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Fitter stalls on "Advanced Physical Optimization" on Windows 10

We are reluctantly moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have a project that compiles just fine on a Windows 7 Pro machine with an Intel Core i7-3930K CPU using Quartus 19.1 Lite. I copied the proj...
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2 months ago

Hello ShengN_altera​ ,

That worked!

I did not realize "SMT" was AMD's term for Hyper-threading. Still not clear why it caused a problem. It is supposedly transparent to user programs.

I went into the BIOS:

    Advanced\AMD CBS\CPU Common Options\Thread Enablement

and changed SMD Control to disabled. It now completes the compile.

Hopefully it will not affect other programs, but at least I have a solution. Hyper-threading is probably a waste of time on a 64 core system anyway.