Raildriver

[RCSD505]

I have been happily using OR 1.5 for a while. I was excited to get a good deal on a practically new Raildriver.

I had to upgrade to 1.6.1 to see the Raildriver tab. I ran through the calibration sequence and until I start the simulation I have "---" on the display. As soon as I press the ~ button to enable the raildriver, I get kicked back out to the main OR screen.

What am I doing wrong?

[CSRX]

I believe I had to calibrate it, and then move a file to a certain folder in ORTS.
Plus I also use the rail driver itself to enable it, should be right on the very left under "esc" labeled "Raildriver Run/Stop".

[RCSD505]

I've followed the calibration steps on the PI website as well as tried to calibrate it from within OR. I have tried it on 1.6.1 and the 1/22/2026 version some else reported working. Still crashes as soon as I enable the controller either from keyboard or the Raildriver button.

[CSRX]

I've followed the calibration steps on the PI website as well as tried to calibrate it from within OR. I have tried it on 1.6.1 and the 1/22/2026 version some else reported working. Still crashes as soon as I enable the controller either from keyboard or the Raildriver button.

So it looks like when I had to set it up, I had to put the "Raildriver.dll" file right into the "Open Rails_16" folder, not the MSTS folder. Maybe that would do the trick?

[RCSD505]

I already have that file present in my main Open Rails directory.

EDIT: I ran through the calibration sequence in OR for a 3rd time and it started working. I guess something didn’t save before.

Thanks!

[llanning08]

I've had the RailDriver with MSTS since before OpenRails came out (before 2000). I got it working in OR as soon as I could. Because of my older PC, I can't use better than OR v1.31. OR v1.3.1 has always worked okay for me. I have a .dll in the root OR directory from P.I.Engineering: PIEHidDotNet.dll I also have the file ModernCalibration.rdm in each of my OR mini routes. Do you have the PIEHidDotNet.dll in your OR root directory?