I have a Mac Mini with the original ARM-based M1 chip. Oh, and you can generate your own Windows 11 ARM64 ISOs now too, just like Parallels does. Also see this post that clarifies Microsoft’s licensing for Windows for ARM64.

For the same amount, get a monster gaming laptop, much uglier and less elegant than any Mac, and you can work.: Feel free to read through this post and then check out the new follow-up post that compares the latest versions of Parallels and VMware Fusion. Your software combo does not work on the Mac. the coming Mac OS Enscape was already mentioned, TwinMotion is also close by, but missing the hardware support, it is probably not there yet, and don't hold your breath for Lumion being native. Any mid to high spec Intel or AMD based gaming laptop with good multi GB RAM video system will be perfectly suited for your software combo.Ĭonversely, if you want to work on the Mac, then, with the exception of Archicad that is native, but not yet for the M1, the rest of the combo will also have to be Mac native. Your intended software combo is definitely not suited for Macs, especially not M1 Macs. you should decide what software you want/need to use, and then check the hardware/OS combo that works best. Is there a reason you are not simply running AC 25 under MacOS Monterey? I doubt seriously that Graphisoft will expend any resources trying to get a Windows version to run on ARM chips. We will be waiting for many months for a native M1 version of ARCHICAD for MacOS as it is. You could see if you can find an ARM version of that library/subsystem on a Microsoft site, install it manually, and then try to install ARCHICAD again just in case it recognizes the ARM version during installation. That said, the ARCHICAD installer, being written only for Intel, would be looking for the Intel version of VCRedist.

The error message seems to indicate that the Visual C redistributable subsystem cannot be installed on ARM Windows. While Windows 10 or 11 for ARM (vs Intel) support a virtualization of some Intel apps and code - they cannot fully support any arbitrary Intel Windows program. As you know, on an Apple ARM processor (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max etc) - Parallels cannot run an Intel version of Windows - only the ARM version (which Microsoft has stated it has no intent of offering as an OS to the general public for such purposes - limiting the usefulness of Parallels Desktop on M1 chips). Hi actually surprised that you got as far as the error message that you show.

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