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8 years ago

What is wrong with Quartus II?

Hello, I currently spend more time waiting for Quartus II than conceiving and compiling a whole project. I systematically have to wait for minutes each time a compilation is over, or QSys genera...
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8 years ago

I'm not sure the CPU load of 20% is necessarily indicative of any particular problem or lack of problem in Windows or Quartus. In a multi-tasking operating system, an underlying OS process or service can be suspended and not run for minutes at a time and it could cause applications that rely on it to hang or misbehave. Not all applications might use that particular OS service, so you might see some applications fail and some work correctly. The point is that there is nothing here that definitely points to a problem with the 17.0 Quartus installation. OTOH, it does seem like the 17.1 installation was corrupted since it was missing files that I am able to see in my own Windows installation. I would try following the suggestions for debug in the link that I provided and see where that gets you.