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13 years ago

Modelsim doesn't load on Windows XP

I'm trying to get Modelsim 10.1b (Starter/free edition) running on my PC. I'm running on a clean installation of Windows XP SP3. When I click on Modelsim, the splash screen appears for several seco...
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13 years ago

Hmm, type "which vsim" on the command line.

It should be to a path that includes modelsim_ase, eg., something like

...altera/12.1sp1/modelsim_ase/win32aloem/vsim

I'm wondering if you accidentally installed the Altera Edition, rather than Altera Starter Edition ...

Try the command "vsim -version" too, perhaps that'll provide the version even without the license file being valid.

Cheers,

Dave