@craab
If you have Big Sur you have intel inside your Mac?
You would have a better experience with FPS if you use Bootcamp to partition the drive, install Windows 10 (buy it OEM), and then install BMS. Boot from Windows.
I tested this 10 years ago so this is old knowledge. My understanding is that emulation or running windows in an emulator app off of a windows partition is still slower than booting into Windows.
If you know all this already, my apologies. Have fun with Wine!
Latest posts made by Vapor
-
RE: Falcon BMS 4.3.7 / Wine / MacOS Big Sur
-
RE: BMS Training Progress Tracker
@Munster
I will download and take a look. It’s been years since I simmed and hoping to start BMS back up this summer, so this will be helpful. Thx -
RE: Save Air Start Cockpit Settings
Apologies for the long reply. Maybe 2 possibilities if you are willing to put in the time and effort:
1) Training Scripts that configure the cockpit setup in a Training Mission or Tactical Engagement, but not in a Campaign (Scripts were designed to be an automated training system). The BMS Technical Manual will explain. You can script any key file callback and more.
Typical script command:
//Show Frame Rate
SimCommand OTWToggleFrameRate- free
- script using a text editor
- script key file callbacks such as OTWToggleFrameRate
- Any computer programming or scripting experience will make this task much easier
- if you have created your own key file before, this will take minimal investment of time
- if haven’t created a key file before, there will be some days of learning and testing but you can get it to work.
- can’t be done in a campaign
- maybe a week or more of time to script, hours if programming experience?
Resources:
BMS-Technical-Manual.pdf in Docs folder
some example scripts in Falcon BMS/Data/Campaign/2) Voice Attack or similar voice control software. For example, This allows you to say “Set Up Cockpit” and it will configure the cockpit according to your scripting.
Also, there is a free plugin for Voice Attack which you don’t have to script and will set up what you need.- free test version limited to 20 commands
- simple environment to script in
- other users have provided profiles which means modifying but not starting from scratch
- Any computer programming or scripting experience will mean you will get the exact results you want
++ use in all games and software or to control your PC, not limited to BMS
- $10 (U.S. dollars) for unlimited version of Voice Attack
- headset or microphone a must
- an hour or two to train the PC to recognize your voice
- maybe a week or more of time to script from scratch?
Resources:
Voice Attack https://voiceattack.com/Default.aspxJanJan VoiceAttack Plugin https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?39526-Voice-Attack-plugin-for-falcon-BMS
Profiles for Voice Attack (you will have to modify):
AVCS4 Immersive Voice Control Radios for VoiceAttack
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?37442-AVCS4-Immersive-Voice-Control-Radios-for-VoiceAttack&highlight=AVCS4+Voice+ControlUOAF Advanced VoiceAttack Profile
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?36357-UOAF-Advanced-VoiceAttack-Profile-Including-Ownship-Callsigns&highlight=UOAF+Advanced+VoiceAttack+Profilelukrop’s Voice Attack Profile
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?35758-lukrop-s-Voice-Attack-Profile&highlight=lukrop+voiceFish’s Voice Attack
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?36760-Fish-s-Voice-Attack-for-BMS-434etc…
Hope this helps.
-
RE: Briefing.txt file messed up on non windows pc
No issues here. I can open it in Quick Look in the Finder, Text Edit, Pages, Libre Office, and the free version of BBedit. I am running MacOS 10.14. Try downloading BBedit (Free version is great). If you are running an older system try TextWrangler, free also.
-
RE: AI not responding & emergency landing.
@viperboy:
…
1. asked AI element to attack AAA at strike base with AGM65 D. they didn’t bother to release even a single missile.
2. to my surprise number 3 & 4 returned to base without permission or my knowledge. while I was still in target area
…I tested behavior of AI Air to Ground behavior to see what they did. In a BMS 4.33 modified campaign that reduced the number of ground and air units to a minimum. The target was a radar suppressed SA-2 site attacked by a package where different munitions were changed out to test the effects. I was an escort flight, observing the AI flight close enough to keep watch (keeping them in my 3D bubble).
