Using Flying Model Simulators for remote control helicopters and planes and need some help with instructions and downloading. Now you can get it to work properly on Windows Vista. After installing and trying to run FMS or Esky simulators, sometimes 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, we will show you how to install this on Windows Vista, so that FMS or your ESKY simulator will work.

First, reinstall the FMS or ESKY flight simulator program. A self extracting installation wizard is available here. Download the latest version, titled Version 2.0 Beta 7 (Windows 9x/ME/2000) - recommended Version

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.

Go to here

Press the download button, and save the ZIP file to your computer.

Extract the file D3DRM.DLL

Move the file D3DRM.DLL into the folder C:\Windows\System32

Restart the FMS ESKY or simulator application, and it should now work perfectly.

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