Raildriver Bug Report

[edgreenberg]

Very nice work on OpenRails. I love how the graphics pop in 32 bit color.

I hooked up the raildriver, and it seems that brakes and most switches work fine, but the throttle seems messed up. Full throttle deflection produces 13% power in both diesel and electric engines. There doesn't seem to be calibration capability, so I'm at a loss. I think it's a bug, so I'm reporting it here.

Using the latest OR (downloaded yesterday). Not sure of number, since I'm not booted in Windows right now.

Many thanks.

Suggestion: If you were to install a bug tracker like Mantis or bugzilla, it would be easier to search for reported bugs before reporting them.

[twpol]

Using the latest OR (downloaded yesterday). Not sure of number, since I'm not booted in Windows right now.

The 'version.txt' file contains the version number and 'revision.txt' contains the exact code version, if that's what you're after (assuming you can access the files).

Suggestion: If you were to install a bug tracker like Mantis or bugzilla, it would be easier to search for reported bugs before reporting them.

It would be nice (IMHO) to have a public bug tracker (privately we have a forum for it, but it isn't great and things get lost/forgotten about sometimes), though we'd need to make sure it is simple enough that people don't struggle to report issues (Bugzilla is not simple IME!) but also be sound against spam. I'm actually quite tempted to personally pay the $19/mo for http://getsatisfaction.com/ or similar, but we'd need to discuss this first.

[edgreenberg]

So does anybody have RailDriver working with 0.6.2, and do you get full 100% throttle? If so, what did you have to do to make it work?

[farrmp]

Works fine for me under Win XP. I used the Pi Engineering Calibration procedures that came with my unit.
I also run mostly Steam Power so I calibrated mine to minimize the Dynamic Brake quadrant (middle to Forward).

Paul

[longiron]

Ed,
Have you followed the OR Docs procedure for installing RD with Open Rails?

If you can find it, but Open Rails software cannot, look in a folder named controller and copy the ModernCalibration.rdm file to your main Microsoft Train Simulator folder. Hook up your RailDriver and launch Open Rails software.

Please note that the current version does not support Fwd-Neutral-Rev reverser positions, only Fwd - Rev. The current development build now supports Fwd-Neutral-Rev reverser positions.