However, it would be great if the Dial team would investigate why your software is not running on Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview on ARM when the 圆4 versions of Relux and CAD for example, run perfectly. Nor do not believe that Dialux should develop a specific version for ARM, especially when it appears the future of Windows is towards a 'One Windows' direction where Windows does the work and we, the user, don't have to wait for every dev team to create a specific version of their software for ARM, x86 or 圆4. Thanks to Parallels, the venerable Apple virtual machine software company, the Windows 10 for ARM preview will run on an M1 Mac with surprisingly workable performance. While a native Mac version of Dialux would be amazing, I know it's not in the pipeline. Perhaps this is the reason that Dialux will not open in Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview on an ARM processor yet Relux performs flawlessly. But it is my understanding that there is a compatibility issue between Direct X and Metal on M1 processors that Parallels have yet to overcome.

Our test machine has 32GB of RAM and is running the (at the time of writing) latest version of macOS Monterey. I have very limited knowledge of hardware acceleration like Direct X (Windows) and Metal (Mac). We tested Parallels Desktop 18 (Pro Edition) on a 16-inch 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Max processor, so everything you read below is relevant to the new ARM-based Apple Silicon processors. Every program I have downloaded works, including Relux and Autocad - all except Dialux. The best bit is that through some kind of emulation (magic) built in to Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview, the vast majority of native 圆4 Windows programs just work. Mac users including myself have been using VM's to run Dialux on Intel 圆4 Mac's for years. This new insider Windows build made it possible for Mac users with M1 ARM processors to once again install a full version of Windows on their Mac's using a virtual machine like Parallels.

I believe Microsoft's vision is to eventually have just Windows, not Windows on X64, Windows on x86 and Windows on ARM. Microsoft recently (late 2021) updated Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview to natively run on ARM processors. Here is a summary of what I believe the issue is and a bit more detail from my limited understanding of the tech.

Parallels on m1 macs