I have logged over 2000 hours in this sim. Played online every Saturday with friends in the US. I am located in Norway. Flew from 2008 to 2011. Still do some flights from time to time, but this sim eats up your time if you get hooked! Nothing beats the dynamic campaign. So immersive! I remember the feeling when I mastered aerial refueling!
I have logged over 3000 hours. I still play this sim every now and then. Even make videos every now and then. But like you said, it does get very time consuming.
It was EF2000 that taught me a lifetime of milsim training on refuelling! Try hitting a potbelly & drogue chute, then your a master. Incidentally owned F4 since release not AF that was a redo. On SimHQ
Manual for Falcon 4 Allied Force has 716 pages, but as far as I know it was only in pdf format - at least that is what I get. The original Falcon 4.0 had awesome spiral-bound manual though.
You get a nice 109 page manual in the box that goes through the training. I found my old Allied Force cd and my bought hitiles from the day burnt onto another cd,might give it a go since bms is a bit daunting for me.
I still have the Falcon 4 manual and cadets guide. I never played it much. Took too long to learn it. Then you if you stopped you had relearn it again.
Reminds me times when i was playing this on laptop and keyboard as i had no joystick. Then things came quickly, OF4.7, BMS 4.32. Now i am playing BMS 4.33U2 (i didn't installed U3 and 4), i have X-52PRO and trouchscreen for MFDs, ICP and most of cockpit switches so i am able to fly with almost no mouse. Not it gonna be 10 years since i first tried Falcon series and it is impressive how it evaluated from F4 to BMS 4.33.
You sir are a legend. I'm not sure if I had incomplete links or what but following a clean install then applying the patch as per the link kindly supplied by you I'm up and running!! :) :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Got to admit as much as I enjoy AF in 1920 x 1080 Falcon BMS 4.33 brings things right up to date. Can't help but be tempted to download............................ Thank you again kind sir
Oh my god, all the sounds everything bringing me back to when I saved up so much money to buy a joystick and bought this game when I was little. Little did I know that this game is fucking realistic as fuck and hard as fuck. I was only a little fella I just took off from the runway and shot at my teammates didn't know what else I was supposed to do.
Same. Was like 8 or 9 and between reading the manual for this game or the Bible... the Bible made more sense to me. Always played instant action to shoot down bombers and didn't know what else to do.
my dad wanted to join the air force but sadly couldn't so, my dad, brother and I were fascinated by fighter jets and he comes home with this game and loaded it up. Had no idea what to do and didn't know it was a war simulator. To us, it was just a cool fighter jet game that could play. We did so many crazy things on here. 16 years later as I'm watching this how to properly play this game, this is way too advanced! I understand how you feel haha
Thank you so much for the 1.13 patch! I got 4.0 to run on W11, but the external view had plates missing on the aircraft. The patch fixed that perfectly. Can't wait to try 4.33 next! Appreciate the pointers!
+Matsimus Gaming I feel your pain, I was refraining from buying one myself for several years, but I finally bought TIR4 for a half price of current TIR5 version and couldn't go back. I've tried DIY freetrack with my webcam, but the camera was so crappy it made the tracking laggy and unresponsive. Facetrack IR was also a simpler solution but with it's own cons. Track IR although a bit pricey, makes you forget about lag and lack of precision.
Hi, do any updates, overhauls exist for F4AF? There are times I think about dusting off F4, but, It sure would be nice to experience it modernized with new textures, support for current resolutions and vid cards etc. IF anything like that even exists.
I remember playing this as a really small kid. I didn't speak a word of English and would just click around the menus until I ended up in a plane shooting at stuff.
hilarious ending 😄 reminds me of many endings i encountered myself! thanks for uploading this...best memories! the time n effort put in this sim were definitely worth the knowledge gained. i remember successfully doing an aireal refuel! i felt like the world owes me smthg! so this is windows 10. i stopped at win 8 and i fear upgrading to 8.1 or 10 so things wud never work again. i hv the hotas cougar, saitek combat pedals and track ir 5. awesome setup. if u confirm cougar works on win 10 i ll do the upgrade! am terrified! 😁 always had a hard time moving from win xp to ultimate to watever version next...
