64 bit emulator surface pro x

Hi DomFriant, thanks for you advice with the Pro 7. I probably should have done more reserach. Actually I wanted a reliable mobile device, where I can use Office Applications also. I choose the Pro X because of the bigger screen. Now I am doing a further education in SQL. For this I wanted the SQL server. Not to run an app permanently. So I hoped that at least the lite version would run on the Pro X. I did not expect, that so many apps did not run on the flagship surface. But ok, hard learning:-) Lets see how is going with windows 11. I am also in the insider group, but I was nevertheless not able to run SQL server on my Pro X...

Hi, as I said in my previous comment, I hope what I wrote didn't come across as condescending. I really was just wondering if you had seen or read somewhere that someone said it should work, only to find out later (after you made the purchase) that it doesn't. Now that I'm on a dev insiders build I tried it myself as well and it had errors during the install. I have no idea if Microsoft will update SQL to allow it to run, but I suspect it might be awhile if they do.

I don't know your current technical knowledge, but alternatives might be to try to install SQL Server in WSL (windows subsystem for linux) as a docker container. I'm not 100% if this will work without trying it myself, but docker at least natively supports ARM64, and WSL is included in Windows 10/11 ARM edition (which is awesome!). I don't think the linux version of Microsoft SQL server would install directly (without docker) in a WSL distribution as it appears to only support Intel 64-bit same as the windows version. I'm not sure about the docker image, and I haven't found anything specific to it. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then nevermind :)

Windows has 35million programs and Microsoft store has over 600,000 apps. Please share how many programs/apps don't run on the SPX?

Hi DomFriant, thanks for you advice with the Pro 7. I probably should have done more reserach. Actually I wanted a reliable mobile device, where I can use Office Applications also. I choose the Pro X because of the bigger screen. Now I am doing a further education in SQL. For this I wanted the SQL server. Not to run an app permanently. So I hoped that at least the lite version would run on the Pro X. I did not expect, that so many apps did not run on the flagship surface. But ok, hard learning:-) Lets see how is going with windows 11. I am also in the insider group, but I was nevertheless not able to run SQL server on my Pro X...

I too tried the pre-beta, Dev version and so far all my apps work and work fine.

Of note, you will want to uninstall office and reinstall the 64bit version. That said, the 32bit version worked fine too.

Everything ported over smoothly. Fingers crossed, but haven't seen any incompatibilities yet.

Well I took the plunge and switched my device to the insiders testing on the dev channel and upgraded the OS.

I actually don't have any productivity apps I need to use on it, so I tried a few 64-bit games instead. I found one issue that the x64 emulation at the moment can't get around, and that is if the app itself checks the architecture when it loads. For example, games that use Epic Games Unreal engine start to run and then throw an "unsupported architecture" message like this one:

I don't don't know if there is anything Microsoft can do about that, so it might be up to the developer. Honestly I'm not sure why Epic decided to put this check in, as doing some searching it seems it's come out since the x64 emulation arrived. I've seen posts about this from people using Windows on ARM devices like the Pro X, as well as Mac users with a device using Apple's new M1 processor running Windows in a virtual machine. I may file a support ticket with Epic asking for a way to ignore or bypass this check. Hopefully there won't be many apps like this.