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12 years ago

USB Blaster Driver Software cannot install on Windows 8. Help!?

I'm running Windows 8 in parallels with OS 10.8 on a mac. It has been a miserable "Windows 8" adventure so far. I have downloaded and installed Quartus II v13 SP1. It has installed successfully or so...
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12 years ago

USB Blaster's driver from previous and current versions of Quartus II software doesn't supported under Windows 8.

See "OS Support Page": http://www.altera.com/download/os-support/oss-index.html (http://www.altera.com/download/os-support/oss-index.html)

and drivers download page: http://www.altera.com/download/drivers/dri-index.html (http://www.altera.com/download/drivers/dri-index.html)

You should try to create the USB Blaster's driver setup files for Windows 8 "manually", from the FTDI WHQL Certified D2XX driver: http://www.ftdichip.com/drivers/d2xx.htm (http://www.ftdichip.com/drivers/d2xx.htm)