Some older games work better on Win 10 than on Win 7 which I have installed on my laptop (Jane's Fighters Anthology for example). I can't say if your HOTAS will work in new OS as I have different setup though. If it's using USB port and no additional software it should work 99% fine. If you use dedicated software for it, it will depend on the software being compatible with new OS.
Ah I love this game, brings back good memories. Just recently got back into it and realized its complexity and is a bit frustrating that the training missions have no instructions other than that booklet.
+Nathanael Lingerfelt At first the game was quite overwhelming with all the systems and avioncs when compared to vanilla Falcon 4.0. I have the same felling now when comparing Falcon BMS 4.33 to Allied Force.
Are you talking out of experience? You do realize that Open Falcon was basically BMS between BMS 2.03 and BMS 4.32? I messed a bit with Open Falcon around 2007 and can say that Falcon BMS 4.32 and upward added something new in each iteration, and compared to OF it is superior in every aspect - avionics, flight model, graphics engine, naval ops etc. Also check this out, it's pretty interesting to see Falcon versions history: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Falcon-4-history.svg
Did you find when you upgraded to version 1.013 that the ACM radar modes stopped working properly? Since I upgraded, mine constantly cycles in & out of lock in vertical & HUD mode. Only boresight works and its no good in a turning fight.
you are never safe in this game. at 80000 feet, time you might not get shot down by a random SAM, but a Mig 29 can lock on and blast you out of the Korean or Bosnian sky
@damsonn I SO RECALL THE SPIRAL BOUND TECH MANUAL omfg.. wish I still had it Falcon 4 Superpack 4eva!!! F-117A Nighthawk woo! MICROPROSE!! frak Microsuck
Most likely, although you will have to "unlearn" some things as well. There are few differences, not only in avionics but also in UI (data cartridge management, weather system, default key layout etc.).
how do i start from the ramp every time? some missions start me in the air and some start on runway.. some don't let me choose where i start the mission. is there a setting i'm overlooking or what?
You should take into consideration the take off time of your selected sortie (selected mission might be already in progress - check the STATUS in FRAG ORDER window - when it says Briefing it didn't started yet). For example in this video I selected a mission which take off time was scheduled for 1711 and the current time was 1606, so I still had more than 1 hour. In F4AF the ramp start begins 25 minutes before take off time, in Falcon BMS 4.32/33 ramp start begins 20 minutes before take off time.
Dude - looks fantastic Perhaps you can help?? I cant get my resoultion past 1280. I want to run it at 1920 x 1080. After I apply any patch the game crashes after the intro. Anything I find on the net is old. Like you Im running Win 10. Any advises greatly accepted
What patch version have you installed? The latest official patch was 1.0.13, but the leadpursuit site is no longer available. You can however get the patch from here drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lKDHW-A6jqb0J0M1BSMV9zM3M Try this patch, probably it's a good idea to make a new clean install and apply the latest patch afterwards (it's cumulative so you don't need any previous patches). Let me know if that helped.
I don't remeber the default key bindings for flight controls, it was something like Shift+arrow keys (or ALT or even CTRL), you could check the assignments in the control options. I would really not recommend playing with keyboard though, you really need joystick for this game, or at least a gamepad (something with analog control).
Will Falcon 4.0 play on Windows 10? I didn't even try it. I thought for sure, it wouldn't. I couldn't even get microsoft flight sim 2004 to play. None of the combat flight sims either. I'd be surprised if Falcon can play, without a lot of jacking around.
