[Equest-users] equest crashes

[Alex Krickx]

Not to be a contrarian, but I find eQuest to run just fine. I'm running it on a new-ish laptop (intel core 2 duo processor, 2 GB ram) and I've had very minimal problems. Sometimes it locks up when I have an 8-shell building and 10 other programs open, but I've had that same problem with any energy modeling tool I've used.

Does it crash sometimes? Sure once in a while. But I would say "rarely", not "this is the most unstable program I have ever tried to use".

Just my opinion, I think the software is really great!

Regards,
Alex Krickx

-----Original Message-----
From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of jredburn at mindspring.com
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:07 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] equest crashes

Luke.
Welcome to the club.  
This is the most unstable program I have ever tried to use.
We have a new work station that we put EQ  into,  When we try to open an existing program we get an error and the program crashes.  If we open the file on another (networked) computer, we can then open the file and it will run, sometimes.  When we try to save the file on the first computer it will not do it. Three re-installs did not help.
I just put four hours in inputting data into 26 shells, (different computer)I saved the file after each shell and had no error reports, I went to run the simulation and got an error that said I had 4 file violations and it will not run.
What helps is lots of RAM, and exit all those little TSR's  in the tray at the bottom of the screen.  Don't run another program when using EQ. Even in the background.
Regards
Joe
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