Platform Designer problem WSL

Hello, I'm trying to migrate an old project, quartus II/15, to the latest quartus standard edition:

Quartus 21.1.0 Build 842

Patches Installed: 0.01std

Previously the project was run and built in Linux. now I'm trying to get it to work under windows 11

Back during quartusII development I used QSys, I see now that that has been changed for Platform Designer. Whenever I try to Generate HDL I get the following issue:

Error: s0: Error during execution of "{C:/intelfpga/21.1/quartus/../nios2eds/Nios II Command Shell.bat} make all 2>> stderr.txt": child process exited abnormally
Error: s0: Execution of command "{C:/intelfpga/21.1/quartus/../nios2eds/Nios II Command Shell.bat} make all 2>> stderr.txt" failed
Error: s0: Nios II Command Shell.bat requires Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run.
Error: s0: Please install WSL and try again.
Error: s0: child process exited abnormally
Error: s0: Cannot find sequencer/sequencer.elf
Error: s0: An error occurred
    while executing
"error "An error occurred""
    (procedure "_error" line 8)
    invoked from within
"_error "Cannot find $seq_file""
    ("if" then script line 2)
    invoked from within
"if {[file exists $seq_file] == 0} {
		_error "Cannot find $seq_file"
	}"
    (procedure "alt_mem_if::util::seq_mem_size::get_max_memory_usage" line 14)
    invoked from within
"alt_mem_if::util::seq_mem_size::get_max_memory_usage [file join "sequencer" "sequencer.elf""
    invoked from within
"set calc_mem_size [alt_mem_if::util::seq_mem_size::get_max_memory_usage [file join "sequencer" "sequencer.elf"]]"
    ("if" then script line 2)
    invoked from within
"if { !$do_only_rw_mgr_mc && !($bfm_mode || $hps_mode)} {
		set calc_mem_size [alt_mem_if::util::seq_mem_size::get_max_memory_usage [file join "sequenc..."
    (procedure "generate_qsys_sequencer_sw" line 943)
    invoked from within
"generate_qsys_sequencer_sw $prepend_str $protocol $pre_compile_dir $fileset $inhdl_dir $rdimm $lrdimm 0 0  $nios_hex_file_name $ac_rom_init_file_name ..."
    invoked from within
"set seq_mem_size_list [generate_qsys_sequencer_sw $prepend_str $protocol $pre_compile_dir $fileset $inhdl_dir $rdimm $lrdimm 0 0  $nios_hex_file_name ..."
    ("if" else script line 2)
    invoked from within
"if {[::alt_mem_if::util::qini::qini_value alt_mem_if_seq_size_request 0] > 0} {
		set seq_mem_size [::alt_mem_if::util::qini::qini_value alt_mem_if_se..."
    (procedure "alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_qsys_sequencer" line 238)
    invoked from within
"alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_qsys_sequencer "${name}" $protocol $tmpdir $fileset {}"
    invoked from within
"set qsys_sequencer_files_list [alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_qsys_sequencer "${name}" $protocol $tmpdir $fileset {}]"
    (procedure "alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_sequencer_files" line 3)
    invoked from within
"alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_sequencer_files $name "DDR3" $tmpdir QUARTUS_SYNTH"
    invoked from within
"foreach generated_file [alt_mem_if::gen::uniphy_gen::generate_sequencer_files $name "DDR3" $tmpdir QUARTUS_SYNTH] {
		set file_name [file tail $genera..."
    (procedure "generate_synth" line 8)
    invoked from within
"generate_synth soc_system_mem_if_ddr3_emif_0_s0"
Error: Generation stopped, 253 or more modules remaining
Error: qsys-generate failed with exit code 1: 8 Errors, 8 Warnings

I see that I'm not the only one with this issue, and I've tried different solutions.

1) Tried installing the patch:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/programmable/articles/000088789.html

2) Tried running while WSL is disabled

3) Tried installing Ubuntu and some packages (saw this 'solution' in another post)

It's a fresh Quartus installation, I can use WSL fine from terminal