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Super Contributor128GB RAM is sufficient for Quartus Lite. Your design compile fine and finish within seconds in my PC.
Which devices are you using? How much disk space does your machine have? Minimum disk space recommended for Quartus lite is 14 GB.
Additionally, go to Task Manager > Performance> Memory, to check and monitor the memory usage.
Here are troubleshooting steps that you may check during installation process:
1. Before you download and install the software, please check that your machine system met the minimum Hardware and Software Requirements. Ensure that your Operating System is supported.
Quartus 24.1std Software and Device Support Release Notes:
2. Check that the disk space is sufficient for the installation of the Intel FPGA software.
3. If you are running antivirus software, try to temporarily disable the antivirus software during the Quartus Prime software download and installation process.
4. Install the software with Administrator privileges.
5. Try to download and auto install using the new Quartus installer.
6. If install using .tar, try to re-download the Quartus .tar installation package and install again. Check that the installation files .tar is not corrupted by checking the checksum.
7. Check your OS history update, e.g. to check if the issue happen after some specific Window update.
Regards,
Richard Tan
New ContributorThank you for your reply. The device is MAX 10, 10M50SAE144I7G.
We have followed all the instructions! I apologize for only replying now.
We have spent several days with several employees trying to find a cause for the problem. As already described, the problem usually occurs on very powerful computers with at least 32 Gbytes of memory (and more), sufficient hard disk capacity and CPUs with 8 cores.
On less powerful computers with only 4 cores the problem does not seem to occur. We have run the same design, which I have also sent, on many different computers. On some computers we can compile it 20 times. On other machines it occurs about the third time we compile it. If the problem occurs once, the Quartus installation is corrupted! Then you can no longer compile anything.
We then uninstalled Quartus completely and used CCleaner to search the registry several times for errors. Several errors were found here. When we had cleaned everything up, we reinstalled Quartus. Then the problem no longer occurred on the same computers where the problem previously occurred.
I have now found out that the error may occur when we compile this design on our network drive. After a complete reinstallation as described above, I was able to compile the project 5 times without errors when saving it to the local hard disk with both Prime Lite 24.1 and Prime Lite 19.1.
When I opened the project on the network drive, the error occurred on the 5th compile with 19.1.
This is the current status. The problem is very serious for us. If we don't get it solved, we will no longer use Quartus for teaching and research projects in our department.
