Piccofly & Easyfly problem

Hi,

I couldn't get Piccofly to work on my laptop. Piccofly installed fine, but would not recognise any control inputs from the Tx, even when it was plugged into the COM port and switched on. Based on the error messages I received I think the program was looking for a games or other COM port and so did not receive any signals. I checked the COM port driver. This is fine. The transmitter and leads work fine on another desktop so they are not at faullt. I also tried switching on the laptop with the tx switched on to see if Windows would recognise it. Windows did recognise it, but even after a restart nothing happened. I also checked the Games controller settings, but could not add a controller this way as I think I need a games port for this. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

Can anyone shed any light on this or say what I need to check to to make sure that Piccofly is reading the correct COM port and make the thing work?

I'll also post this on the Piccofly forum if I can find it, just in case there are some other experts there.

(In theory the graphics card is not powerful enough but Easyfly seemed to run fine, but would also not recognise the transmitter.)

Thanks,

Andrew

Specs:
1Ghz Dell Latitude C400 P3 with 256 MB ram
Intel 830M graphic controller
Windows 2000
Ikarus transmitter lead
Futaba FF6

Hmmm... after looking throught the Piccofly forum this seems to be the same problem as everyone else there is having. About 50% of the posts are along the lines of 'It would not ...". Of course there are probably 1000s of people who are using it without a hitch. I did manage to email the Piccofly log file from the Piccofly directory to IPAC to see if they could diagnose the problem and will of course let you know whether the problem can be solved without buying another computer.

As installing games on the PC in general is about as much fun as cleaning out a septic tank (If you haven't tried it you will enter a whole new world of drivers, patches, DLLs and incompatable operating systems), I bought a playstation to end the mucking about and unsurprisingly everything I've bought for the Playstation has worked without a hitch.

Would it be too much to ask for a PSone or PS2 version of Piccofly, or is there another RC helicopter simulator for the PS2?

Cheers,

Andrew

Update: Reply from IPACs within the hour!

I had a similar problem when I installed Piccofly. 2 things I needed to do to make it work, and by the way I was running XP.

1 Download the patch. But it doesn't just automatically install. You have to actually drag or copy and paste it into the folder on your computer that currently has your piccofly and easfly files. It will literally replace the current files. You will have to do this for each program you want to fix (easfly and piccofly)

2 You may need to change some settings on your Com port. I can't remember the settings off hand but they are listed somewhere on the Piccofly Forum. Once I did this it would recognize my transmitter.

i had sim copter on ps one and it is hard but not much of a sim i got the hang after about 30 mins. not like the real beast.

Thanks for the info on the patch. It works fine now. I guess it was one of those Win2K things.

Andrew