diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-pr.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-pr.yaml
index 5550acf162..6cc2ab1f48 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-pr.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-pr.yaml
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ jobs:
 
             - name: Install scala
               if: ${{ contains(matrix.fixture, 'scala3') }}
-              uses: VirtusLab/scala-cli-setup@main
-            - run: echo '@main def hello() = println("We need this spam print statement for bloop to exit correctly...")' | scala-cli _
+              uses: VirtusLab/scala-cli-setup@v1.15.0
+            - run: echo '@main def hello() = println("Warm up the Scala compilation server")' | SCALA_CLI_EXTRA_TIMEOUT=2min scala-cli _
               if: ${{ contains(matrix.fixture, 'scala3') }}
 
             - name: Install Elixir
@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ jobs:
                   otp-version: "26.0"
 
             - run: QUICKTEST=true FIXTURE=${{ matrix.fixture }} npm run test:fixtures
+              env:
+                  CPUs: ${{ contains(matrix.fixture, 'scala3') && '2' || '0' }}
 
     test-complete:
         if: ${{ cancelled() || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled') || contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
diff --git a/test/fixtures/scala3-upickle/run.sh b/test/fixtures/scala3-upickle/run.sh
index 7707d38414..34aa69ba6b 100755
--- a/test/fixtures/scala3-upickle/run.sh
+++ b/test/fixtures/scala3-upickle/run.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-scala-cli upickle.scala TopLevel.scala
+SCALA_CLI_EXTRA_TIMEOUT="${SCALA_CLI_EXTRA_TIMEOUT:-2min}" scala-cli run upickle.scala TopLevel.scala
diff --git a/test/fixtures/scala3/run.sh b/test/fixtures/scala3/run.sh
index ff6223e387..2869cbe170 100755
--- a/test/fixtures/scala3/run.sh
+++ b/test/fixtures/scala3/run.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-scala-cli circe.scala TopLevel.scala
+SCALA_CLI_EXTRA_TIMEOUT="${SCALA_CLI_EXTRA_TIMEOUT:-2min}" scala-cli run circe.scala TopLevel.scala