Falcon 4.0

Falcon
Falcon	1987
Falcon A.T.	1988
Falcon 3.0	1991
Falcon 4.0	1998
Falcon 4.0: Allied Force	2005

Key points

It is highly recommended to play the game with a joystick

The manual is required to fully understand the underlying game mechanics

General information

Falconpedia - A wiki dedicated to Falcon 4.0

Improvements

In-game audio settings (BMS 4.32 Mod)

Version 1.08 Patch

The version 1.08 patch provides bugs fixes.

It can be found here.

BMS 4.32 Upgrade

BMS 4.32 is the latest and greatest Falcon 4.0 mod currently available. Released September of 2011, it brings total Windows 7 compatibility and support for modern gpus among many other bug fixes, graphical enhancements and avionics and realism improvements such as completely new Flight Modelling, DirectX 9.0c support with Shader Model 3.0 and HDR to name a few. More info regarding BMS 4.32 is here: BenchMarkSims webpage

It can also be downloaded from here.

Game data

In-game general settings (BMS 4.32 Mod)

Video settings

In-game graphics settings (BMS 4.32 Mod)

Input settings

In-game control settings (BMS 4.32 Mod)

Known issues

Graphical bugs are experienced during gameplay while running in Windows 7. Some textures will show bright purple sections with and without the patch and with the patch, text is unreadable while using hardware rendering. Switching to software rendering solves this but the game slows to a crawl while the cockpit is in view.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows 95	Windows 98
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	175 MB free	600 MB free
Video card (GPU)	High Colour graphics card	3D graphics card 8 MB of VRAM