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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Hi there Rob:
I see you are taking the things with patience and this is a very good recipe for a final success.
I am very confident that you will solve the problem once you check the sound card. The good thing of your BSOD is 1) that is clearly pointing at the soundcard and 2) that the BSOD can be reproduced very easily. (In your detailed reports you have said that it happens when comitting to a furball). That is a good sign that it may be software related.
I have one new question for you:
on the screen to set up a 1v1 dogfight furball, when I clicked commit I got the BSOD
This has always been the case, or it worked before and started happening suddenly one day?
Best regards
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Thanks so much!! Unfortunately, my computer is already at the dealer (me! I bought the components from Newegg based upon reviews for reliability and past experience with hardware), but hopefully it will be a software problem. I am comfortable building the computer from a hardware standpoint and selecting stable reliable components to help along those lines, but the software side is not my cup of tea. I’ve built my last 4 computers since I just can’t seem to find what I want in a complete package. So far, it’s been worthwhile as they have been stable and reliable, the last one going 8 years before this one.
I did disable my onboard sound via the BIOS, but a good check for sure!
LOL!! Yep, room temperature is 65-68F! I like the heat, but >150F would be a bit tough on me! Thanks for that….I needed a good chuckle.
All my best,
RobHi Rob, if you are the “dealer” that’s even better. It is good to know that you are comfortable opening the computer’s case.
And you still have warranty from newegg in case (I hope not) you have to RMA anything.
In my last post I forgot to mention that I would put the eVGA last in the list. THese are very good cards and eVGA a very good quality assembler. If the card is factory OCed, the card is fine at these settings.
So, as Dr. Arty said, start with the audio card checks. BTW, one easy test is to remove the sound card and see what happens. And remember, only 1 step at a time.
Good luck and report any doubt.
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Yes, it is. I once spent a week trying to trouble shoot a particleSystem issue, only to find out that the game won’t start up if it can’t detect a legitimate audio device to use. I found an old pair of headphones and plugged them in (the system in question was my dedicated gaming server) and never had a problem again. But it was a silly error for the fix that I had to employ.
Essentially it was Black Screening and CTDing everytime I started up Falcon.
The quirks of playing an older game, I suppose.
I confirm I also had this problem in a dedicated server, and got solved as you say, probably I read the fix from you. So thanks!
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Always glad to try to help a fellow falconeer.
Rob one thing caught inmediately my attention. Your computer is one month old. Thats good news, becasue if we dont find an easy fix, you can always have your computer returned to your dealer for thoroughly checks.
Also dont be surprised that the audio is, for the 2nd time, a source of problems. They often are. And your MB *which is good BTW} has an onboard chip sound, Realtek ALC892 8 .
Can you check if you have the onboard sound disabled_Cheers!
PS:yout temps seems pretty good, (provided that the 65-68 degrees in your room are Farenheit (J/K) )
The fact that the BSOD only happens with BMS is not conclussive, bit it gives clues. Falcon is very demanding on resources. During the troubleshooting, we will test your system CPU, RAM, etc with dedicated tests for this purpose. -
RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Hi Rob:
As you are getting more BSOD, we are now certain that your computer has a problem, that we have to locate and fix.
Deleting .dsp is curing the symptoms, but not the disease, so sadly in this case this solution is not valid.The BSOD could be related to many, many causes, some are software related (drivers, trojan-virus…) and some are hardware related. Hardware ones does not necesarily mean a faulty hardware, could be a failure due to bad bios settings in the best case, up to a phisic hardware failure in the worst.
The BSOD troubleshooting is a relatively difficult process, and if you haven’t troubleshooted one before,you’d better by helped in that process that attempting to fix it on your own. On the other hand, you could learn a lot by trying to do it yourself, but it will cost time.
As every step has to be tested thoroughly, this takes a lot of time. Change something, wait for BSOD to appear, change again… etc
I am sure Arty will come up with a step by step guide (at he says, one step at a time). I will be glad to team up with him to help you out.
In the meantime, if you make for us a list of all the recent things that you remember you made… did you make any hardware changes? did you change bios settings? did you install software? what about your antivirus and windows updates?.. etc
Have you Overclocked your PC?
Tell us about the temperature in the room where the PC is… do you know how to check your CPU, GPU and Motherboard temps?
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RE: Key Command Help
Hi ASharpe: I’d recommend you to see this topic https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?10821-Keyfile-editor-Alpha-Release!
Directly From Key Editor “SimEWSModeByp : Refers to the countermeasures mode knob on the CMDS panel. This command places the knob in the BYP (BYPASS) position. This mode allows the pilot to release one chaff and one flare for each action on the CMS forward. It is a backup mode used when the EWS fails. (new BMS4.0)”
For example, I have assigned it to Shift+ctrl+atl+B and I get
// Created 28/08/2014 1:35:50 in Keyfile editor.
SimEWSModeByp -1 0 0X30 7 0X0 0 1 “SimEWSModeByp”Hope it helps
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RE: Runways Taxiways High Resolution Textures
I downloaded both just in case, but only use the hires with excellent performance.
For my squad mates I will give them the option to install both in a jsgme package, so they can decide what suits them best.