After much frustration and searching for answers, I put together the following tips for FMS under both XP & Vista.
FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.5 requires that d3drm.dll be loaded in the FMS directory to run on Vista.
FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.5 also requires that some sort of serial port be defined if is to run on either XP or Vista. This can be a ‘real’ physical serial port, or a ‘virtual’ serial port. For example, I have an LG phone, and when LG phone software is loaded on my XP computer with no ‘real’ serial ports, it creates an ‘LG CDMA USB SERIAL PORT’. Look in Device Manager, under ‘Ports (COM & LPT)’ to see if any COM ports are defined. If none are found, you MUST define some sort of serial port for FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.5 to run on either XP or Vista.
FMS 2.0 Beta 7 on XP does not require that some sort of serial port be defined, nor does it require that d3drm.dll be loaded in the FMS directory.
FMS 2.0 Beta 7 on Vista does not require that some sort of serial port be defined, but it does require that d3drm.dll be loaded in the FMS directory.
More on where to download d3drm.dll and how to create ‘virtual’ serial ports can be found by searching this forum.
John Galt