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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Everyone<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am new to Equest and am having trouble when I try to work
with a local weather file on a certain computer and run the sim.
I’ve gone through the “test equest” process, where I
basically open the wizard, accept all defaults, and it runs great. I’ve
been playing with the tutorials for about a month now, I suppose I should have run
a sim before and identified this problem earlier.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>As soon as I select any other town than the default and try
to run a simulation, I get “1 run terminated due to errors”, and
when I “view detailed simulation output file” and select
“open”, I get an out of memory error when it tries to open the Sim viewer.
Then the sim viewer does open, and the file references a problem with the
weather file “end of file read on weather file”, and nothing else
is in the file.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve tried restarting computer, running no other
software, however task manager indicates I only have about half of my physical
memory available even when nothing is running. If I’m interpreting
that correctly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve downloaded Equest on another computer (not
typically available to me), and it seems to work fine (at least I don’t
get this error and sim failure), even with the specified weather file.
The computer with the problem is a laptop, with 1 GB memory, and 1.83 dual
processor. It is quite a few (or more) years old, yet was a hot machine
when new. I’m afraid this computer is just not up to the
task. I’m newly “out on my own” and hate to buy a new
computer if I don’t really need it right now. Any advice on how to
make it work would be appreciated. I don’t see on the Equest page
where system requirements are listed, but I expect I’m out of luck.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If the computer is due to be replaced, what would be
recommended for system processor and memory and else to make it an Equest happy
machine for many years to come?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Laura<o:p></o:p></p>
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