I was able to run the GOG version with nGlide without much problems. Here's the vid, more info in the description: ruclips.net/video/UXnDj-J4cdQ/видео.html
This is Falcon 4 Allied Force (not Falcon 4.0), but I got Falcon 4.0 running on Windows 10 as well. Patch it to latest 1.08 version, go to: www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide download and install nglide glide wrapper And from here scroll down to Falcon 4 and download and apply the fix www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility
Hi Damsonn,,,, if you're still readibg this? I watched your video and was inspired to buy a copy of the game. (I loved the original game on my Amiga.) 🙂 It has installed on my Win 10 pc (I've updated it with patch patch_1.0.13 and I can go through the pre-flight screens. As soon as I try to load the actual flight part though I get a requester telling me something has failed and its back to the desktop. I read something about a protection thing that breaks a lot of older games on Win 10. I would love to get the game running properly, can you offer any advice? Thanks. P.S. I found a logfile that is full of this message: :Failed to read AeroDataSet: Unknown exception
The only compatibility flag set on FalconAF.exe is colors limit mode set to 16-bit. (right click on FalconAF.exe -> Properties -> go to second tab -> it should be second tick mark from the top). Maybe try that?
@@damsonn Thanks, but no, that didn't work. All I can think is it's something to do with that error in the logfile: :Failed to read AeroDataSet: Unknown exception or did you install yours from the Lead Pursuit CD, or another version?
@@000Angus000 Lead Pursuit. Installed it on WinXP machine and moved the install folder to Win 10 PC. Didn't tried to run installer from my new PC because I didn't have optical drive in it.
@@damsonn That seems to have done it. I copied the CD contents into a folder on my hard drive and installed from there, and now there's one more completely clueless Falcon pilot in the sky. Many thanks for your help. 🙂
The offical LeadPursuit page is no longer available, but you can access it through Wayback Machine, or you can get the patch from my archived location: drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lKDHW-A6jqb0J0M1BSMV9zM3M
I played the game on XP before and the sound was the same. The video you linked is from 2007, maybe they changed something in the subsequent patches. I'm using the latest official one - 1.0.13 which was released in 2008.
2d cockpit view is restricted to 4:3 by the cockpit art assets, 16:9 aspect is for any other 3d view (including 3d cockpit view). Back when the game came out 4:3 aspect ratio was the norm.
I can't get this to show full screen on windows 10. Can you please help?! lol There are bars to the left and right of the screen and it's cut off and squashed-looking.
What resolution have you set in the options? If you select wide aspect res (16:9 spect, like 1920x1080) you will still have black bars at the sides in 2D cockpit views (like here - 6:00 in my video) but you should get full wide screen in 3D cockpit and external views. If you set 4:3 aspect resolution (i.e. 1024x768) you should get black bars at the sides in all views, unless your monitor will stretch this res to fit your all screen and you will get vertically squashed looking screen if your monitor is widescreen.
For starters if you don't have any joystick I recommend a basic HOTAS setup (stick, throttle and rudder axis). I use Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas X. It's pretty cheap for what it provides.If you can spend more you can check out Thrustmaster Warthog. Ideally for Falcon you could use Thrustmaster Cougar (Falcon's HOTAS replica) but it's not in production any more, you can buy one used though.
I installed it on older machine and moved the installation folder. I didn't tried installing it directly on Windows 10, but it should work that way too. I also used official 1.0.13 patch (link in vid decription), game works fine on Windows 10.
If I remember correctly from the debriefing - yes. Although you could see a lot of led flying around. Usually AAA causes less damage. I limped back home several times after AAA hits.
It's not the original from 1998 (Falcon 4.0 by Microprose), it's official release from 2005 developed by Lead Pursuit. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_4.0:_Allied_Force
@@capitutoriales8044 IIRC it was something like CTRL + arrow keys (or ALT), because by default arrow keys alone move your radar cursor. You can bind the keys as you like, but without joystick it's really hard to make sensible control scheme, not to mention you're losing the analog (precise) control of the stick.
Going with SEAD flight is always a good idea. But if you go low no one can save you from IR homing MANPADs, well maybe except for a bunch of flares ;).
