

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.
