Hello everyone. Just letting you know exporting the multifunction displays to external displays in your home cockpit is a breeze in BMS Falcon!



BMS comes with a utility program called Display Extraction.exe, you can launch it from the same menu you launch Falcon itself. It lets you select the cockpit displays you are interested in. All of them can be exported, I think. You can then drag boxes with your mouse to designate the correct viewing area on your extra displays. I happened to have two 8" VGA displays available. Figuring out what to do and configuring the whole thing took maybe 2 or 3 minutes. It's even easier than in, say, DCS. I'm starting to like BMS Falcon even more.

You have to run the graphics in windowed mode of course (not BMS's fault, it's a Windows limitation I think) and you can set this option with the configuration tool or just add this line

g_bUseExternalWindows 1

... into Falcon BMS.cfg by yourself.
Next: have to figure out how to get rid of my Windows bar on the left.

Cockpit builders recognize them but the frames with the green buttons around the MFD's are Thrustmaster Cougar MFD's, only slightly modified. An inexpensive and easy solution: just plug in the USB cord.

Hi, I have interest in the Screens.. Where could I get these VGA displays??

THNX and Looks GOOD!! AWESOME in Fact..;)

I can't seem to get this to work, I don't get any boxes I can drag and drop or anything to put my MFDs on my second monitor.... I added that command option to my BMS config and still no-go. I'm not sure what I am suppose to plug in for the Top and Left options... I tried leaving them at 0 and nothing. My monitors resolution is 1920x1080 on my main monitor and 1280x1024 on my second monitor. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks

I think you are in full screen mode. Let me check which checkbox that was. You don't have to fill in any of those numbers. They are calculated automatially based on where you drag the box(es) with your mouse. The boxes should appear when you hit LAUNCH (in windowed mode).

Hi,
just a simple question.
Do you get the TGP and WPN (Maverick) picture on a second screen?
That would be a good reason to dig out my old 15" monitor in the basement.

I'm able to get it to run in fullscreen instead of Winndowed mode. I didn't have to change any config options, I just set it up using the launcher. I have a 5040x1050 eyefinity display on top and a VGA to USB IOgear monitor on the bottom. I extracted the MFDS to the VGA monitor and it still lets me play BMS in full screenon on the top screens.

Hi Neph,

I dont use VGA mini-displays, I use USB ones. Heres my set up using 3 LCDs for DCS-A10 and TM MFD OSB panels:

AV8R,

Which documents do you have on your E-Reader? I've got a Kindle and am trying to figure how to best use it for BMS.

Hi Guys,
I have the left and right boxes sized correctly for left and right mfd`s, but when I launch the game I just have 2 blanks,no image.What am I missing?

I just wanted to post my setup, in case there is anyone out there who has specific questions on Eyefinity, MFD extraction or Lightnings instruments.

The 1st pic is of my configuration settings.


The 2nd pic is what it looks like in the game's main menu.


The 3rd pic is what it looks like in flight.


Please don't laugh at my instrument placement, it is still a work in progress.

Anyone having luck with USB LCD external monitors and BMS Extractor?

The BMS Cockpitbuilders PDF suggests that multiple external monitors are supported, and Ive seen pictures here of it for VGA
monitors, like Maizpan's config. Im using USB LCDs as MFDs, and its not working right yet.

I can get the built in BMS Extractor to work, but when the MFD windows are dragged out side the main monitor area,
the MFD area goes white. Only when the MFDs are within the main screen (or camera) area do they display. It may be that BMS
doesnt support USB DisplayLink technology, or Im missing something here in the setup. Did I read that someone was using
USB to VGA IoGear to drive external monitors? That would make me think USB should work, but maybe not DisplayLink.

UPDATE...
OK so I can get the MFDs to work on a second monitor that is VGA and shares the same video card as the primary monitor.
What doesnt work, is when I drag the MFD in windows mode over to the USB monitor. It looks like perhaps DisplayLink isnt supported.
I dont have this problem for DCS driving USB LCDs as long as the composite video area includes where the LCD monitors are w/r/t the main camera.

I have the old F4 MFD Extractor software, and the gauges extract fine to the USB LCDs. Even the MFD locations where they would be in the 2D cockpit
display whats on the main screen. So the capability is there to do it, something is just amiss in my set up of the BMS Extractor, or it needs some
tweeks to make use of what F4MFDE was able to do with the shared memory.

Maybe Ill find a workaround, but if someone knows the developers, could you pass this along to them?

How do you disable the controls in BMS extractor that you don't need. All I want is the MFDs and the RWR.
thanks.

go to each instrument and uncheck the ENABLED box.
then save the configuration.

Lightning - the author of the Falcon MFD Extractor (FMFDE), has just told me that he is about a week out before he makes an update that will work with this new BMS release.
This will hopefully solve the problem I seeing with exporting to USB LCDs. It also has networked work load sharing, so slower systems can offload the exporting processing over a LAN.
I dont think this is the same extractor that comes with the BMS launcher GUI.

Bump!

Does the extractor still work in the latest versions?

AFAIK, yes. Still working on my setup, at least!

Ok, I ask because when i use it, I don't get any drag/drop gauges come up (even before I launch the game)

Drag and drop? Lightning's MFDE "options" panel just goes straight to the taskbar when I start it up, and the relevant gauges moves to their proper positions. You only set the positions once and the program remembers it. So I just start up MFDE along with everything else (TIR, TARGET profile, TS3, etc.) and it just works.