Not consistently, but every so often, they would overfly the target without weapon release then RTB. Once in a while, they would enter engagement range, loiter, then RTB. At least once, the AI departed to about 20 nm, turned around and re-engaged.
Maddening because this is logical behavior if I only knew the programming and what triggered what behavior. I tried everything I could think of to figure out how AI engaged. I failed.
It is possible that this simulates hung armament, equipment failure, or something else. It could be how I set the flights up or some other erroneous choice I made. Some pilots just leave their AI in their hangers at base and don’t bother to take them along. But I like what drtbkj said,
“We need to work with the concept that our BMS AI can’t do everything, and find work-arounds. The AI can’t/won’t do a “Slapshot, SA-2, bearing xxx”, where they just fire a HARM to suppress the threat. So, I try to give them something they can work with. It’s actually more fun then them just lobbing HARM’s from 40 miles. While they do their thing you can bracket the target, timing off their moves.” Link:
(AI-not-following-attack-instructions…) -
RE: UI text is very hard to read
Depending on your monitor: Settings > Display > Text Scaling could help.
-
RE: Is it the new TGP?
This happened to me in a TE, 2 x KF16-C-32s (ROK) against 2 x MiG-29As, while changing Radar azimuth. Only happened once. I believe I switched from MRM Override Mode to A-G Master Mode and back to get my scope back.
-
RE: Ministick on X-56 use?
When the X-56 came out, Logitech bought Saitek who is the original designer/manufacturer. Look in the Saitek forum, you may find help there. Snelle (and others), I believe, created a BMS DX profile, fix for the mini-stick, and advice on the slider for the X-56. I must stand and salute Snelle for helping a grunt with his X-55 out of HOTAS hell.
There is a lot of people to salute around here, isn’t there? Good Luck.
-
RE: Campaign freeze whenever I get to the IP.
Get this freeze only with KTO TigerSpirit. So made a complet new Install with no result.
I complete over 30 Mission`s in Rolling Fire without any problem but when changing to Tiger Spirit in 3d the Sim suddenly is freezing and i can leave BMS only with task manager without any crash log in my User folder.
I don´t use any mods.Since most flyers are not having this frustrating issue, then, since RF campaign works like it should and TS does not, then hardware not likely. Possibly, a persistent, corrupted file. So uninstall BMS completely using the BMS installer (not Windows), quit to clear temp files, re-start the installer, re-install BMS. Do not add in any “old” files like the pilot logbook or old keyfile. Use a default keyfile and create your joystick/HOTAS configuration. Use the bare minimum for testing (no extra hardware, i.e. screens; No saved campaigns, No extra software, i.e. Mission Commander, etc.). Test Tiger Spirit and it should work. If it fails, then you need to provide more data. If it works, then add files, like your pilot logbook, until you find what’s messing it up.
You might already know all this stuff (you know about crash logs ) So I apologize, but avoiding this hassle could take longer in the end (unfortunately, my experience.)
-
RE: Electronic Flight Bag
Another is adding 2 simple pages to an open PDF is nothing like a sim software and by no means should bring a powerful PC to its knees including extensive cleaning.
I am not implying anything but sharing my own experience with something that never took place with s rather stable computer.One possibility is that you did nothing that caused the issue nor did the PDF authors. PDFs are not simple as there are different versions from different years, there are different flavors, there are different properties that can be included or not, Adobe PDFs are not exactly the same as Microsoft PDFs are not exactly the same as Apple PDFs are not exactly the same as specialized PDF software documents (like PDF Architect).
Editing a PDF (or any complex document) that becomes corrupted and crashes the editing app could mess with your computer. Just my experience. Luckily this is rare, but it has happened to me and others as well. What a pain.
Try different editing software. The best option is to obtain the document in its original format and edit that. Both strategies have worked for me.