Posts made by ALAS
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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. -
RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
But Arty you are explaining my the ABC…All fair, I dont think I have to demonstrate my experience in a forum. Again, IMO one single BSOD is not a reason to be worried, but who am I.
Rob in my country there is a saying: One medic will heal you, two will kill you. And is true so I quit.
Good luck
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
BTW, when I first posted, we cross-posted, so I saw your reply after my post, was not my intention to step on you
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Arty:
He has not requested help for solving the BSOD, but for solving BMS not starting.
A single BSOD is not enough to diagnose a hardware problem, but it should be taken into account, that what I put my final note on the post.In his post he states that his computer and other applications are operating normally, only BMS is showing problems
It is very obvious that if BMS is not starting, something was corrupted, during a file I/O operation. I bet for .dsp but I could be wrong, but as deleting the .dsp is very simple, and wont cause any harm, because it will be rebuilt in the next BMS start, I recommend to do that.
I agree with you that he has to find the source of the problems, but I disagree that you have to be worried for a single BSOD. Why? because as you know, correctly troubleshooting a BSOD is a long process. Its the repetition of the BSOD that would rise a warning in me to start that long process, specially with anyone’s computer that I don¡t have access to.
So in summary my approach is: try to repair Falcon, and if the BSOD does not repeat, do not worry about it.
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RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Why Arty? this has solve for me similar problems in the past.
I am wondering if his .dsp got corrupted when he had the BSOD… -
RE: Blue Screen of Death now Falcon BMS won't run
Try one thing Rob
In config folder, delete display.dsp, BMS will rebuild it.
See if that solves your problem. Then go to setup and configure again your screen.Good luck.
Note: this will not solve the BSOD. If it is only one instance of BSOD, ok. But if you get more BSOD you will have to find and solve the main problem.
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RE: Houston we have a problem…..........
I’ve seen this before…. nice to have this feature in BMS !!!
You guyz awezome!
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RE: Switched (back) from ATI to Nvidia - How do you deal with the stutters?
Congratulations for your new 780, I think it will give you a lot of satisfaction, specially if it is EVGA (very good quality assembly)
I can only speak for Nvidia 780, but I cannot give you comparison with ATI.
I am assuming you have experience but if you need clarification please ask. Also I am giving you the values by heart, if you need me to be more precise just tell me so.
With stock BMS the flight with the 780 should be totally smooth for you, even in campaign, or the ramp start mission.
Adding some detailed models will increase the burden, but you should still sense fluid flight.Recently I did a new install and start having what you described.
I had stutters in ramp start mission (flying around the base) if I looked left or right.
So I started to isolate the problem and here you a a guide of the steps that I did to get rid of the problem.- Disable AA both in BMS and in nvidia control panel. (asa side note I recommend you nvidia inspector as a better alternative to nvidia control panel)
- Disabled vsync and anisotropic filtering too.
- Checked the stutters were gone.
- Enabled SMAA in Sweet FX. Check. Image ok, but shimmering in airbases and distant objects.
- Added AA (override mode) in nvidia inspector, step by step (2x, 4x, 8QX…) until got rid of shimmering while free of stutters. (You will have to find the exact compromise that suits you).
- Added anisotropic filtering 16x in nvidia inspector. Check.
- Configure the rest of parameters: Negative load bias (Clamp), texture optimization (prefer performance), trilinear filtering off. Basically these 3 are the most important ones.
- Finally Vsync: Can you live with screen tearing? leave it disabled; no? enable it. Do it in nvidia inspector (force on)
I trust more my eyes than the FPS counter, but as a rough orientation, you should be having constant 80 FPS minimum with Vsync disabled. Of course if you enable it, it will be 60 FPS constant. The minimum, should 35 FPS in certain situations (that you should not notice unless you are looking at the FPS counter)
My last advice: get rid of the FPS counter.
Finally I have to add that I am over 40, so I’ve got natural AA in my eyes, that makes me see sims and women more beautiful than they probably are
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RE: Beta Release: GPT (cockpit texture extraction, remote cockpit control, shm mirror)
Ok. Command line parameters added to the todo list. I should be able to get them working with gpt.
Yes you can run the displaysreceiver on the same machine as the game.Can you give me an example of command line parameters that BMS supports, so I can test that my fix works?
The ones that I know are -window and -ef.
With -ef you can enable “Eye Fly”, which is a free cam that will let you move inside Falcon 3D. But you need to configure a key for that before. In defaults key mapping, I reckon is Ctrl + i
Thanks for your support.
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RE: All your BMS 4.32 screenshots!
Thanks Shadowblade.
Some game engines requiere the injector file installed to a subfolder, usually “bin” or “bin32”) for it to work properly.
This is what is called a “split install”:
Split install
Some games (mostly the ones using the Unreal Engine) needs to have a split install of SweetFX, where some files are put into the bin or bin32 subfolder
The files to put in the subfolder are: d3d9.dll , dxgi.dll and injector.iniI can confirm that this happens for BMS Falcon, and in my system it will run ok, the presets and shaders.
If a system is crashing with Sweet FX, that can happen for a variety of reasons. Like wrong folder; What OS (Wiin8 ?); have the system installed the Microsoft update KB2670848?