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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Pin Planner Graphics Problem

Hello all,

I've had this long-time problem with the pin planner in Quartus that I'm hoping someone will have a solution for. Basically, when I bring up the pin planner, Everything comes up normal (Groups list, Nodes list, menu bars, toolbars, etc.) except for the actual pin view. It seems to be a graphics problem. I can move my mouse over the window and the little tool tips pop up (telling me what pin I'm over). Any graphics I move over the pin view window remain. So like if I drag a Windows calculator over it, it leaves images of the calculator window where I passed over it. It's kind of like what you see when some program in Windows locks up and never refreshes it's display. Then everything you drag over it leaves an image. I'd include a screenshot but for some reason, Windows can't do a printscreen on the window when it's having this issue.

Anyway, the only way I can fix it is by rebooting then I'm good for a while. I haven't determined for sure but it may only happen after my displays have gone into standby or I've used remote desktop then come back to my machine.

Anybody seen this before. It's been happening for like 8 months now.

Jake

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    Yes it is Windows XP 32-bit and I do already have the /3GB switch enabled. It was necessary for the size of my FPGA designs. 

    
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB

    Jake
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    16 years ago

    I was under the assumption, that the /3GB switch should also help with some graphics problems, but I may be an erroneous believe. Did you also notice the "quartus.ini" solution at the end of the above quoted thread? I have no idea if it's still valid for Quartus 9 and if it has any general meaning. As far as I understand, quartus.ini is a means to provide various undocumented workarounds and Quartus "cheats".

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    16 years ago

    Thank you. I missed that before. So first I set my color depth to 16-bit rather than 32-bit and the pin planner opened fine. However, other graphics programs suffered. So I added that "quartus.ini" trick. I had known about the "quartus.ini" file as I had used it to test beta features in past software releases. Anyway so far I'm not having any graphics issues. We'll see how it goes but certainly things are better now.

    Jake