What is blocking my view on the right side? How can I move it?
Isnt it the arm rest that blocks your view of the air conditioning panel? think thats what you mean. Dont think you can move it but i find the air con knob is under that and i just hover my mouse cursor over it till it turns green then left click once so my air con is in norm, preventing the sensors from overheating.
SA-15 is very dangerous when you fly low enough to be in its engagement range. It is more dangerous in the current version of BMS than it was in the past.
Yea sa-15’s are lethal think i was flying at about 15k when i got whacked by one. Within seconds of getting a launch warning i was toast.
If you mode select VIP, the steerpoint will be named " IP" .
If you mode select VRP, your target steerpoint will be named “TGT”.
BTW BlueWolf is spot on. IP is best placed at 15-20 nm from the target.
I just did as you said and it didnt work. Tried it in the LGB training mission where steer 6 is the IP and steer 7 is the target and after mode selecting VIP and VRP, both still display STPT 6 and STPT 7 on the DED…something i missed?
BMS is obviously NOT a “jump in the cockpit and shoot things” game. To me that’s the beauty of it. Like many of us I have a lot of years in F4AF and Jane’s f/a-18. I’d go through phases where I’d do one, then the other. A couple of years ago I discovered FSX Super Bug and liked the cockpit interaction but was not really “fed” by the game. Shooting airliners and bombing LAX got old.
Then I found BMS, and as they say the rest is history.
Some people express interest in DCS or some such, I never feel interest in doing so. I have never been so satisfied with a sim as this, and it’s not just the flying. There are nights where I won’t even fly. I’ll just pull out a manual and study something. My Reading Room, aka bathroom, looks like a BMS reference library.:p
So, Methos, my answer to your question is to decide if you have the desire “for more”. If you do, then this is the place, and the journey counts more then the destination.
Agree with what yourself and others are saying. I too spent a good part of last night not playing Falcon but reading the Dash 1 and Dash 34 manuals. In doing so i learned more about the AMRAAM DLZ, A/M/F poles, DMC and the two types of active guidance that an AMRAAM’s seeker has HPRF and MPRF. Also about FCR contacts. Also someone kindly told me how i have the IP and TGT steerpoints show on the DED as IP and TGT. Still so much to learn especially in 4.33 compared to 4.32.
I have a question on steerpoint names on the DED. For example i’ve seen videos where the IP is actually called IP rather than just STPT on the DED when selecting that steerpoint. Also for the target steerpoint(s) in this video i watched it has TGT on the DED…how can i make my DED display these rather than every steerpoint just called STPT on the DED?
As an aid to target acquisition
When would you use it? for myself i dont see the point in using it (pardon the pun) seeing as you have the laser which is at the center of your cross hairs on your TGP. Is it used to just get coordinates for a target which can be passed on to your wingman/flight? its just that too can be done with the laser on the TGP.
I don’t have unlimited funds, so I had to make my best researched choice based on price/performance of both the CPU and the graphics card. I get ~50-60fps 90% of the time with my configuration. More importantly, I never have periods of stutteringly slow performance, so I’m happy.
Well you have doubled the RAM i have, whats’ your graphics card?
Yea thought as much. All i’ll have running from now on when playing Falcon is FaceTrackNoIR. As well as Google Chrome at times, i also more often than not have steam running so will close that too.
Just noticed SoBad, you have the exact same CPU as myself. What do you think of it?
Hello,guy,maybe you can try to change the setting to “0” see the sample here
set g_bExportRTTTextures 0 in Falcon BMS.cfg
Well i’m not sure what it was before, but i played the same TE again and the FPS was fine…weird. The only thing that changed was i closed all windows i had open for google chrome. But thanks for that, something i could try in future if i start getting a bad hit on my FPS regularly.