Assistance Required – FDS-SMV 6.11.0 Installation Issues

[riyapa688]

We are currently evaluating and packaging FDS-SMV 6.11.0 for Windows for deployment within our organization and have encountered several issues during installation and validation.
Issues Observed

FDS executable fails to launch

After a successful installation, attempting to open fds.exe results in the following error:

"The code execution cannot proceed because impi.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."

No product version information

The executable located at:
C:\Program Files\firemodels\FDS6\bin\fds.exe

does not contain any Product Version, File Version, Product Name, or other version metadata in the Windows file properties.

No registry information

We are unable to find a registry entry containing product/version information that can be used to validate the installation.
We also do not see a reliable uninstall registry key being created for detection purposes.

Software packaging concerns

Since neither registry entries nor executable version information are available, it is difficult for us to create an enterprise deployment and detection method for the application.

Questions

Is the impi.dll file expected to be installed as part of the standard FDS-SMV 6.11.0 installation?
Is there an additional package, dependency, or MPI runtime that must be installed separately?
Are there any post-installation configuration steps required for FDS to function correctly?
Is there a recommended registry key, file, or version identifier that customers can use to validate installations?
Could you please provide the recommended installation and deployment procedure for enterprise environments?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

[Er9y714]

Are you using CMDfds shortcut created by FDS installation? Are you using fds_local command to run the simulation?

Did you install the FDS installation file with Admin rights? Have you restarted afterwards for PATH to be updated?

[mcgratta]

Make sure that the file impi.dll was installed:

Then make sure that you use the command fds_local within the CMDfds window. More details are in the User's Guide.

[riyapa688]

Make sure that the file impi.dll was installed:

Then make sure that you use the command `fds_local` within the `CMDfds` window. More details are in the User's Guide.

Yes this all files are present there. I have used admin rights for installation.

[Er9y714]

Try adding this line to Environmental Variables for Your Account or System Varibles> PATH

C:\Program Files\firemodels\FDS6\bin\fds\mpi

Then restart/log out and in in Windows

[drjfloyd]

@riyapa688 since the files are there, make sure to use CMDfds window which should have been placed on your desktop to run FDS and run with fds_local per the User's Guide. If you don't see a CMDfds on your desktop, then after opening a command prompt window, run C:\Program Files\firemodels\FDS6\bin\fdsinit.bat. This sets up the required environment to run fds.