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Glad we could help! Good luck with your setup and re-familiarization! See you around!

Go to BMS forums - first read this: https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?6670-PLEASE-READ-THIS-BEFORE-MODDING-BMS Then search the forums here for the information you need (or ask around): https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?36-Community-MODs-WIP

Can we assume that you've tried a test in BMS with all the graphics settings as low as possible to see if that increases the FPS? If it doesn't, it would be an indicator that something is not set correctly somewhere or that there is a literal fault causing an inability to display and run that game correctly. Double check your GFX card's settings, too, and be sure you're not trying to push something crazy like 8x Anti Aliasing or 16x Anisotropic filtering or something while trying to get more FPS in testing. Need to get some sort of baseline to see where your computer is hanging up, because it should get low FPS if there was an issue, not pinned down to 1 FPS. That sounds like the game is not doing something right. Also, re. uninstalling, perhaps you may need to be sure everything uninstalled completely, or maybe you did so before reinstalling? That would be important to be sure the fault doesn't carry over. Lastly, I'd go through the BMS Launcher, select the Configuration option, and go through those line by line, ensuring any hardware options are set correctly for your system and that any heavy performance options are disabled for the remainder of testing. This one is a real head scratcher, but I'd advise you to keep at it, trying different things, it could be something obvious staring us in the face, or something less so, but there is a solution to every problem if you keep working at it.

Okay, so if other games are running just fine right now and BMS is not, and if you have reviewed your in-game graphics settings and they are correct, let's try the DX9 file thing... Go to the programs folder the contains your BMS installation (your Program Files\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1\User\Config) and delete the file: dx9display.dsp Start up BMS and go to your setup and double check that GFX settings are correct, then go to Instant Action for a quick test. Let us know if it worked. Next step (AFAIK) would be to backup your logbook and user files, and reinstall BMS. I hope that won't be needed, but in the end might be faster than any further bug hunts.

Check out this guide, it shows how to access the in-game controls of Falcon BMS through DirectX key input: http://www.blu3wolf.com/falconbms/Kolbe/Falcon BMS Keyfile Manual.pdf I believe that is where you will find your answers. If this is not what you want, please rephrase your question and we will try to help. Best wishes and good luck!

Could be a few things causing that issue... Have you changed any hardware during your absence from playing BMS? What version did you leave on (did you have to update when coming back?) I just got back into it myself, reinstalled after backing up my files, configs... but there could be so many simple things causing an issue that it might be hard to run through one at a time back and forth in a forum. Do you have other games installed? I ask because it would be great to check that any game will run correctly on your monitor at that resolution, and decent FPS -- that would make BMS the problem to narrow it down. Not sure if this could be an issue with the DX9 file in the BMS config folders, it's been awhile and I'm rusty in places. That could be a thing to google, wish I could remember. You did the right thing with the Disable full screen optimizations. Let's just be sure the GFX card is working and that some game will play, and move forward from there.

Sorry for the late reply -- been away all day. Trying to get back into all this, but it's slow going. RE. Server -- had crashed to desktop; restarted to last autosave. I'm a little rusty in places, but I think it's all fired up and working again. Thanks for the report!

I'll be there, would love to do some video recording, so I'll be a redundant rifleman in some big squad on the front lines or w/e Thanks TEDF!

Yea, ya gotta do the updates if you reinstall, but you can select them all and install all of them at once.

I've removed it from the starter maps rotations, and added it to the disabled maps list until it gets fixed or whatever. Thanks for the report!

A private pilot once told me that spending time flying a small engine plane is 90% boredom and 10% sheer terror. From the looks of that full size 757 jet airliner landing at Toncontin, that statement can at times be universal. If you want a good laugh, check out AirForceProud on YouTube - his best vids are him doing VATSIM like ATC in general public FSX (Steam Edition) flight sim servers.