Thanks, you can find Falcon 4 Allied Force [2005] on ebay. Falcon 4 [1998] is available at Steam and GOG, and latest BMS4.33 [2016] is free, but you need to have Falcon 4.0 [1998] installed to install and run BMS and be registered to access their forum with download links:. www.bmsforum.org/forum/showthread.php?26567-Falcon-BMS-4-33-U1-Full-Installer
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Here's my latest Falcon 4.0 video commemorating its 20th anniversary: ruclips.net/video/yMmaj-u0Muo/видео.html
I have logged over 2000 hours in this sim. Played online every Saturday with friends in the US. I am located in Norway. Flew from 2008 to 2011. Still do some flights from time to time, but this sim eats up your time if you get hooked! Nothing beats the dynamic campaign. So immersive! I remember the feeling when I mastered aerial refueling!
I have logged over 3000 hours. I still play this sim every now and then. Even make videos every now and then. But like you said, it does get very time consuming.
It was EF2000 that taught me a lifetime of milsim training on refuelling! Try hitting a potbelly & drogue chute, then your a master. Incidentally owned F4 since release not AF that was a redo. On SimHQ
@HONCEWANG CHANNEL Yes, I am sure. I even have a video of it on my channel. 😊
I might have seen you on Hyperlobby then...
I bought this game back when it came out. If I remember right the instruction book was over 400 pages
Manual for Falcon 4 Allied Force has 716 pages, but as far as I know it was only in pdf format - at least that is what I get. The original Falcon 4.0 had awesome spiral-bound manual though.
Exactly. And in English. My thought with all the non-native speakers like me ^^
@@damsonn Over 600 pages spiral bound!
You get a nice 109 page manual in the box that goes through the training.
I found my old Allied Force cd and my bought hitiles from the day burnt onto another cd,might give it a go since bms is a bit daunting for me.
I still have the Falcon 4 manual and cadets guide. I never played it much. Took too long to learn it. Then you if you stopped you had relearn it again.
one of the best i played.. i remember reading whole book that came with this game.. completing training like a pilot and playing missions..
ما أسم الكتاب أين وجدته
That was some of the best flying I've seen.....Right up to the part where you got killed.
Getting IR seeking manpad to the rear is always a surprise.
Always loved the Falcon series. Such immersion. The only thing missing is the G force.
I understood that reference
@@taip4n Will it be re-used by Maverick talking to Goose's son in Top Gun 2 though?
@G E T R E K T 905 Looks like you didn't aligned your INS properly, or you messed with HUD display settings (right panel).
When I was 14, this launched and I saw it at EB games.
I was in awe.
Could not afford it.
2020, just need to learn how to play it.
That "Feet dry and going low" thing brings back memories. And also the ending :) I probably had 2500 hours in F4 "Classic" / "AF" and "BMS" combined.
Reminds me times when i was playing this on laptop and keyboard as i had no joystick. Then things came quickly, OF4.7, BMS 4.32. Now i am playing BMS 4.33U2 (i didn't installed U3 and 4), i have X-52PRO and trouchscreen for MFDs, ICP and most of cockpit switches so i am able to fly with almost no mouse. Not it gonna be 10 years since i first tried Falcon series and it is impressive how it evaluated from F4 to BMS 4.33.
You sir are a legend.
I'm not sure if I had incomplete links or what but following a clean install then applying the patch as per the link kindly supplied by you I'm up and running!! :) :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Got to admit as much as I enjoy AF in 1920 x 1080 Falcon BMS 4.33 brings things right up to date. Can't help but be tempted to download............................
Thank you again kind sir
You are welcome, glad I could help. Allied Force although rough looking is still fun to fly and compared to BMS slightly more accessible.
Oh my god, all the sounds everything bringing me back to when I saved up so much money to buy a joystick and bought this game when I was little.
Little did I know that this game is fucking realistic as fuck and hard as fuck. I was only a little fella I just took off from the runway and shot at my teammates didn't know what else I was supposed to do.
Same.
Was like 8 or 9 and between reading the manual for this game or the Bible... the Bible made more sense to me. Always played instant action to shoot down bombers and didn't know what else to do.
rockrboy83 ahhh the good old Il 28 beagle
my dad wanted to join the air force but sadly couldn't so, my dad, brother and I were fascinated by fighter jets and he comes home with this game and loaded it up. Had no idea what to do and didn't know it was a war simulator. To us, it was just a cool fighter jet game that could play. We did so many crazy things on here. 16 years later as I'm watching this how to properly play this game, this is way too advanced! I understand how you feel haha
Thank you so much for the 1.13 patch! I got 4.0 to run on W11, but the external view had plates missing on the aircraft. The patch fixed that perfectly. Can't wait to try 4.33 next! Appreciate the pointers!
