Creative Cloud Doesn't Show All Of My Apps For Installation

Report · Nov 22, 2019

My Creative Cloud account is for all apps. I've been running it on my old computer for years. I just bought a new Surface Pro X and attempted to install all apps. When I download Creative Cloud it only populates about 16 of the apps and I've had no success figuring out how to get the rest of the apps to populate. I'm able to install the apps that are there like Bridge and Photoshop. No error messages and the installed apps run fine. But I need Premiere Pro and After Effects and those are two of the apps that don't populate.

I completely uninstalled everything and ran the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool and started over with the same result.

I tried contacting tech support via the chat line and they were of no help at all.

Has anyone come across this or any ideas how to resolve this?

Report · Nov 22, 2019

jimclark1947, Hello.
Surface Pro X seems to be equipped with a different CPU called MicrosoftSQ1, and there seems to be difficulty in running x64 (for the current Intel / AMD64 bit processor) apps.
That may be the cause.
* I saw a net article about the fact that Premiere Pro and After Effects could not be executed.

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/surface-pro-x-arm-app-compatibility

Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements

For example, the Mac has moved from PowerPC to Intel.
In this regard, Microsoft expects hardware and OS updates to be able to run x64 apps, and Adobe expects updates to work on ARM-based CPUs in the future ...

Report · Nov 23, 2019

Yes, unfortunately I didn't realize this before purchasing. My old Surface Pro 4 ran everything just like any other computer. When Microsoft came out with the new Pro X I assumed it was just a better design. It operates in what they call S Mode and is limited to running only apps from the Microsoft Store. If you take it out of S Mode then it will only run 32 bit apps. This is not good.

Report · Jan 17, 2020

Hello,

Anyone know or have an idea when Adobe plan to update the Apps for surface pro x?

Thank you for your answer.

Report · Jan 17, 2020

Adobe won't downgrade their apps so they run on the Surface Pro X. One day, the Surface Pro X might be upgraded to be good enough for the Adobe apps. But Microsoft have not said when this might happen. Here is a Microsoft article about the limitations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-pro-arm-app-performance You need to be VERY aware of these weird rules when you buy apps... most high end apps are not compatible because they switched to 64 bits (because Microsoft recommended it!)

Report · Nov 23, 2019

Wow, Microsoft make a new PC that runs 32 bit apps but doesn’t run most 64 bit apps? What planet are they on? Clearly unsuitable for Pro use.