Windows 11 on ARM (Snapdragon) - PropTool and FTDI Drivers
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I picked up a new Microsoft Surface Pro 11 this week. The first issue I ran into was, the FTDI driver is not installed by default like it was on other versions of Windows. Also, you cannot use the driver that comes with PropellerTool or the one provided by Parallax on it. You must install the ARM64 version driver from FTDI. Once you download it, you will need to copy the ARM64 folder to someplace on your machine, such as the Desktop. Open device manager and find the USB device under "Other Devices". Right Click and update the driver. Select "Browse My Computer for Drivers". Browse to the ARM64 folder and install.
The second issue you will have is, PropellerTool will crash after installation. Open the troubleshooter and walk through the process. You will have to go two screens deep to find Propeller Tool as the program you want to troubleshoot. It will set your compatibility setting and then it will run.
Here are my settings:
Hope that helps someone else.
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Nice to know. Guess should work for P1 too then.
I'm curious if the NPU on the surface helps with anything useful...
@Rayman apparently it is used when performing searches / using copilot. That search feature has broken my ability to quicky find files based on filename though.