Check your messages, I've given you Admin access so you can take care of these things. Read the wiki for all the things you can do with it. Be a good admin and be fair, but ban assholes like Eric and Finn as fast as you can! You already have TCAdmin so you can restart or update the server if needed. We will have to wait for Zadra to do his job to fix save progress. I am unsure how to, and I know he was just waiting for the next crash/restart to apply a fix. I'd message him but I'm confident he will fix it as soon as the next time he comes online here. P.S. Zadra uses a text translator, does not read or speak English - just FYI to avoid any confusion

Very cool! I wish I could afford it! My Ma has 100 hours in a Cessna from back in the 1970's when she was a legal secretary for Lockheed, did a little schooling with her employee discount. I've gone through Private Pilot certification in MS Flight Simulator several times over the years, I'd be ecstatic to do it IRL. Totally jealous of you, mate!

FTR, Windows 10 crashes or hangs up plenty - you've just been lucky. In Windows 7 (using PC for same shit I do now) I used to have up times of 3+ months. Now I'm lucky to get through a month without something getting porked and having to restart, let alone the Windows crashes making it difficult to test the stability of, say, an overclock. Windows 10 doesn't fight shit regarding issues that want to crash a computer, regardless of whether it was due to hardware, software, firmware, shareware, or binary chlamydia. Also, Windows Restore Point feature is for rolling back recent changes to the operating system environment. It can and should be used before every new program installation and every Windows Update, and make custom names that you can recognize like "before AOMEI installation" or "before Oct2018 WinUpdate". Windows Restore Point is not a backup disk image creator as you suggest, and therefore you are right when you say that your AOMEI Backuper is better than Windows Restore Point at restoring files from a hard drive backup source. Windows Backup and Restore is a built in feature complete suite of functions that can create a system repair disc, create a system image, restore all users' files, select another backup to restore files from, and run tasks on a schedule for maximum protection. In Windows 10, the feature that does what your AOMEI Backuper does is called "Create a system image", and it's found at the link Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore (Windows 7) Using a third party software for file system backup and restoration is a personal preference, but I will say that it is a bit redundant. And the way you say "I don't like doubts" infers that you don't trust Windows to perform these tasks, so you use this third party software AOMEI. Let me ask you this: why do you trust Microsoft to be the backbone of your entire file system, to be your Operating system, yet you don't trust the tools it comes with? Is it just for the user interface that AOMEI provides? Because Windows backup is perfectly fine, works very well, and can be depended upon just as much as any backup. I've never heard of AOMEI myself, I've been around the block a few times, but I had to look it up. I'm familiar with Acronis, NovaBackup, SpiderOak, Carbonite, Dropbox, etc. but I gotta say I was not surprised when I found AOMEI in a Top 10 Free Backup Software advertisement that looked like an actual article about backup softwares. I'm sure they are fine, but all things not being equal, there's no reason to recommend to someone that they backup their computer for peace of mind, and by the way, use this AOMEI software to do it. Windows can do all of this and if you can trust it to manage your files 24/7, you can trust it to create your disc image backup files, too. *Don't be confused by the "(Windows 7)" in the title, it was stupid of them to leave that there and is maybe just to delineate between a replacement system that is perhaps coming in the future, who knows. It works for all systems, and is the best solution for making a Windows OS installation repair disk and a System Image disk, both together being the entirety of your C: drive and OS. Personally, I use 2 separate Class 10 USB flash drives (16GB and 256GB respectively) and while I have copies of these on external hard drives, I trust that these two USB's have everything I need to restore my system. These drives are not in the same building as the PC in case of fire. I use RAID-0 across 2 Samsung EVO 120GB SSD's, the M.2/NVMe drives being brand new and too expensive when I built this, and so I could literally lose everything in the blink of an eye (300ms). I run a backup schedule to internal HDD's that are not the C: drive, and I run the System Image creator monthly. I already paid nearly $300 for Windows 10, I'm certainly not going to pay some other company for a tool that is included in Win10, and DEFINITELY would not install any redundant "freeware" onto my system unless there is no other alternative. But again, third party software tools can be a personal preference, for say, the UI, or other features. Still, Win10 can do it all already, was my point.

