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mindchasers
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4 years ago

Modelsim: "Unable to replace existing ini file"

Hello, Ever since I upgraded to the latest Quartus Pro Edition (21.2.0), the bundled Modelsim hangs when I compile a Verilog source file and prints out error messages to the console shown below. ...
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KCMurphy
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4 years ago

Sadly, it only works partially. I still get these errors in most cases.

Symptom: If I attempt to manually remove the project.mpf file, or rename it, I get a notice that the file is in use by vsimk.exe and the action is rejected. All user controls are off, I'm running as admin, and I own the folder and everything in it. But vismk.exe has locked the file as "in use" as far as Windows 10 is concerned.

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RichardT_altera
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4 years ago

Hi @KCMurphy

Could you try to install Questa Intel FPGA Edition (Q21.3 Pro) that released recently?

See if the issue still persists. It will be hard to fix this in Modelsim Intel FPGA Edition as it will not be supported starting from Q21.3 Pro onwards.

Best Regards,
Richard Tan

p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel support are helpful, please feel free to give Kudos.