RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3

[depapier]

Hey everyone, as discussed on Falcon Lounge discord:

To fix the missing <M> on RWR you need to alter the 3 lines in FALCON4_RCD.XML file.

line 87 <BeamWidth>30.0</BeamWidth> instead of 9
line 733 <BeamWidth>45.0</BeamWidth> instead of 9
line 1208 <BeamWidth>30.0</BeamWidth> instead of 9.

The fix needs to be done on every machine and every theater.

For the default, Korea theater the file can be found at Falcon BMS 4.35\Data\TerrData\Objects . However the change needs to be made for each theater, so use your windows search function to find it. I’ve done this change for Balkans, Baltic, Iberia, Georgia, Israel, Israel 1980s, Mideast128, Somalia, Kuweit theaters and haven’t found any significant differences in xml files, but your mileage may vary, so it’s best to add lines manually rather than just swap the file. The changes touch the AIM-120, AIM-54A, AA-12 (R-77).

UPDATE:

Rather than forcing every user to manually edit this file for each campaign they have installed, a member of the community has graciously created a utility which will make the appropriate changes to any instance of this file found in the BMS install directory.

All you need to do is download the file and run it. It doesn’t matter where you download it to or run it from, it will still work as long as you give it permissions to run.
Note: Windows 10 users may see a blue warning dialog box when attempting to run the utility. Click “More Info”, and then “Run Anyway” to run the program.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cZEq_NWloEdKAWWYP2X7JmJIs9koTDZU/view?usp=sharing

[Icer]

@depapier said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

Hey everyone, as discussed on Falcon Lounge discord:

For the default, Korea theater the file can be found at Falcon BMS 4.35\Data\TerrData\Objects . However the change needs to be made for each theater, so use your windows search function to find it. I’ve done this change for Balkans, Baltic, Iberia, Georgia, Israel, Israel 1980s, Mideast128, Somalia, Kuweit theaters and haven’t found any significant differences in xml files, but your mileage may vary, so it’s best to add lines manually rather than just swap the file. The changes touch the AIM-120, AIM-54A, AA-12 (R-77).

The file names that were given for replacement are “FALCON4_RCD.XML” and “FALCON4_RCD_HOLD.XML”, do the same lines need to be changed in both? (actually looking now, the HOLD file only seems to be for Korea and Balkans so far…)

[depapier]

@icer I’ve only seen the falcon4_rcd.xml file mentioned, so that’s the only one i’d modify.

[oakdesign]

@icer FALCON4_RCD_HOLD.XML is not a BMS DB file so if you have it in one of your theaters might be some uncleaned leftover from the Theater developer but AFAIKT not used by BMS at all

[Icer]

@oakdesign said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

@icer FALCON4_RCD_HOLD.XML is not a BMS DB file so if you have it in one of your theaters might be some uncleaned leftover from the Theater developer but AFAIKT not used by BMS at all

Oak, it’s in KTO and Balkans, it was part of the “fix.zip” that was floating around, good to know it isn’t necessary!

[spotdott]

Thank you, I started Bear trap and don’t know why SA-10s kept shooting me down then I realised it’s from A-A missiles without the <m>! Great fix

[Mav-jp]

@spotdott said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

Thank you, I started Bear trap and don’t know why SA-10s kept shooting me down then I realised it’s from A-A missiles without the <m>! Great fix

??? Sa10 missiles will never trigger the <m>

[oakdesign]

@mav-jp yes but due to the fact that he got shot down without a <M> if you don’t review acmi one might assume it must/might have been a SA-10 Even so it was a AIM-120 or AA-12

[Mav-jp]

@oakdesign said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

@mav-jp yes but due to the fact that he got shot down without a <M> if you don’t review acmi one might assume it must/might have been a SA-10 Even so it was a AIM-120 or AA-12

Bad understanding then

[SpbGoro]

@depapier said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

Hey everyone, as discussed on Falcon Lounge discord:
To fix the missing <M> on RWR . I’ve done this change for Balkans, Baltic, Iberia, Georgia, Israel, Israel 1980s, Mideast128

I checked. For the MidEast128 theater, the <M> on RWR works as before and does not require fixing.

In this theater, for ARH missiles in the dat files, the numbers of the seeker type and seeker version are directly registered. As in older versions of BMS.

[Mav-jp]

@spbgoro said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

@depapier said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

Hey everyone, as discussed on Falcon Lounge discord:
To fix the missing <M> on RWR . I’ve done this change for Balkans, Baltic, Iberia, Georgia, Israel, Israel 1980s, Mideast128

I checked. For the MidEast128 theater, the <M> on RWR works as before and does not require fixing.

In this theater, for ARH missiles in the dat files, the numbers of the seeker type and seeker version are directly registered. As in older versions of BMS.

I think you miss the point

Without this fix in the database , the <m> will show up no problem in more than 95% of the cases

The fix is solving the remaining 5%

The issue never popped up before 4.35 because the code has been changed in this area to solve other issues like the never disappearing <m> or the <m> showing up on RWr despite beeing our of the beam

[CAG]

Can´t get the fix programm to work. Any Solution please?

[oakdesign]

@RUSHER0600 any idea.

[RUSHER0600]

@cag Which version of Windows are you running? From what I’m reading that specific DLL was first included in windows 8.
You could try out fix suggestions like this one from the microsoft helpdesk.

Alternatively, install the Python interpreter and execute my source code directly, instead of using the compiled .exe.

[CAG]

Hello First i like to thank you for responding. I am on a “win7 64 bit system.”

[Jackal]

A little easy tip to apply when running the fix in Windows 10Pro at least : you can avoid the system’s protection after clicking on this executable’s Properties and then flagging this box.

Click on the Apply button and it’s made.
Hope this helps someone.

With best regards.

[CAG]

@rusher0600 Thank you!

[Orffen]

@cag Windows 7 is out of support with no security updates for almost 2 years

You might be able to run the python code directly like @RUSHER0600 suggested, but I’d consider upgrading to Windows 10.

[Khronik]

@orffen Or just edit the 3 lines in the file manually via notepad instead of spending 25x the time trying to reverse engineer the auto patcher.

[jstnj]

@khronik said in RWR <M> Fix for 4.35.3:

@orffen Or just edit the 3 lines in the file manually via notepad instead of spending 25x the time trying to reverse engineer the auto patcher.

or take 25x less and just upgrade to a non-deprecated operating system