Error: Can't launch QuestaSim Simulation software

[Roberto07]

I installed Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition and Questa*-Intel® FPGA Starter Edition on my PC. I created my first VHDL project and testbench, and compilation went fine.

I also was able to program and test the DE10-Lite board.

However I am not able to simulate the project. I have required a free license for Questa and received it. I set up everything in Quartus and I also inserted the environment variables as specified in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6FvXga4f1A

but when I try to start Questa this is the message received:

"L'esecuzione del codice non può proseguire perché MSVCR120.dll non è stato trovato. Per risolvere il problema prova a reinstallare il programma."
The problem is that I already reinstalled Questa 2 times...
Can you please help me? Thanks, Roberto.

[Roberto07 · Accepted solution]

Ok, I solved downloading the missing file from:

https://www.repairtofix.com/dll-files/msvcr120dll-download-msvcr120dll-is-missing-not-found-corrupted/27

and then launching 

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow

from command prompt.

Windows is strange when you're a stranger...

[AR_A_Intel]

Sounds good, hope everything is working well at your side. This thread will be transitioned to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you

[GregS]

Hello AR_A_Intel,

I am having a similar problem trying to invoke the Questa simulator in Quartus 21.1.  Here is the error message I get:

"Can't launch the Questa Intel FPGA software -- the path to the location of the executables for the Questa Intel FPGA software were not specified or the executables were not found at the specified path."

My Questa Intel FPGA path is set to: "c:/intelFPGA_lite/21.1/questa_fse". I also tried "c:/intelFPGA_lite/21.1" with no luck.

Am I missing the file mentioned in the above discussion? 

Thank you for any help you can provide for this issue.

Regards,

Greg