I strongly recommend using v.2 rather than v.1 -- lots of additional features, plus better error trapping (in cases like this), while having continued support. Plus it is inexpensive.
Meanwhile, I recommend checking the end of the result file for some indication of the problem. Usually if there was no model file, an error was encountered, and there should be a report of that. Although it is better to track down any problem, there may actually a partial model file that you could use. Search for niche.spx then rename it to something else, such as possiblemodels.spx, then try to open it it as a model list in HyperNiche. You would need to find this file ... possibly in the folder with your data, possibly in the folder with the executable files, or elsewhere, depending on you set up HyperNiche.