Quartus Prime Installer Crashes on ARM64EC — Any Plans for Native ARM Support?

[D1302]

Hi Intel team and community,

I'm trying to install Quartus Prime on a Windows 11 ARM64 device. The installer  crashes consistently during initialization. I captured a crash dump and analyzed it using WinDbg.

Here’s a summary of the crash:

• Exception Code: 0xC0000374 (Heap Corruption)
• Faulting Module: msvcrt.dll!_msize
• Works fine on Intel  machines

Stack trace shows the crash occurs during CRT shutdown, possibly in atexit/onexit handlers. This may be due to a missing or incompatible DLL or an emulation issue.

My questions:

1. Are there any known compatibility issues with Quartus Prime on ARM64EC devices?
2. Is Intel planning to release a native ARM64 or ARM64EC version of Quartus Prime for Windows?
3. Are there any workarounds or supported configurations for ARM-based development environments?

Thanks in advance!

[RichardTanSY_Altera]

Sorry for the late reply. To answer your question:

Unfortunately, Quartus is not officially supported on Windows 11 ARM64 or ARM64EC, and there is no known plan to support unless there is a strong business justification.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683472/25-1/minimum-hardware-requirements.html

You may try installing using the .tar file instead of the installer. That said, please note that while you can attempt to install it on unsupported hardware, you do so at your own risk, and technical support will not be available.

Regards,

Richard Tan

[AdamH241]

This is really disappointing. The "supported OS" says Windows 11, which my machine is running that I bought specifically for my college class that uses this software. It says nothing about ARM vs. Intel, although I guess I get why you folks don't want to support non-Intel hardware.

[RichardTanSY_Altera]

Hi,

Do you have any further inquiries regarding this case? 

Regards,

Richard Tan