VMWare Fusion Player (Personal) - Locked/Bugged to only 1 CPU?

Was helping a friend with his new (Intel) MBP and grabbed him a copy of Fusion Player Personal which is free for non-commercial use. I reviewed system requirements/limitations and didn't see any mention of this but found one or two VMware forum posts where 12.x is bugged?

A net-new Windows 10 install on it was successful, VMTools installed, etc but on a reboot I noted its performance was not acceptable. I had set the machine for 4 vCPU and 8 GB of memory and while the settings reflect that Task Manager (and the performance) are showing only 1 CPU available to Windows.

Rebooted it several times, powered off the VM, powered off the host machine, all without any change.

I jumping in the VM's config and tried setting 2 sockets (and dropping CPU to 2) which also had no impact.

I have Fusion Pro personally and have not experienced this, any suggestions? Is Fusion Player locked to 1 CPU or is something broken?

- 2019 MBP (12.2.1 Monterey) - VMware Fusion 12.x (whatever the latest is) - Windows 10 Home (21H2)