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So much so that Microprose themselves offered a newer version of MSVCRT.DLL for use with F4 back in the summer of ’99. Microprose put an ancient version of this critical file in F4 and it has caused a lot of misery. I’d also strongly suggest deleting the MSVCRT.DLL file from your …\Falcon4 folder now. Just keep the one in your …\Falcon4\Zips folder.ĭelete the standard version of msvcrt.dll that Falcon installed Needless to say you can safely delete the Simdata.zip file in the …\Falcon4 folder.
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It’s just an inexplicable bug in the 1.08 install routine. It doesn’t add this to your …\Falcon4\Zips folder, it puts it right in the …\Falcon4 folder. It does however add a second copy of Simdata.zip.
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The reason for this is because the 1.08 patch removes this and doesn’t replace it. The key is to keep it away from the …\Falcon4\Zips folder BEFORE you run the 1.08 patch. Tacrdata.zip has a lot of the files for the Tactical Reference section. I don’t know, but it can’t hurt, right? Ĭopy and save the tacrdata.zip file to a seperate location on your computerīut before you reboot go to your …\Falcon4 folder and copy the file Tacrdata.zip in the …\Falcon4\Zips folder and save it to somewhere, anywhere, outside of you …\Falcon4 folder like C:\My Documents or whatever. The theory that I have heard is that you’ll have “dirty memory” and rebooting, obviously, will clear your RAM, and that defragging will keep that contiguous block intact. I have done that and I didn’t really see any gain to it, but I’m not going to try and tell you that I’m a Jr. Now that you’ve got a fresh install of F4, some folks have suggested rebooting and defragging again.
You'll be asked if you want to install DX6 files.Don't do it unless you have DX5 or lower You don’t want DX6 files overwriting your DX8a (or whatever newer version you have) files. I’ve never had this problem, nor have I heard of anyone that did, but just in case you’re the first, I stand by my advice.
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So, your best bet…go with the “typical” install.į4 searches for DirectX 6 right after the installation, I’d think it a safe assumption that everyone’s well past having DX6 so if for some reason it tells you that you need to update DirectX files, and you’re ABSOLUTELY SURE that you have DX6 or higher, (I’d sure hope so, but if not that may explain problems you’ve encountered in other games!), don’t let it install them. Obviously that will hinder your performance. Choosing the “Minimum” install is a bad idea because you’ll be running some of the game off the CD-ROM rather than off your hard drive. Choosing the “Typical” install will save you approximately 250MB of hard drive space, and more importantly, will get you actually into the sim after clicking on your icon. So, ok, you’ve got your hard drive defragged, now what? I suggest choosing the “Typical” install unless you absolutely cannot live without the movies installed to your hard drive. (I won’t get into the live sacrifices, thankfully the latest patches have made that unnecessary-we’ll discuss installing the “LiveAnSac patch v. Not to mention the fact that I’m superstitious. So, for that reason alone, I’d suggest defragging before installing. I DO know, however, that when I install without defragging F4 searches the hard drive a lot more often when I’m flying it. Whether that’s true or not I really don’t know. This will ensure (I'm told) that all the F4 files are installed in a single, contiguous block on your hard disk.
Starting with a fresh install of F4, I absolutely, totally, and unequivocally suggest that you defragment your hard drive before running the installer routine. They ended their F4 patching with version 1.08 US which is where we’ll begin. After Microprose spent a year patching it, the development team was released and Hasbro dropped the project. Thankfully it has evolved greatly since that time. But, done right, it will make your F4 flying time a much richer experience.įirst off, you probably know how bug-ridden F4 was on its release in December 1998 so we won’t go into that. Patching F4 to get the latest and greatest “goodies” can be even less easy.
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(Remember the first time you opened the manual and tried deciphering Pete Bonani’s tutorial on the use of the radar?)
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At full realism, or “Ace” settings, it’s not easy. Having flown Falcon 4.0 (F4) since February 1999, Bob and I know firsthand that playing F4 can be a satisfying, if frustrating experience. Part I: Initial Install and Background by Jennifer & Robert Mitchell Playing with Fire: Patching the 'New' Falcon 4.0
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