Solved Upgrade vom BMS 4.36U3 to latest BMS 4.37
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Dear mates,
may I ask you for support concerning this upgrade. I was flying Falcon already 20 years ago, stopped and restarted recently again to fly. I sit on BMS 4.36U3 and I am slightly worried about upgrading to 4.37.
The actual Installation is a pure BMS setup with alternative launcher.
Therefore I have three questions:
a) Is it possible to keep my old installation and get a the second 4.37 in parallel.
b) Is there a tool around that keeps track about the different installations
c) May I directly copy my key file (HOTAS mapping) into the new installation.Thanks so much for your help – I am slighlty lost and don’t want to corrupt totally my setup.
If this was already discussed (I tried to look up but did not find that answers) please just point
me to that to save your time!Cheers,
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Hi,
a)/ Each major release is separate entity, so yes you can have 4.35, 4.36 and 4.37 installed at the same time .
b) . I’m not sure what kind of tool you need, but AL is aware of all of the BMS versions installed on your PC and you can launch ech one from there.c) Copying keyfiles is not reccomened practice, Recent releases of AL have option to import keyfiles. If you have to use old style keyfile, I’d copy BMS-full.key file of each version under new name, open new copy it in a notepad and paste HOTAS mapping config lines from you old keyfile.
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@Phonon it’s true the upgrade-path is still harder than it needs to be… it’s something I’m working on (for future releases, at least).
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yes 4.36 and 4.37 can coexist side-by-side
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you can click “Import Keys” in the new 4.37U3 launcher – but it will only import key bindings, not hotas/joystick axes or buttons.
also, there are a few new/changed callbacks, going from 4.36 to 4.37… right now, the only way to add those to an imported key file, is to edit the key file by hand – paste in the relevant lines, from the new BMS-Full.key.
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@airtex2019 Dear AirTex, thanks a lot … really … still a good community as it was in the old days … I am starting this morning training with my son (14 years old) – maybe in the evening I will try the installation. OK the HOTAS buttons would be nice, but it is also not
a disaster to rebind them again.Is the alternative launcher able to distinguish both installations than or do you I need it twice, one for the 4.36, and one for 4.37
I give me a half training – after that I will try to fly again multiplayer.
Cheers, dear mate!
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@Phonon AL will work to define axis/button mappings, for both 4.36 and 4.37
(you will have to do the work, twice – but you can use the latest AL to configure both BMS’s)
also, do make sure to get the post-U3 update which contained quite a few bug fixes for AL.