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Unfortunately, our maintenance ended in 02/2025. Is there something like a trial or demo of 10.3 that we could use to test it?

Thanks, I will try it out without underbars and also with another model.
I can't share the current model as it is commercial.

Yes, I attached it to this message.

It seems erratic to me what is causing Vensim to freeze. Today it happened after: - clicking equation editor button - clicking start simulation button - click shadow variable tool Whats always the same is the unnamed instance of Vensim appearing in the task manager. I postet the screenshot twice abo...

I'll try to monitor what causes the error. I haven't yet tried Windows safe mode.

Is there any way to find out what this instance of Vensim is?

It just occured again: ESC doesn't help, it throws a warning tone like any other input.

Just happened again: the second error mentioned above. My steps were: 1. opened Vensim 2. opened a model 3. tried to copy a variable 4. -no more input possible- There is only one window open in Vensim that I can see. Task manager shows another unnamed instance (which I cant force quit): vensim_err.p...

Okay, I'll try that.

The errors seem to occur in two ways:
1. the programme freezes completely and no longer responds to inputs.
2. the programme emits a warning tone, as if a child window is open in the background. However, I cannot see this because the parent view is in the foreground.

devM5 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2025 3:38 pm Btw: I've had 8 freezes in less than two hours of using Vensim 10.2.2 on different computers. Even task manager cant force-quit it, the only option is to restart the system.

Is it the same for others?

My colleague recently found out that this is related to different display scaling settings (125%, 150% etc.) in a multi monitor setup. If I understood correctly, it behaves like that: 1. model opened on display A (lets say a 4k monitor set to 150% scaling) 2. Vensim window is dragged to display B (F...

Btw: I've had 8 freezes in less than two hours of using Vensim 10.2.2 on different computers. Even task manager cant force-quit it, the only option is to restart the system.

The wildcard search will be in the upcoming 10.3 release. Thanks! The min/max should not have been there in the old GUI (as a lot of things should not have been there). These are popup windows, so are technically correct in the new GUI. I'll see if we can add an option to add the min/max buttons. Y...

Here's examples of what I mean in comparison between old and new GUI, all recorded in Vensim DSS 10.2.2 64-bit. Same model and settings. Find/Seach function: New GUI will not consider underbars as whitespace when searching, no matter how the options (show underbar; use hard underbar) are set. To the...

Using Vensim DSS 9.4.2 (64 bit) on Windows 11 Pro, but as fas as I know it's for every version using new the GUI and used to be different in the old GUI: 1. the Find function (CTRL+F) can only find variables if underbars _ are replaced by white spaces. Also it won't accept asterisks (*) as wildcard ...

Hello,

I am using the new sketch style in Vensim 8.2.1, however I cannot find the function to view the model as text.


It used to be in the menu bar in View > As Text. Has it been moved to another place or is there a shortcut to open the text view?

OK, thank you!

Is there a way to have Vensim save simulation results as single precision numbers, even though the DP version of Vensim is installed? As far as I can see, there has been no SP version released with version 8.2.1 and newer. The simulation size of over 1 GB fills a local hard disk with 250 GB of space...

Ok, thank you!

I am trying to get the DLL-examples delivered with Vensim 8.2.1 (64-bit) to run in Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-bit). The example I am using is C:\Users\Public\Vensim\DLL\excel97\VENDLL.XLS When I run the "Get Vensim Info"-macro, Excel is returning a runtime error errorcode 53 - vendll32.dll n...

The difference may also come from me operating the stopwatch late in the evening, so it could be less

I will check it again.

Must be either different compilers, or optimization settings for the compiler. Are you using the same compiler on both machines? And the line beginning "cl" in mdl.bat, what /O switches are on each? Machine 1 is using Visual Studio 2010 with compile statement CL /c /I "%2" /DWIN...

Sorry for the delay, I didn't get to test it again until yesterday. I could figure out that the compiled simulation wasn't working due to a wrong configuration. In the vensim settings, I configured a mdl.bat which pointed to the wrong location in the Visual Studio\bin directory. I got it to work now...

Thanks for your help @tomfid and @Administrator.

I won't be in office until tomorrow to try out the tests you recommended. Once I return there, I will test it.

This is the output I get in my cmd-window. Did I do it as you intended?

I have been unsuccessfully trying to configure Vensim DSS 8.0.9 x64 to simulate using the MS Visual Studio 2012 compiler. Here is a screenshot of the error message that is produced: error.png I worry about "The specified configuration type is missing. The tools for the configuration might not b...