New Mac - Arm64 download prompt in Cursor

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Hey ya’ll - just bought a new m4 macbook pro; i did the migration from my old macbook, so Cursor was ported over nicely.

However, when opening the project it showed a prompt that said “you’re running an emulated version of Cursor, want to download an Arm64 version that’s built for this chipset?”

The link takes me to download a new version of VScode on the official website, which looks like a zipped Visual Studio Code.app install file.

Is it recommended to do this? I also see a native update prompt on Cursor, which I’m more apt to click. Just don’t want to mess anything up.

thanks in advance

edit–
I updated cursor to .45.11
Looks like when i build the dev file it’s downloading an arm64 package?

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Well shieet. Guessing I need to download it.

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Alrighty - ChatGPT helped me figure this one out. Feel free to close the thread and leave it up for anyone else who might be wondering.

If anyone else faces this issue, here’s the steps that fixed it:

  • Download and install the new VSCode version (just place the app file into the Applications folder).
  • Restart Cursor
  • The error I was getting was related to Prisma, so I needed to update my schema.prisma file to add this:
generator client {
  provider      = "prisma-client-js"
  binaryTargets = ["native", "darwin-arm64"]
}
  • Then regenerate Prisma in the command line:
npx prisma generate
  • Kill then Restart the dev server:
npm run dev
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Why does installing vscode fix this issue ?

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Curious about how that fixes the issue too.

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Have been getting the same message when running Cursor on my Mac and will try this, but also curious what the issue actually is and why we need to go through these steps.