USBblaster does not show up in Quartus

System: Windows 7 - 64 bit

QuartusII - 11.1 SP2 - 32 bit

I have another solution not listed here, for those of you that still cannot get it working.

/support/kdb/solutions/rd03062012_414.html

(sorry i cant post links, put http www altera.com in front of that link)

This support page here talks about a patch, but it says that the patch is *ONLY* for 64 bits versions of QuartusII 11.1 SP2. "32-bit installations are not affected."

The cake is a lie. This patch also works for 32 bit versions of QuartusII. Follow the instructions on the support page above, but when running the patcher, it will not detect that you have any version of quartus installed (if like me you actually have 32 bit quartus.)

Luckily, the patcher allows you to "install anyway" warning some rubbish about it not working and messing up your install. Choose as the install dir "C:\altera\11.1sp2" or whatever yours happens to be.

Tell it to install anyway.

Start the jtagserver again. Voila :)

Worked for me after wasting hours of downloading every dll and ini and standalone installer version I could get my hands on.