Yes, most certainly can be the fans on the graphics card failing. Assuming you've already cleaned off all the dust bunnies, you can go so far (if you want) as to completely remove the fan and heatsink assembly, clean off all the dust and any thermal paste, replace the fans if possible, reapply thermal compound and reassemble the whole lot. Other option is to buy a new card when that one finally overheats. Rattling from fans is a sign of unbalancing due to uneven residue buildup and/or failing brushless motor. Teardown and deep cleaning *may* solve that, otherwise the alternative is throwing money at the problem with a new GFX card and it's not a good time to buy. PC Case fans can always be replaced, but GFX card fans can sometimes be proprietary or molded into fixed positions and therefore irreplaceable (for now). I assume in 15-25 years time, 3D printing at home will allow for a number of plastic proprietary pieces to be remade and replaced when normally this is the death of even fully working devices ... snap off one plastic tab in the wrong spot and things become bricks. Functional bricks, but bricked nonetheless. Also, don't consider the 1060.... 1070FTW all the way. Check the reviews, watch some benchmarks on YT, check the benchmarking websites, etc. Even on a budget, it's better to wait and save up the extra $70-150. Price per Performance is a factor, and it's worth it to consider in this case. It will last for 3 years at least -- consider that price over time and it's a GFX card that costs about $10.14 per month to own, and every month after 3 years lowers that cost. I've had my ~$350 GFX card for over 3 years now, and it's still running strong. A good investment. Expensive, but good. Final note, now that you know, don't get XFX, or rather, get the card brand/version that other enthusiast PC gamers are using based on benchmark tests and demonstrations. Also never buy the reference card (the card built by nVidia, branded nVidia) - third party card makers have much better cooling solutions so they push performance and achieve better clock speeds every time. MSI and EVGA are often the front-runners, with Zotac making some headlines, too. I'll stick with EVGA myself (SC or FTW depending on which tests better) due to their "silent under load" ACX2+ cooling and ability to keep the card at 60 C, and I'll likely buy EVGA for my next GTX/RTX card depending on reviews at the time. It goes without saying but I'll say it anyway for the uninitiated readers that happen upon this thread in the future; remember that the best benchmarks are from the game, and games you actually will use the card for. Not gonna find any PR examples, but several racing games make it into many of the benchmark tests on YT and elsewhere.

Damn kids "planking" in warzones.... Narcissistic even in death... I can hear it now, "(glurg) I'm dying joe... (glurg glurg) Quick - take my picture while I plank (*cough* *glurg*)... put it on the web..." (*blegh*)

Merry Christmas!

https://discord.gg/gHyVqC Waiting for Brakegamer to get me back as an admin for it, holiday weekend so maybe next week sometime. I'll download the actual program so I can start to help manage it. If it becomes active, we will need to manage settings and moderate the way we do with our website and TS3.

We do have a VG Discord at https://discordapp.com/channels/182939816541945856/182939816541945856 (does that link to it? or is that "my" link?)

Out of curiosity, does it have sub-profile settings to switch between different mic/speaker settings without going back into settings? I use those a lot in TS3 depending on which speakers/mic I'm using at the time, and also have defaults for different TS3's that I join so settings are saved different depending on the server I join. I suppose the desktop program version of Discord and maybe the cell phone app have those things? I've only ever used the website version...

What do you actually mean by this? I understand we don't all speak English as a first language, and I'm definitely not briefed on the integration concepts of discord, but I'm not sure what you mean by "add our discord to contacts". Like, do you mean with regards to user profiles on this website, the way we can add contact methods, or such? If Discord has a type of link to our discord profiles, it certainly could be made into a field for profiles on this website. (but on that topic, there are other website changes or upgrades that are higher up on the "to-do" list, and we only make major website changes once or twice every year or two, on an as needed basis) ....... I'm not a big fan of Discord as a Server Administrator because we already pay for a much higher quality VOIP software/server via TeamSpeak 3, and nobody has yet provided any reason (beyond chatting up memes and embeded YT videos) that Discord should be considered a competitor or improvement over TeamSpeak 3. I would love that about now Why use Discord? Why not use TS3? Also, are there plugins for TS3 that add functionality similar to Discord? w/e I don't have time to spend on investigating another VOIP option when I have a perfectly good one with great functions, and a ton of other stuff I'd rather do.