated on the processor, but i’m not using it because of incompatible drivers, so i’m using the basic driver from microsoft, and for some reason, my pc is better with this basic driver than the chipset driver. and my os is windows 10 x64
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@Atlas
CPU: Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 4 Gb
GPU: None (But I have a chipset with 32mb of Shared VRam)
OS: Windows 10 x64
Pixel Shader: 3.0
Vertex Shader: 3.0
Shader Model: 3.0
DirectX: 9
OpenGL: 1.1 -
@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
@Atlas
CPU: Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 4 Gb
GPU: None (But I have a chipset with 32mb of Shared VRam)
OS: Windows 10 x64
Pixel Shader: 3.0
Vertex Shader: 3.0
Shader Model: 3.0
DirectX: 9
OpenGL: 1.1BMs requires dx11 capable GPU
Try falcon AF
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
and I don’t have a GPU
@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
GPU: None (But I have a chipset with 32mb of Shared VRam)
I thought as much. How are you playing Falcon or any flight sim? Do you have a joystick or HOTAS? Or a gamepad?
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@Mav-jp said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
@Atlas
CPU: Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 4 Gb
GPU: None (But I have a chipset with 32mb of Shared VRam)
OS: Windows 10 x64
Pixel Shader: 3.0
Vertex Shader: 3.0
Shader Model: 3.0
DirectX: 9
OpenGL: 1.1BMs requires dx11 capable GPU
Try falcon AF
I second Falcon Allied Force, many improvements over Falcon 4.0 and if all your friends have it multiplayer is good…
Should be able to find it for ~$5 online (saw it on Ebay (US) for $3.75)… when you get a video card from this decade, try BMS.
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@Enzetael said in Is there a way to make Falcon BMS have the falcon 4.0 graphics?:
even falcon 4.0 doesn’t run on my pc because of the opengl, so I have to use software rendering
there is a way to force DX apps to use WARP (the software-rasterizer built into Windows) … but at 1080p it gets about 5 fps on my 8-core desktop Core i7. my guess, it will be under 1fps on a dual-core laptop from 2008.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darticles/directx-warp
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/d3dconfig-a-new-tool-to-manage-directx-control-panel-settings/https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22498/graphics-card-for-server
if you’re feeling brave … crank your desktop resolution down to 1024x768 … and disable/minimize all graphics options via the Config.exe tool