# Generating GAMESS input files in Avogadro

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/generating-gamess-input-files-in-avogadro/6348>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 5, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/generating-gamess-input-files-in-avogadro/6348 "2024-10-05T14:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_New](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/alex_new/32/2302_2.png) [@Alex\_New](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/Alex_New)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/generating-gamess-input-files-in-avogadro/6348/1 "2024-10-05T14:42:22Z")

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Hallo everyone!  
I am new to Avogadro2. I have found wonderful tutorial with Avogadro at [tutorial](https://qm-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/waterfreq.html).  
So I tried to do it step by step. I am using Windows 11. So I started to install all the programs. I have been getting errors every time about some dll-s missing and so on. It wasn’t easy to get up this step. Now I am stack again. I had installed GAMESS, Gabedit, Avogadro 1.99, MolQueue.  
So I have drew the structure of water. I have optimised it geometry with GAMESS. Now I had to press Input \> GAMESS \> Submit Calculation. So I did it. So small window on top appeared with empty list of “Programs and Queues”. If I press ok it askes to select something from list.  
Next I have added gamess.2023.R1.intel.exe via MolQueue\>Queue Manager\> Add. Next I have entered “gamess”. Soi then I have pressed configure\>programs\>add. So I have inserted path to the .exe file near to “executable” label. Next I pressed Ok. Than I have closed both windows. So I tried repeating steps from the tutorial with no success: I received this small window with empty list of programs and Queues.

So What should I do to fix this issue?

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/generating-gamess-input-files-in-avogadro/6348/2 "2024-10-05T17:47:01Z")

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> [@Alex\_New](#):
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> So I started to install all the programs. I have been getting errors every time about some dll-s missing and so on.

While I don’t know that tutorial, it would be useful to know the particular errors / dll messages, etc. that you saw. Generally these should be fixable. (Noel, who wrote the tutorial did that maybe 10-12 years ago?)

> [@Alex\_New](#):
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> So small window on top appeared with empty list of “Programs and Queues”. If I press ok it askes to select something from list.  
> Next I have added gamess.2023.R1.intel.exe via MolQueue\>Queue Manager\> Add.

This sounds like an issue with MoleQueue. While it’s a great concept, unfortunately, it’s currently unmaintained. (It needs particularly some good documentation and tutorials as you note.)

Since I neither use Windows, nor GAMESS, I’m afraid I can’t help much. My workaround would be to use Avogadro to save the input files and launch GAMESS from the Windows command prompt. I think there’s a GAMESS mailing list at [https://groups.google.com/g/gamess/about?pli=1](https://groups.google.com/g/gamess/about?pli=1)