STK (Systems Tool Kit) by Ansys/AGI crashes on launch - Parallels 26 / MacBook Pro M5 / Windows 11 A

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    STK (Systems Tool Kit) by Ansys/AGI crashes on launch - Parallels 26 / MacBook Pro M5 / Windows 11 ARM
    Hi everyone,
    I am trying to run AGI STK (Systems Tool Kit) inside a Windows 11 virtual machine on Parallels Desktop 26, on a MacBook Pro with Apple M5 chip. STK crashes silently every time a new scenario is created, before any user interaction is possible.
    Here is my setup:
    ∙ Mac: MacBook Pro, Apple M5
    ∙ Parallels Desktop: version 26 (latest)
    ∙ Guest OS: Windows 11 ARM (Home and Pro, both tested)
    ∙ STK versions tested: 12.9.1, 12.10.1 -- all crash identically
    The Windows Event Viewer shows the following error on every crash:
    ∙ Faulting application: AgUiApplication.exe
    ∙ Faulting module: AgGx3dScene.dll
    ∙ Exception code: 0xc0000005 (Access Violation)
    This is clearly a rendering/GPU issue. STK uses legacy OpenGL for its 3D scene engine.
    Workarounds already attempted without success:
    ∙ Enabled "Use software rendering" in STK Preferences > General > Graphics
    ∙ Disabled GPU Accelerated Analysis
    ∙ Set AgUiApplication.exe to "Power saving" in Windows graphics settings
    ∙ Launched STK with -softwareRendering flag (not recognized in STK 12.10)

    Anyone any help? Thank you in advance
     

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