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2. Software Installation
The software
installation is straight forward - no registry entries are
made or changed. Download the zip package for the motion driver
version for the flight sim you wish to use (links on the
Introduction page). Unzip the package into a
dedicated directory. Do not mix the files from different driver
versions and do not remove any files from the directory.
To uninstall the
software simply delete the directory.
For MS sims (FS9/X) you will need an
up-to-date version of FSUIPC installed for the FS version you are
using. FSUIPC3 for FS9 and FSUIPC4 for FSX. Please read carefully Pete Dowson's installation procedures
especially those for FSX – they can be found on his forum which
is accessible from the FSUIPC web page -
http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html
Your copy of FSUIPC does not need to
be registered to run the BFF Motion Driver (although I suggest you do as it
enables a number of useful features).
IMPORTANT:
Please check Sections 9 onwards for
any special installation and set up instructions for the version of
the motion software you are using. The information below is mainly
for the most popular flight sim versions.
For MSFS version-
 Normally the motion driver package should be
unzipped to a dedicated directory on the same machine as FS is
running. However if you are operating the driver over a
network it should be installed on the LAN PC and the BFF Motion Bridge software must be
installed on the sim PC
– the Bridge .exe is included in a separate zip file in the main zip
archive and this Bridge zip file must be copied to the sim PC and its
files extracted to a dedicated directory.
The Bridge.cfg
configuration file on the sim PC must be edited to set the IP
addresses of the sim and networked PC's and the PortS and IPAddress
settings must be configured in the .bff driver configuration file on
the LAN PC.
For X-Plane and Condor Soaring versions -
For these sims BFF Motion Bridge
is not required for LAN operation. The driver receives data directly
from X-Plane/Condor using UDP protocols. It is necessary however to set up
the data outputs in X-Plane and this is described in Section
7. The
driver package should be installed on the machine on which you want
it to run.
See the
Condor quick start guide for setup steps for the Condor Soaring
version of the driver.
See
Section 7 for the data export
settings in X-Plane that are needed.
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