We would like to inform you that Windows 11 is not currently supported by SOLIDWORKS. While waiting for compatibility to be effective, we advise you to wait to update Windows 11. Official support will be included in one of the upcoming SOLIDWORKS 2022 Service Packs. Until then, we recommend that you continue working with Windows 10 and pass this information on to your IT department.
Especially since it is urgent to wait! After several of my computers received the message (Windows 11 test), the launch of the test gives feedback that the machine would not be compliant (without saying what is wrong).
The problem is that this message arrives even on new or recent machines. So I addressed this problem with two IT experts who told me that it was normal.
Gloupss!! after coming out of syncope!
they told me that it was common with Croq$oft because they define ideal conditions for their OS without worrying too much about the pleultitude of devices and the ultra-multitude of software.
Note that by doing the test they recover all the cases of pseudo incompatibilities for the next versions by ranking the most critical ones and integrating in parallel the incompatibilities of the major publishers such as Solidworks and others.
The big publishers will modify their software marginally (case of old or unorthodox programming or stupid DLLs) or in case of big PB it is Croq$oft who will solve the problem.
This only indicates that it is no longer possible to manage complexity for Croq$oft alone
For Solidworks users, Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing until Solidworks has handled the most glaring incompatibilities, although SW has been testing the Alpha and Beta versions of W11 for a long time
SW won't be rolling out some of W11's very special new features for another year or two. On the other hand, who today will say that W11 will bring to our businesses via SW.
For information, SW2022 works with Win11 (I have a user to whom I did this install to test and it works fine).
But hey, as it's not official, nothing says that there isn't a big problem that we haven't come across yet.
(Only problem noticed directly related to W11 = PDM Search = > Windows Explorer crash.)
Given the very poor stability of the SP0/1/2 versions of SW2022, the incompatibility with W11 is a detail. Let's hope that we will soon have a stable SW2022 compatible with W11.
I think I read that Windows 11 is supported by Dassault from SolidWorks 2022 SP2 but that it is urgent to wait for a more stable version of SP from SolidWorks? https://www.solidworks.com/fr/support/system-requirements
Typically, stable releases are from SP3 onwards. But hey, with SW for years, even the SP5 can have its share of bugs, to the point of releasing a 5.1 in an emergency, so good.
It all depends on whether you can easily change your MS during the year. With us this is not the case so we have been operating for a long time in the n-1 SP5 version (2021SP5 at the moment, we will switch to 2022 at the beginning of 2023).