A year later my FFB was gone again. Was blaming my recent Win10 update to 2004 version and planning to reinstall BMS all over again, but the solution turned out to be simple - change theater in the Alternative Launcher. Switched from Korea to Israel - bam, FFB is working! Switched back to Korea - now it had working FFB as well.
Spent half an hour prior to that trying rebooting PC, plugging- unplugging the USB cables, launching other sims with FFB (they were all working fine)… Nothing helped until I tried changing theaters. Hope this will help someone someday
Latest posts made by Borsch
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RE: No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
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RE: No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
@FoxBMS:
I have to confirm that FFB in BMS works fine. I just wonder if someone has some manual or advices how to config feedback.ini in user\config directory. Some years ago with no clue how it works i edited this config
by try -> fail method and after few days it brought some fruits and i made some effect work except concrete strip effect
( what is this for ?).Concrete strip effect is the rumble from landing/rolling down the runway - as runways are strips of concrete I guess:)
Please share if you manage to get some more effects working. Particularly the rumble from bomb detaching, although cannon FFB would be cool too.
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RE: No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
+1^ I just checked my settings. Force Feedback NOT checked. My MS FFB2 works fine.
Yep, all is finally working here as well - Alternative Launcher and all. Still no idea what went wrong and how I manage to waste at least two hours on what was a simple reinstall in the end. Massive thanks for your kind help, without your replies i would have given up on the 4.34 version with 100% likelihood!
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RE: No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
I DO have centering forces.
Wow! Many thanks for the reply! plot thickens then
BMS version 4.34 U4? Do you use the Alternative Launcher to set up your controls by any chance? I did as I need shift feature to compensate for the lack of buttons on my MSFFB2+CH Pro Throttle USB setup. I guess I’ll do another install and see what happens.
Thank you for letting me know, I gave up on 4.34 because of this, but will persevere now.
EDIT: clean reinstall of 4.34 U4 with prior deletion of all registry traces, no Alternative Launcher and… I HAVE FFB! Yaaay
I’m off to experiment with the alternative launcher, but super happy that BMS still has FFB.
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RE: Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
Now I get the dreaded “Could not find FalconBMS Installed” with freshly installed 4.33 U1. I’ve deleted the 4.34 registry entry, freshly reinstalled the 4.33 U1, lauchned the game once (edited joystick axis and flew in 3d for a minute)… Regedit sows Falcon BMS 4.333 U1 as the lone entry under WOW6432Node>Benchmark Sims. The installed folder is E:\Progs\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1
Googling found me this, but I can’t quite make sens of it and in any case my BMS folder name matches the installed version:
1 year ago
Could you let me know your FalconBMS install directory name?level 2
ohyeah2389
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1 year ago
A:\Alt Progam Files\Falcon BMS 4.33
Launcher is installed in A:\Alt Progam Files\Falcon BMS 4.33\Bin\x86
(Yes, I know I spelled Program wrong)
I suspect it could have something to do with the spaces in the name of the directory? Also, thanks for the quick response!level 3
chihirobelmo
35thVFW
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1 year ago
Are you installing BMS 4.33U1 not 4.33.0 right? Alt Launcher look for its install directory name and defines which version of BMS is installed. BMS 4.33 and BMS 4.33 U1 is considered different software because of separate registry. Alt Launcher look for 4.33.0 install instead of 4.33U1 that might be a case.Solution would be:
Reinstall BMS install directory name as “Falcon BMS 4.33 U1” or
Launch Alt Launcher with command line "/bms “4.33.1"”
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ohyeah2389
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1 year ago
Thanks! Adding /bms 4.33.1 to the shortcut fixed it.
I named the folder “Falcon BMS 4.33” without the U1 just because I thought it sounded weird. I had no idea that it used that to check the version.Please help!
EDIT: clean reinstall of 4.34 U4 with prior deletion of all registry traces, launch the game - yay, FFB works! Alternative Launcher install and… yay FFB still works! No idea what is going on with the 4.33, I am sticking with the 4.34 now.
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RE: Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
Do not enable Force feedbck in 4.34 or you might encounter CTD.
4.33 works fine with FFB, so I will stick with it for now.
Wondering about the second question though. I’ve reinstalled 4.33 U4 and its Alternative Launcher, but the latter still starts my 4.34 version that is in a different folder. How do I point the AL to my 4.33 install?
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RE: No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
For 4.34 recommended to turn of Force Feedback completely
Could you post a link to this? Massive shame if that is the case as FFB was was perfectly adequate in all the past years of Falcon and Falcon BMS.
It’s my only stick as FFB is fantastic in Il2:1946, Rise of Flight, IL2:Cliffs, DCS and IL2:Stalingrad. Basically the only flying game that does not support FFB is Warthunder - which I do not ever play partly for that reason. Would be a shame if BMS made an unlikely couple with Warthunder in that regard
@mj3437:+1^ I just checked my settings. Force Feedback NOT checked. My MS FFB2 works fine.
It does work fine in all respects, but the stick is completely loose and flacid :), there is no centering force or anything. Do you fly with it like that or are you saying you do have centering forces?
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No joystick force feedback in 4.34.U4
Joysick force feedback is worink in 4.33.U4, but is completely absent from the latest 4.34.U4. Can’t play with my MS FFB2
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RE: Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
Many thanks for this brilliant software!
Two questions:
1. How to enable joysick force feedback (FFB) in BMS 4.34 U4?
2. How to use alternative launcher for several different BMS installs? At the moment my 4.33U1 alternative launcher located in 4.33U1 folder starts the 4.34U4 version somehow. -
RE: Microsoft MSFF2 thread
Ok, did them myself (what a pain that was)
Hat- cursor
1 - gun
3- pickle
4 - SRMOverride (dogfight mode, press TMS up to enable radar here)
5 - radar up
6 - radar down
7 - flares
8- SHIFT :hehe:
8+hat - TMS
8+3 - uncage
8+5/6 - TGP Sniper zoom in/out
8+1 wheel brakesKeyboard
U,H,J,K - DMS (DCS style ;))
L - wheel brakesThe rest are default for now.
If anyone needs the file I’ve uploaded it here:
https://app.box.com/s/qtk6qj6jxs2xsfihmkuoReminder: editing controls within the game will break this file, break the SHIFt assignment and mess up the list structure. So edit with notepad+ and/or keyfile editor : https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?10821-Keyfile-editor-Alpha-Release