Re: Cpu does not have POPCNT! help

@SorenalikeExactly!  The player base plummeted.  EA didn't do anything to improve this game whether on the CPU end or the actual game itself.  EA is a joke.  Who cares about Apex Legends is right.

I have an Intel quad Q9550 with 8GB of RAM and a geforce 1070TI on it and a the best mother of that moment. I play Fortnite at 120 fps at full. My processor is old but is an old Ferrari. Old Ferrari win a lot of new cars. The SSE4.1 instruction requeriment to play APEX basically is discriminate old CPUs that still have great perfomance and can be use with good graphic cards like a 1070TI.

I personally compare and test same games using a PC with a new Core I5 + 1070TI VS Q9550 + 1070TI and there are only 5 or 7 fps of difference. APEX make a big mistake blocking old CPUs. Old doesn't mean it has low performance!!, and ALL the test of games using SSE2 vs the SSE 4.1 demostrate that you dont have any perfomance benefit using SSE 4.1 instead of SSE2.0, some games only have 2FPS of difference on tests using SSE2.0 vs SSE4.1 and is not that's not enough justification to block old but good CPUs.

@Player_mr148lep

We all are still waiting for some news about this as well, but sadly they don't care.☹️

My guess is that EA signed a deal with Intel to not support old CPUs to force us to upgrade.

So just keep playing Fortnite, Dauntless, Overwatch, whatever... until EA decides to finally fix this. Or close servers. Whichever comes sooner :D

@SnowSky1 

The game development community is surprisingly tight, and even within EA we can see a game (Anthem) which added post-launch support to fix this.

So let's hope EA's producers and liaisons to Bioware and Respawn talk to each other about solving this same CPU compatibility issue in Apex Legends.

Until then, we'll be playing Blackout, Firestorm, PUBG, Fortnite, Dauntless, Overwatch, etc. on adequately-spec'd PCs that are affected by this POPCNT issue.

never heard of it...What kind of computer are you using....Tandy 1000?

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