Still the best menu music I've heard in any game.
its creepy
Cool - I textured the weapons for F:AF - nice to see a shot of the maverick there!
my childhood's simulator
Very well done. I enjoyed it!! I need a damn joystick!! Lol
+Matsimus Gaming Thanks! Joystick is a sure must in any flight simulation. I also recommend Track IR, which improves your situation awareness tenfold.
+damsonn I wish my friend but I just can't afford it right now :(
+Matsimus Gaming I feel your pain, I was refraining from buying one myself for several years, but I finally bought TIR4 for a half price of current TIR5 version and couldn't go back. I've tried DIY freetrack with my webcam, but the camera was so crappy it made the tracking laggy and unresponsive. Facetrack IR was also a simpler solution but with it's own cons. Track IR although a bit pricey, makes you forget about lag and lack of precision.
hey guys, lets get this going again, i met Geroge Starks on here and flew togther, it was awesome. ill have the server up and running
We need to fly again soon!!!
shot this is taking me back to the OLD compact Windows Vista home basic I use to own back in Christmas 2008
Hi, do any updates, overhauls exist for F4AF? There are times I think about dusting off F4, but, It sure would be nice to experience it modernized with new textures, support for current resolutions and vid cards etc. IF anything like that even exists.
This 2d cockpit is beautiful, reminds me of Fast Attack interface for 688(i) sim.
I remember playing this as a really small kid. I didn't speak a word of English and would just click around the menus until I ended up in a plane shooting at stuff.
hilarious ending 😄 reminds me of many endings i encountered myself! thanks for uploading this...best memories! the time n effort put in this sim were definitely worth the knowledge gained. i remember successfully doing an aireal refuel! i felt like the world owes me smthg! so this is windows 10. i stopped at win 8 and i fear upgrading to 8.1 or 10 so things wud never work again. i hv the hotas cougar, saitek combat pedals and track ir 5. awesome setup. if u confirm cougar works on win 10 i ll do the upgrade! am terrified! 😁 always had a hard time moving from win xp to ultimate to watever version next...
Some older games work better on Win 10 than on Win 7 which I have installed on my laptop (Jane's Fighters Anthology for example). I can't say if your HOTAS will work in new OS as I have different setup though. If it's using USB port and no additional software it should work 99% fine. If you use dedicated software for it, it will depend on the software being compatible with new OS.
Ah I love this game, brings back good memories. Just recently got back into it and realized its complexity and is a bit frustrating that the training missions have no instructions other than that booklet.
+Nathanael Lingerfelt At first the game was quite overwhelming with all the systems and avioncs when compared to vanilla Falcon 4.0. I have the same felling now when comparing Falcon BMS 4.33 to Allied Force.
Are you talking out of experience? You do realize that Open Falcon was basically BMS between BMS 2.03 and BMS 4.32? I messed a bit with Open Falcon around 2007 and can say that Falcon BMS 4.32 and upward added something new in each iteration, and compared to OF it is superior in every aspect - avionics, flight model, graphics engine, naval ops etc. Also check this out, it's pretty interesting to see Falcon versions history: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Falcon-4-history.svg
its nice to see an old game like this one never improve think this one came out in 1994
11:52 love how you remembered to look both ways before you cross
Safety first!
Ooof. I see you had the same experience I always do in this game lol.
Last game I played on PC before switching to my first console a PS3. FYI never looked back👍
I thought the intro looked familiar I've had this one too I like the falcon one of my favorite fighters
Did you find when you upgraded to version 1.013 that the ACM radar modes stopped working properly? Since I upgraded, mine constantly cycles in & out of lock in vertical & HUD mode. Only boresight works and its no good in a turning fight.
you are never safe in this game. at 80000 feet, time you might not get shot down by a random SAM, but a Mig 29 can lock on and blast you out of the Korean or Bosnian sky
Or take down the awacs..
