[Equest-users] equest crashes

[Carol Gardner]

I agree with Alex. I am running it on a MacBook Pro with a dual environment
circa 2007 with no problem. Many times I would like to blame my problems on
eQUEST but that's a separate issue.

Carol

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alex Krickx <akrickx at seriousmaterials.com>wrote:

> 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-----
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> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of
> jredburn at mindspring.com
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:07 PM
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> 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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