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Fitter stalls on "Advanced Physical Optimization" on Windows 10

We are reluctantly moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have a project that compiles just fine on a Windows 7 Pro machine with an Intel Core i7-3930K CPU using Quartus 19.1 Lite. I copied the proj...
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I had another engineer try to compile this on his machine. It is the exact same version of Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19045 Build 19045), but has an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core CPU. It compiles fine on his computer with Physical Optimization enabled and parallel compilation set to all available processors.

So it does not appear to be a Windows 10 problem. Apparently, Quartus cannot handle a processor with more than a certain number of cores.