@damsonn I SO RECALL THE SPIRAL BOUND TECH MANUAL
omfg.. wish I still had it
Falcon 4 Superpack 4eva!!!
F-117A Nighthawk woo! MICROPROSE!! frak Microsuck
All that fucking about and you get bummed when you getnto target...
Yup that rings a bell
Falcon in a nutshell ;)
damson ur great I really like ur videos....
If I learned all the avionics procedures in AF, Will I find BMS easier to use?
Most likely, although you will have to "unlearn" some things as well. There are few differences, not only in avionics but also in UI (data cartridge management, weather system, default key layout etc.).
Oh, I see. Thanks!
Awesome man, will get the server running.........
This graphic level can be ported to quest 2 or 3 no?
nice video! buy where can i bug this classic game?
Should've flown higher out of MANPAD envelope, the escort held it down. Fuck with BMS 4.34
How do you play it in widescreen? I downloaded it from MyAbandonWare but I can't seem to make it 1920x1080.
Install latest official patch 1.0.13
how do i start from the ramp every time? some missions start me in the air and some start on runway.. some don't let me choose where i start the mission. is there a setting i'm overlooking or what?
You should take into consideration the take off time of your selected sortie (selected mission might be already in progress - check the STATUS in FRAG ORDER window - when it says Briefing it didn't started yet). For example in this video I selected a mission which take off time was scheduled for 1711 and the current time was 1606, so I still had more than 1 hour. In F4AF the ramp start begins 25 minutes before take off time, in Falcon BMS 4.32/33 ramp start begins 20 minutes before take off time.
thanks.. :~)
Is there a sim that’s comparable to this.
Now I need to pull this game out of storage and install it again! Shame it's not on Steam though.
JCTiggs Falcon 4 original is on Steam and GOG. Get it then install BMS 4. 33U5 from Benchmark Sims. Well worth it.
TarnishUK Thanks for the info. I guess BMS is more up to date than Allied Force?
It was an advanced flight simulator just like flying real f16 back in class 4 I played this game
Dude - looks fantastic
Perhaps you can help??
I cant get my resoultion past 1280. I want to run it at 1920 x 1080. After I apply any patch the game crashes after the intro. Anything I find on the net is old. Like you Im running Win 10.
Any advises greatly accepted
What patch version have you installed? The latest official patch was 1.0.13, but the leadpursuit site is no longer available. You can however get the patch from here drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lKDHW-A6jqb0J0M1BSMV9zM3M Try this patch, probably it's a good idea to make a new clean install and apply the latest patch afterwards (it's cumulative so you don't need any previous patches). Let me know if that helped.
CLASSIC I still have Falcon 4.0..what if they recreated this same game today.... ???
The modders have recreated it, it's called Falcon 4 BMS 4.33
where can this be found- I would like to try it on my new gaming PC. ty in advance
@@Cryptonomics7 Search for BMS 4.33. be aware...it's bleeding huge.
Falcon 4.0 with BMS is way better
I feel stupid to ask this but what are the controls I cant fly the jet without a pc flight joystick
I don't remeber the default key bindings for flight controls, it was something like Shift+arrow keys (or ALT or even CTRL), you could check the assignments in the control options. I would really not recommend playing with keyboard though, you really need joystick for this game, or at least a gamepad (something with analog control).
Will Falcon 4.0 play on Windows 10? I didn't even try it. I thought for sure, it wouldn't. I couldn't even get microsoft flight sim 2004 to play. None of the combat flight sims either. I'd be surprised if Falcon can play, without a lot of jacking around.
I was able to run the GOG version with nGlide without much problems. Here's the vid, more info in the description:
ruclips.net/video/UXnDj-J4cdQ/видео.html
Yes, Falcon 4 does work on Windows 10 if you have the BMS mod that you can find here... www.benchmarksims.org/forum/content.php
How does it compare to DCS World?
What's your processor speed ? I bought a laptop with 3.5 processor speed and it won't run as smooth as this
I have Core I5 6600K with 3.5 GHz base frequency and 3.9GHz turbo frequency.
damsonn is it overclocked to 3.9 or standard system speed ?
