Fresh install blinking cursor / underscore on Hyper-V

Downloading openSUSE-Tumbleweed-GNOME-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20211111-Media.iso now. Estimated time is going between 2 hours and 3 hours.
Once it’s downloaded and booted, is there anything specific I should do?

While looking at memory settings on the VM, I noticed it was only assigned 1 core, so I upped that to 4 and tried to boot with nomodeset, it now says “[FAILED] Failed to start X Display Manager.” above the blinking cursor. Went back to 1 core, blinking cursor by itself. Up to 2 cores with nomodeset, Failed. Still 2 cores but with default boot options, blinking cursor by itself.