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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Operating system compatibility for Quartus II 9.1

I have been using Quartus II 9.1 as freeware web pack on windows XP for cyclone II FPGA. Quartus web pack has been without any time restriction freeware. Now I wish to upgrade to PC with windows 7, however above doesn’t work. What shall I do? Please guide.

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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    I've used Quartus 9.1 with Windows 7. I installed Quartus after Windows 7 rather than upgrading an earlier Windows version. I haven't run it in a year or so. Its possible that a Windows update broke it.

    Try uninstalling Quartus and re-installing.
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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    There is no direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. You will have to reinstall all of your applications, including Quartus, from scratch.

    FYI:

    Quartus 13.1 is the last version that will run on Windows XP 32b and Windows 7 32b (and it will run on Windows 7 64b also).

    Quartus 14.0 and later require Windows 7 64b (not 32b) and later (Windows 8.1).

    Quartus 16.0 is the first version that will run on Windows 10 64b (also will run on Windows 7/8.1 64b).

    So if you have to run on WinXP 32b you will need to download the 13.1 version of Quartus. Or else upgrade to Windows 7 64b (or 8.1 64b).