I run it at stock clocks. The turbo boost is a standard feature of Intel Core i5/i7 CPUs
How do you run it on win 10? I have reinstalled my old falcon 4.0 but it does not run :(
This is Falcon 4 Allied Force (not Falcon 4.0), but I got Falcon 4.0 running on Windows 10 as well. Patch it to latest 1.08 version,
go to: www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
download and install nglide glide wrapper
And from here scroll down to Falcon 4 and download and apply the fix
www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility
@@damsonn thanks! Will try that
@@Amz0Pilot did it work??
@@hackhack9034 No it didn't
Hi Damsonn,,,, if you're still readibg this? I watched your video and was inspired to buy a copy of the game. (I loved the original game on my Amiga.) 🙂 It has installed on my Win 10 pc (I've updated it with patch patch_1.0.13 and I can go through the pre-flight screens. As soon as I try to load the actual flight part though I get a requester telling me something has failed and its back to the desktop. I read something about a protection thing that breaks a lot of older games on Win 10.
I would love to get the game running properly, can you offer any advice? Thanks.
P.S. I found a logfile that is full of this message: :Failed to read AeroDataSet: Unknown exception
The only compatibility flag set on FalconAF.exe is colors limit mode set to 16-bit. (right click on FalconAF.exe -> Properties -> go to second tab -> it should be second tick mark from the top). Maybe try that?
@@damsonn Thanks, but no, that didn't work.
All I can think is it's something to do with that error in the logfile: :Failed to read AeroDataSet: Unknown exception
or did you install yours from the Lead Pursuit CD, or another version?
@@000Angus000 Lead Pursuit. Installed it on WinXP machine and moved the install folder to Win 10 PC. Didn't tried to run installer from my new PC because I didn't have optical drive in it.
@@damsonn That seems to have done it. I copied the CD contents into a folder on my hard drive and installed from there, and now there's one more completely clueless Falcon pilot in the sky. Many thanks for your help. 🙂
@@000Angus000 I'm glad you got it working! Have fun learning the Viper.
how did you get it to work without the intro lagging and have the models look corrupt and see through? my copy seems to do that when I install it
I didn't do anything special besides installing latest patch. Have you installed the 1.0.13 official patch?
damsonn I don't think so, I'll see if I can grab the patch and reinstall the game later (EDIT: found the patch you posted, saving it to my drive)
The offical LeadPursuit page is no longer available, but you can access it through Wayback Machine, or you can get the patch from my archived location: drive.google.com/open?id=0B0lKDHW-A6jqb0J0M1BSMV9zM3M
Is this better than Falcon BMS?
No, it lies between original Falcon 4.0 and BMS.
Is there something wrong with your audio here? I remember the engines sounding higher pitched in the cockpit view...
I don't think so, I even watched other F4AF videos on youtube and they sound the same.
I played the game on XP before and the sound was the same. The video you linked is from 2007, maybe they changed something in the subsequent patches. I'm using the latest official one - 1.0.13 which was released in 2008.
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Why does it switch keep switching between 4:3 and 16:9?
2d cockpit view is restricted to 4:3 by the cockpit art assets, 16:9 aspect is for any other 3d view (including 3d cockpit view). Back when the game came out 4:3 aspect ratio was the norm.
I can't get this to show full screen on windows 10. Can you please help?! lol
There are bars to the left and right of the screen and it's cut off and squashed-looking.
What resolution have you set in the options? If you select wide aspect res (16:9 spect, like 1920x1080) you will still have black bars at the sides in 2D cockpit views (like here - 6:00 in my video) but you should get full wide screen in 3D cockpit and external views. If you set 4:3 aspect resolution (i.e. 1024x768) you should get black bars at the sides in all views, unless your monitor will stretch this res to fit your all screen and you will get vertically squashed looking screen if your monitor is widescreen.
Well, it's working but not in the full screen, the way you have it on your video. :( lol
Do I have to invest in a certain type of joystick?
