Questa FPGA Starter Edition Licensing Issue

I am facing the same issue, what is the fix.

I ran into the same problems. I first ran into the "file or folder not writeable" error. This was solved by putting the project file (not source files however) in a non-cloud backed-up folder (I had it in a google drive folder and it had the problem). This solved the file writeable problem. Then it complained about the missing ". This took a while looking at various posts to discover that it is a tcl file used to start the simulator. It is line 122 of c:\intelFPGA_lite\22.1std\quartus\common\tcl\internal\nativelink\qnativelinkflow.tcl. the line reads:

set questa_installation "$questa_fse_directory

so add the quote at the end of the line.

But I would also still get an error due to the license missing. So I went to the intel website location for Intel® FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center and downloaded the license .dat file. I put it in the folder: c:\flexlm\LR-144265-License.dat. However, when entering the filename in the tools / license setup / license file selection for quartus, it would complain about the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable. This problem was solved by putting the file path for the prior license.dat file in the LM_LICENSE_FILE textbox. Also added LM_LICENSE_FILE to the Windows User Environment settings. This finally worked. Another thing to watch out for: you need to close the Questa window before re-running simulation with the quartus command.

I must say that I am utterly surprised by the lack of quality control for this. Windows 11 is very popular and testing my platform should certainly have been done by quality control at Intel.