Questa not opening GUI when following Questa* Intel® FPGA Edition Quick-Start: Intel® Quartus® Prime

[Fast_Eddie]

I’m working through “Questa* Intel® FPGA Edition Quick-Start: Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition” tutorial, and I get to the run simulation stage per https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/703090/21-1/launch-simulation.html - according to the log file, the simulation was spawned:

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Info: Start Nativelink Simulation process

executing command line: ip-make-simscript --nativelink-mode --output-directory=PLL_RAM_iputf_input --spd=C:/FPGA/Quartus_STD_LITE_PLL_RAM/ClockPLL.spd

========= EDA Simulation Settings =====================

Sim Mode              :  RTL

Family                :  cyclonev

Quartus root          :  c:/intelfpga_lite/23.1std/quartus/bin64/

Quartus sim root      :  c:/intelfpga_lite/23.1std/quartus/eda/sim_lib

Simulation Tool       :  questa intel fpga

Simulation Language   :  verilog

Simulation Mode       :  GUI

Sim Output File       : 

Sim SDF file          : 

Sim dir               :  simulation\questa

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Info: Starting NativeLink simulation with Questa Intel FPGA software

Sourced NativeLink script c:/intelfpga_lite/23.1std/quartus/common/tcl/internal/nativelink/modelsim.tcl

Warning: File PLL_RAM_run_msim_rtl_verilog.do already exists - backing up current file as PLL_RAM_run_msim_rtl_verilog.do.bak1

Info: Spawning Questa Intel FPGA Simulation software

Info: NativeLink simulation flow was successful

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But the Questa GUI does not open, so I can’t go look at the results/waveforms as suggested.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

[Fast_Eddie · Accepted solution]

Ok, I have sussed it - license failure.  Forcing setting the environment variable for the license file in a batch file immediately before launching Quartus seems to make sure Questa can see it.  Pity Quartrus just hides the Questa standard output so you never see the error message

[RichardTanSY_Altera]

I believe you can invoke the Questa standalone software (not through Quartus) to check for any license checkout error message.

I'm pleased to know that your issue has been resolved.

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