DSim Studio waves.mxd Error: "libmxd failed to load."

benedhm
benedhm Altair Community Member
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Description: I want to use DSim Studio to simulate Gowin FPGA designs. I followed the tutorial: Tutorial: DSim Studio for GOWIN. I was sucessfully able to compile and run the example design, however when I tried to view the waveforms with waves.mxd I got this error Error libmxd failed to load. You may be on an unsupported OS, architecture or application version. How do I resolve this?

Windows 11 / VSCode / DSim Studio 2025

Product/Topic Name : DSim Studio, Waveform

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  • Shaun_Altair
    Shaun_Altair
    Altair Employee
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    Are you sure you installed DSim Studio, and not the deprecated DSim Desktop? Ensure you've uninstalled DSim Desktop before running DSim Studio. This can be done from the VSCode Extension - DSim Desktop. Also, ensure you've installed the Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, as instructed in the Prerequisites of Install DSim Studio.

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  • Shaun_Altair
    Shaun_Altair
    Altair Employee
    Answer ✓

    Are you sure you installed DSim Studio, and not the deprecated DSim Desktop? Ensure you've uninstalled DSim Desktop before running DSim Studio. This can be done from the VSCode Extension - DSim Desktop. Also, ensure you've installed the Latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, as instructed in the Prerequisites of Install DSim Studio.

  • benedhm
    benedhm Altair Community Member
    edited March 16

    Solved, thanks.

  • benedhm
    benedhm Altair Community Member
    https://community.altair.com/discussion/comment/191123#Comment_191123

    I installed DSim Studio, but seemed to also have installed DSim Desktop. Uninstalled that, and now it works. Thank you!

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