For starters if you don't have any joystick I recommend a basic HOTAS setup (stick, throttle and rudder axis). I use Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas X. It's pretty cheap for what it provides.If you can spend more you can check out Thrustmaster Warthog. Ideally for Falcon you could use Thrustmaster Cougar (Falcon's HOTAS replica) but it's not in production any more, you can buy one used though.
Falcon 4.0 Allied Force was the shit!
Główny sterownik ekranu :D
Tak to już jest z polskim Windowsem ;)
Hotas support with bms?
If you mean does this has HOTAS support, then yes, it has. You can bind averything whatever you like.
Is this a block 40 f-16?
No. This is Block 50 or 52. Block 40/42 has wide angle HUD.
Here's Block 40/42 ruclips.net/video/k5YFiANmHmg/видео.html
@@damsonn ah thanks. I see a few cockpit differences from the DCS block 50 version that's why I asked.
Lock 'em up!
I have it 32 bit. Where did you get 64 bit?
It's running on 64-bit operating system. The game executable is 32-bit.
How do you get this running on windows 10
I installed it on older machine and moved the installation folder. I didn't tried installing it directly on Windows 10, but it should work that way too. I also used official 1.0.13 patch (link in vid decription), game works fine on Windows 10.
@@damsonn I have it working on windows 10 but when I installed the patch in the link the game would Not let me fly it gave me some error.
So it was a MANPAD that shot you down? i saw tracers i guess that was from AAA?
If I remember correctly from the debriefing - yes. Although you could see a lot of led flying around. Usually AAA causes less damage. I limped back home several times after AAA hits.
Did you use HiTiles in this video?
No, it's stock install with 1.0.13 patch applied.
where did you get a copy of the game??
allegro.pl/falcon-4-4-0-allied-force-pc-cd-battlefield-i6868735955.html
do somebody post the music's link ?
You mean this? ruclips.net/video/CWOGKjELMmg/видео.html
no look for 2.38 i mean that music
That's hard to find. But you may look for other F4AF videos where it may be showcased longer than in this video.
How to play an full screen
Install the latest official patch, link in video description.
Is this just the original
Game without bms?
It's not the original from 1998 (Falcon 4.0 by Microprose), it's official release from 2005 developed by Lead Pursuit. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_4.0:_Allied_Force
can you play with keyboard?
Probably, but you would have to rebind some keys in control options. Though I would highly recommend getting a joystick for this title.
@@damsonn Ok, sir
@@damsonn But what are the keys to fly? to guide me better
@@capitutoriales8044 IIRC it was something like CTRL + arrow keys (or ALT), because by default arrow keys alone move your radar cursor. You can bind the keys as you like, but without joystick it's really hard to make sensible control scheme, not to mention you're losing the analog (precise) control of the stick.
You can also play it with a ps2 controller, I'm currently doing it and I must say it gives you a lot smoother experience.
I think you could have used some SEAD support to have taken out some AAA and their radars :)
Going with SEAD flight is always a good idea. But if you go low no one can save you from IR homing MANPADs, well maybe except for a bunch of flares ;).
Game is for fun, there is no fun to read 750 pages of simulator aca control instruction. It's fun for pilots not Gamers.
It depends, for flight sims enthusiasts reading manuals like this is pure fun, for casual gamers not really...
It's a sim not a game, sometime shortly after its release we lost those.
Hello, good video. You can leave the download link Falcon 4?
Thanks, you can find Falcon 4 Allied Force [2005] on ebay. Falcon 4 [1998] is available at Steam and GOG, and latest BMS4.33 [2016] is free, but you need to have Falcon 4.0 [1998] installed to install and run BMS and be registered to access their forum with download links:.
www.bmsforum.org/forum/showthread.php?26567-Falcon-BMS-4-33-U1-Full-Installer
Ok man, thanks. Another question, the latest version (4.33), works with 64-bit operating system?
Yes, it has both 32 bit and 64 bit executables.
Ok. thanks man.
Great video, what specs does your computer have?
game is good but glitchy as fuck always crashing no sound half the time....more aggravating than anything..
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