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Users of the excellent Flying Model Simulator are reporting having trouble getting it to work properly on Windows Vista. After installing and trying to run FMS, users are generally presented with an error box stating: D3DRM.DLL cannot be loaded. Basically, this is telling you that Windows is missing a library, and needs it to display the graphics. Fortunately, there is a library available that fixes this problem. In this article, I will show you how to install this on Windows Vista, so that FMS will work.

1. First, reinstall the FMS flight simulator program. A self extracting installation wizard is available on the page, at http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html Download the latest version, titled Version 2.0 Beta 7 (Windows 9x/ME/2000) - recommended Version
2. After installing, you will need to install the missing library D3DRM.DLL in your Windows Vista System32 folder. Please be careful to follow these instructions exactly, you could damage your system by accidentally deleting files in this folder. Here is the installation procedure, be sure to follow it exactly.
   1. Go to http://www.driverskit.net/dll/get/494.html and enter the code that you see at the bottom of the page.
   2. Press the download button, and save the ZIP file to your computer.
   3. Extract the file D3DRM.DLL
   4. Move the file D3DRM.DLL into the folder C:WindowsSystem32
3. Restart the FMS application, and it should now work perfectly.

Under most circumstances this will allow you to use FMS on Windows Vista. it is recommended to install and run FMS prior to purchasing a simulator cable or controller as this fix does not always apply.

Please use the FMS forum for technical support.

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/forum/

Please note that there is a known problem with Nvidia Graphics cards where the screen flickers and stutters. This can be solved by removing the textures from the simulator, to do this click graphics at the top and remove the textures.