RAVE and Win 10

**p38arover** · 28th August 2023, 03:15 PM

I had a HDD fail. Upon recovery, I lost a working RAVE.

I tried copying it to my new HDD from the genuine RAVE CD, running it in XP SP3 compatibility and as an Administrator but it fails with a Portable Document Format has stopped working.

Windows 10 is 22H04. Maybe I'll need to go back to Win 10 version 1909.

Has anyone got it working in the latest versions of Win10?

**incisor** · 28th August 2023, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I had a HDD fail. Upon recovery, I lost a working RAVE.

I tried copying it to my new HDD from the genuine RAVE CD, running it in XP SP3 compatibility and as an Administrator but it fails with a Portable Document Format has stopped working.

Windows 10 is 22H04. Maybe I'll need to go back to Win 10 version 1909.

Has anyone got it working in the latest versions of Win10?

Wish one you after ?

**BradC** · 28th August 2023, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

I had a HDD fail. Upon recovery, I lost a working RAVE.

I run all of that stuff in a virtual machine. Volvo VIDA on WinXP, LR Microcat on Win7, VW ETKA on Win7.

My version of Microcat has "expired", so I have it set to start the VM with the date set to 1st of April 2009.

Too much hassle with compatibility crap with this proprietary software. Doing it this way means I can do whatever I like with the underlying hardware and OS, but the fussy software just keeps working.

**p38arover** · 28th August 2023, 05:36 PM

Dunno how to set up a VM. I tried once to no avail.

**p38arover** · 28th August 2023, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by incisor

Wish one you after ?

L322

**incisor** · 29th August 2023, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

L322

watch your email

**Tins** · 29th August 2023, 08:44 AM

On the subject of VMs, try this. Works great, and best of all it's free.

**BradC** · 29th August 2023, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Tins

On the subject of VMs, try this. Works great, and best of all it's free.

I used to use that, and for ease of use I really rate it.

**Tins** · 29th August 2023, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by BradC

I used to use that, and for ease of use I really rate it.

Me too. I use a Mac, and used to pay for Parallels, but for the amount of times I need to run a win program it's not worth the $$$, and VB is easily as powerful. If I want to use Linux for some obscure reason I just boot into that.

**BradC** · 29th August 2023, 02:57 PM

Virtualbox is nice in that it runs on multiple operating systems and will run the same VM the same way on all of them, plus it's dead easy to use and as you say *free*. Can't get much better than that.

I use Linux day to day on all my machines (Mac and otherwise), but the fact virtualbox runs on the big three gives it a big plus in my book (plus it's based on QEMU and I originally wrote the "absolute positioning" tablet USB device that makes the mouse work), so I've got "skin in the game" so to speak. That was before VirtualBox existed and was for "Win4Lin" back in the late 90's.

I haven't used Windows on the bare metal since about 1997 when I started virtualising Windows 95. Windows runs so much better when you keep it away from sharp objects, are able to prevent it from downloading "security updates" and completely isolate it from the outside world. I need Windows for AutoCAD, Revit, Altium and the times I really need Office to interoperate with others, but otherwise I keep it shut up in a little box.

Nice being able to snapshot the VM to try out new software, apply an update or the like and when it inevitably breaks just roll it back.

Windows is a necessary Evil (capital E) for business, but being able to stop it "phoning home" and keeping it in a tightly controlled box solves so many issues.

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