Studio support for Windows 11 ARM

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I’m using a Macbook Pro M3 Max–very high end laptop. I have Parallels Desktop set up with Windows 11, and I allocated 8 processors and 18GB to the vm. Everything is fast and works well in the vm except for Studio. Workflow files are slow to load. When I drag a new activity into the pane, I need to wait a solid 5 seconds before I can edit it. When I type a variable name and then a dot (.), I need to again wait 5 seconds to type anything else while it loads the available methods. It’s very frustrating and borders on unusable.
I read others having similar issues and saw advice to make sure the Studio app and workflow files are all on the local Windows vm drive, not a shared Mac drive, since that can slow it down. I tried this and it did not improve.
Did more research and I see some others have had this issue with Windows 11 ARM (the OS version that macbook M-series can run).

Are there any plans for UiPath to optimize Studio for Windows 11 ARM?
And for those who have a similar setup, is there anything else I can try to improve performance?

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This was not a top priority as we were not aware of such issue. Will try to replicate such setup and see if/how we can improve the experience.

Thanks for your feedback.

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Please keep me updated on this, as it is very important for our organization!
Should I open a ticket to provide more details to your team as needed and to follow progress closer?

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Hello. Our whole organization is moving to ARM based processors since Windows ARM based Laptops are coming out 24Q3. We are heavily developing Automation using UiPath and my only hope is we resolve this soon. Kindly keep us posted.

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Hi Alexandru,

I too am running UiPath Studio in Parallels Windows 11 Pro VM on a Mac Book Pro M2 3.2GHz with 32 GB RAM, and find Studio very slow - specifically for anything the Studio does to the UI, where there are always pauses in the UI reacting to what I do - click, scrolling, etc.

It’s also surprisingly slow at opening a project - creating the workspace, adding dependencies, etc.

Compiling a project seems good, and performance executing the automation is fine (except when in debug, as above, and it stops on a breakpoint)

I’d really like to see this resolved as I am seeing increasing numbers of people opting for the very robust and fast performing new Macs over similar Windows-only machines.

Many thanks
Steve