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GD76
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3 years ago

The Quartus Prime Software quit unexpectedly

Running Quartus Standard Edition 18.1 (cannot upgrade). Always had no issue in the past but recently keep getting the message "The Quartus Prime software quit unexpectedly" whenever "Start Compilatio...
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ak6dn
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3 years ago

What is the operating system?

Have there been recent updates installed?

Did it stop working after some recent update?

Maybe back out recent updates and pause updates to debug the issue.

That is an older version of Quartus and recent system updates may be incompatible.

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    GD76
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    3 years ago

    Running 18.1 for almost 9 months on Windows 10. No updates done.

    What I discovered is (not solution yet), removing the signal tap file and deleting the "filename.cmp.rdb", then compilation works without the Quartus quitting unexpectedly.

    The signal tap files worked for a week so. No change made. So not sure why yet.