topic Re: Archicad in ARM on windows ? in Installation & update

Archicad in ARM on windows ?

ROH — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:05:16 GMT

Have someone tried running Archicad using a Snapdragon x Elite-based PC like Galaxy book Edge or Surface pro 11?

Of course, I know that ARM Windows is still unstable for hard working like Archicad, but I'm curious.

Re: Archicad in ARM on windows ?

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:49:12 GMT

ARM Windows 11 is totally stable - where have you read that it is not?

Archicad for Windows is ony available as Intel code... so would be emulated on an ARM Windows machine... assuming all required system resources are available (which I doubt). Due to emulation overhead alone, I can't see this as a viable option.

Re: Archicad in ARM on windows ?

ROH — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:58:34 GMT

Sorry, there was an error in my sentence, I meant to talk about instability for applications running through emulation, not instability for arm windows.
It would be cool if archicad ran on arm windows.

Re: Archicad in ARM on windows ?

BerndSchwarzenbacher — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:00:54 GMT

I got Archicad running through Parallels on a MacBook with M1 chip. So it was possible (like roughly 1 year ago I tried I think) to get it to run on Windows 11 ARM. But it was a hassle and I had to do some dependency installations manually. It was just for testing one of my Add-Ons on Windows when I didn't have immediate access to a Windows Machine. So I can't comment on anything performance wise really, just that it was possible to get it to run.