Stardraw Design 7.4 is a Windows Forms .NET 9.0 application and requires Windows 10 or higher to run. We fully support running it on Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M4) under Parallels, and we run it that way ourselves.

Both an x64 and a native ARM64 executable are installed. With the default settings, Stardraw Design 7.4 installs to:

C:\Program Files\Stardraw.com Ltd\Stardraw Design 7.4

The shortcut added to your Task Bar or Desktop points at Stardraw Design 7.exe, which is the x64 version. Installed alongside it is Stardraw Design 7 ARM64.exe — the natively compiled ARM64 version. For convenience, we recommend adding a shortcut to that executable to your Task Bar or Desktop.

How to tell which version you are running. When you are running the ARM64 version, the title of the application has (ARM64) appended to it. As a final verification, open Task Manager in Windows, go to the Details section, find the Stardraw Design 7.4 ARM64 entry, and confirm that the Architecture column shows Arm64. (If the Architecture column is not shown, right-click the column headings and select it.)

What to expect from performance. The difference between the x64 and ARM64 versions will vary depending on your processor, free memory, disk speed, and the size of your project. Apple Silicon emulates x64 instructions remarkably well, and Windows itself is compiled natively for Arm64, so even when running the x64 version most of the time is still spent executing native Arm64 instructions. Your results may vary — we would be interested to hear about your experience at techsupport@stardraw.com.