I know this already has a solution, but it didn't work for me.

The only thing that seems to work is changing the processors/cores to 1. 

I'm on a

Windows 11 Pro

Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H, 2300 Mhz, 14 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s)

Installing in VMware Workstation Pro