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Phantasm_7's avatar
Phantasm_7
7 years ago

AMD Phenom Crash Cheapest Solution - SSE4.1 & SSSE3 Error Fix

TLDR: If you have an AM3+ motherboard, your best option is an FX-8350 processor. I can play Apex Legends with no problems on mine. Currently $59 new and shipped on eBay. https://rover.ebay.com/rover...
limitlessworlds's avatar
limitlessworlds
7 years ago
Thank you for providing this very useful article! I am recommending this now to a friend of mine who is experiencing this same issue with a AMD Phenom II X4 960T Processor
Phantasm_7's avatar
Phantasm_7
7 years ago

@rewardingwalnut @limitlessworlds Glad this was helpful to both of you. I'd love to upgrade to Ryzen as I'm sure you would. For now this is the economical solution for a more capable CPU.

  • Phantasm_7's avatar
    Phantasm_7
    7 years ago
    If anyone is wondering, the FX-8350 is capable of running Apex Legends on maxed out settings at around 60 FPS it seems. Other than "Texture Streaming Budget" which is more or less the texture quality setting. That is almost entirely dependent on your GPU to my knowledge and I only run it on the 4GB setting because that is what my GTX 970 can handle.
    I tend to turn down or off a lot of settings for visibility and performance reasons and see well over 60 FPS constant and more like 80-110 in many situations. I'd have to do full tests to 100% confirm all this, but that's just from watching my FPS. Since most of use Phenom II users were obviously budget gamers, I doubt most of us are rocking 144Hz monitors anyways!
    Obviously your FPS is highly dependent on your GPU, but the CPU can certainly be a bottleneck. I do suspect even a Phenom II 1100T would struggle to allow the game to achieve a constant 60 FPS even with a powerful GPU. It always struggled for me in BFV and I have seen a solid improvement there. Processor links in the first post are all still good. GLHF!
    • Sorenalike's avatar
      Sorenalike
      7 years ago

      yeah not really a solution .. you pay the money and next year another game comes out and doesn't support this one ... and from what heard those series also crash most of the time

      • st4lk3r00's avatar
        st4lk3r00
        7 years ago

        I upgrade my pc when its needs, Not by a corporation's policies. Phenom 1090t is valuable then An ordinary game. Thank you for your advice but it's unreasonable, after YOUR adviced upgrade maybe we can able to play THİS game. What about new games? If EA demands another sse variant so we have to upgrade AGAİN? No Way!

        EA making a great mistakes here.

        1. Phenom and other old!!! cpu users will be in hesitation when buy new EA games. Because one question will be ask "will it run due to EA's sse or other policies?"

        2. Second problem is users trust on EA, falling apart. Hitman 2 didn't start games first day of launch with phenom cpus, but it fixed in 24 hours. EA still didn't fix this problem so if you buy new EA games you propably will wait, how long -God Knows. Maybe forever.

        3. This game is a newer copy of old battle royale games. So if you are not play this game you don't have to worry. You are not missing something (I have two pc one new other old phenom i can play one of it). So EA in a long time period EA will need new gamers to keep gaming a popular title. But this old cpu owner won't there.

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