I have a brand new install of Automation Studio 4.12.4.107 with a commercial site license on a Windows 10 machine. I have made multiple attempts to create a simple project but can never get to the point where I can simulate. The Arsim Startup dialog simply says: “BR Automation Runtime B4.93 booti…

OK. It looks like the root cause was Windows Defender Firewall. I haven’t absolutely verified this, but I’m confident. On the new VM, when ar000.exe starts, Defender pops up a dialog to allow ar000.exe to open ports. On all other machines I’ve tried, the dialog never appears. I’ve seen this dia…

Here are some things I like to try when I run into ARSim issues: Make sure that you only have one Automation Studio project open. If you have multiple simulation projects open at the same time, multiple instances of ARSim can start and this doesn’t always work out well. End the ar000.exe task …

I’ve tried your items 1 through 7 multiple times with no luck. Essentially, step 8 never happens. The runtime never finishes booting, so the target never enters RUN mode and nothing can be transferred. I tried creating a brand new project with a Standard PC target and saw the same result. Simula…

Are there any notable messages in the console? The newest messages are located at the bottom. [2023-12-19_15.26.08]

Create empty project only with hw or simulation PC without any tasks Make sure that you have started your AS as admin. Try different version of AR.

To answer your earlier question, simulation is already included in Automation Studio. It will time out every 2 hours and you’ll have to restart it. There is a license you can get which removes this timeout, but that is the only thing you’d need a license for. Do you have any antivirus software on y…

The netstat tool shows nothing listening on port 11169 and periodic output like this: TCP 127.0.0.1:52444 MK0AL92H:11169 SYN_SENT [PviMan.exe] So, the PVI Manager is attempting to connect, but nothing appears to be listening. What process should be listening on that port? I se…

You will want to look at the AR000.exe for port bindings. Open the Task Manager (right-click Start menu > Task Manager). Go to the Details tab. Find AR000.exe, and look for the number under the PID (Process ID) column. In the example below, this is 23172. [image] Open an Administrator …

AR000.exe is showing zero connected addresses or ports: [image]

Arsim fails to boot

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Jim_Sculley (Jim Sculley) December 20, 2023, 1:00pm 7

I’m an admin on the machine. I’ve created an empty project using the StandardPC hardware, with AR B4.93, G4.93 and H4.93. Same result every time:

AR never finishes booting, and target remains OFFLINE and never enters RUN state.

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Arsim fails to boot

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