I bought an RC Simulator cable to go with FMS software. Installed FMS 2.0 Beta 7 (my operating system is Windows 7) and then had to load D3DRM.dll from a CD that came with the cable. FMS seems to be loading but I have no control of the airplane with my transmitter. Keyboard functionality is not quite what it should be either: On the number pad, 8 and 2 function more like zoom in and out than up and down. I went back to Controls/Analog control/Joystick and the keyboard is still controlling the airplane, not the joystick. The cable has a blinking red light when I plug it in and it initially said that Windows was installing the driver and then said it was working properly.
I go to Control Panel then to “Devices and Printers†. There is a game controller there if the Simulator cable is plugged in to the computer. I right click on the game controller and go to properties. Click on tab General and it shows the model as PPM, I go to Hardware and there are two items; HID – compliant game controller, and the other is USB Input device. Device status for both of these items says “This device is working properlyâ€. Yet if I right click on the PPM game controller in Devices and Printers and go to Game Controller Settings, there is only one controller listed, it is PPM. I go to Properties and nothing works under “Testâ€. I went to Settings and calibrated and still nothing. It shows Z Axis, X Rotation, and Y Rotation. So I don’t think it is recognizing the JR radio which would have at least 4 axis (up/down and left/right on two sticks). The JR radio is 7 channels and the cable is plugged into a port called D.S.C Trainer.
Searching through the forum, I found a couple of references to needing a comm port. I installed VSPE per instructions and left it running minimized. No help. I tried HW Virtual Serial Port and tried to run that to create a comm port 5. It said the virtual port was not created and the ping was not returned. No help.
I don't know what else to try.
Please help.