Strange issue Astro-saber & xts3000 cps

[Lemmon]

I'm attempting to boot cps for the xts3000 in a x32bit Windows xp Virtualbox, the install was a success, however when I boot the program, it throws the error " unable to find file specified " and crashes. I then attempted to run the program on my physical PC which is running x64bit Windows10. Yes I'm aware I wont be able to read/write the radio, I just wanted to test the launch. It turns out the program will in fact load normally on my PC with no errors thrown, which makes no sense to me, seeing as both installs were identical besides being on 2 different OS's. Any tips would be appreciated, thanks. (Yes I considered getting a real XP laptop with an RS232 port.)

 

[ElroyJetson]

FYI, I've had flawless performance out of machines running Windows 7 with the Astro and Astro 25 software. You don't have to revert to XP to make it work.

 

[Lemmon]

FYI, I've had flawless performance out of machines running Windows 7 with the Astro and Astro 25 software. You don't have to revert to XP to make it work.

Oh, should have mentioned it above, I also ran cps on a Windows Vista x32 VM, and Windows10 x32 bit VM as a test with the same error being given, I have tried on other OS's believe me, but it still only loaded correctly on a physical Win10x64 installation.

 

[wa8pyr]

Oh, should have mentioned it above, I also ran cps on a Windows Vista x32 VM, and Windows10 x32 bit VM as a test with the same error being given, I have tried on other OS's believe me, but it still only loaded correctly on a physical Win10x64 installation.

I've never had any problems running CPS for Quantar, Astro Saber, Astro25, APX etc on a VMWare Fusion virtual machine on Mac, but it had to be a Windows 7 32-bit install. x64 was kind of flaky so I stuck with x32.

I now use CF30 and CF53 Toughbooks running Windows 7 x32 for nearly all my programming. Works like a charm.

 

[mattw34]

I realize this thread is a year old, but I had the same issue as the OP. I started with a fresh install of Windows 7 32 bit on a spare laptop. I received the error "unable to find file specified" when launching CPS. It turns out the problem in my situation was that I had not inserted the USB to RS232 serial adapter into this freshly installed copy of windows for plug and play to install drivers and a virtual serial port. Once the computer had the drivers installed, Astro Saber & XTS 3000 CPS started without error and the problem was solved.