AMD Phenom Crash to Desktop after choosing training or matchmaking :(

Who said anything about ignoring. Blueberry which is the community manager representative of EA already replied. He said there won't be a fix. Period. Either upgrade your pcs if you can afford it or play another game if you can't plain and simple. I know I will.

I don't trust a community manager to give us a fair shake. 

They didn't say *. They basically said hey why dont you all go * yourselves? 

If I can play all new games coming out at 60fps 1080p why am I not able to play this? 

If so many other devs are able to fix this SSE 4.1 issue why is Respawn not willing to rewrite some code? 

I will wait for an official @respawn response, not some community manager

Back at it again to check in on this problem 

Someone remind EA that they need an ocean of potatoes to keep the whales happy.

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On Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/ancth2/a_large_portion_of_amd_users_cant_launch_the_game/

"Jayfresh_Respawn: I'm sending this to the team. Sorry for those having issues and I'll send update as soon as I have it."

Nerd Mag:

https://www.thenerdmag.com/apex-legends-is-not-supported-by-amd-phenom/

"This particular AMD phenom processor is actually still capable of handling modern games at decent fps granted that it is supplemented by a decent GPU which in this case is a GTX 1060. it is not certain right now whether EA will release a patch to fix this issue which I think is completely plausible since the issue is not strictly related to the processor itself but the game’s inability to deliver an SSE instruction that is readable by this particular processor."

Gamestar.de (Gamestar is a popular German game magazine/site):

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/apex-legends-stuerzt-mit-phenom-ii-cpus-ab,3340365.html

"...models with four cores and 3.2 GHz but still have enough power for many current titles, if a halfway current graphics card is in the PC. This also applies to (real) six-cores or some of the cheaper Athlon II X4 models. Also, listed at least AMD FX 4350 or Intel Core i3 6300 (some older Core 2 models from the 7000/8000 series already support SSE 4.1 and therefore should work, contrary to the system requirements anyway) as a minimum requirement.

New games with older CPUs without SSE 4.1 sometimes do not work, this has happened over the years, but sometimes this is fixed by the developers with a patch in retrospect. Apex Legends has not announced a fix for Phenom or Athlon CPUs so far - but the more owners of a corresponding CPU keep reporting it, the more likely this will be."

www.heise.de (another German site):

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Apex-Legends-10-Millionen-Spieler-Probleme-mit-aelteren-AMD-Prozessoren-4302368.html

"With regard to the PC version, reports of crashes with processors of the AMD Phenom II, Athlon II or older series rapidly increased in the user forums. These processors do not support the Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1 (SSE 4.1) extension instruction set used by the game Apex Legends. EA confirmed in the forum that Apex Legends is not running on such processors at the moment. For liquid 60 fps, the developer recommends at least one core i5-3570K, 8 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290."

(Not sure about you, but my PC destroys that ^ "liquid 60fps" developer recommended spec. Too bad I'm locked out of gameplay).

Some other articles and comments in other languages too, plus @VinceZampella responding on Twitter, looking into it.

 STAY FROSTY, STAY HOPEFUL!

Vince zampella doesn't responded. He just asked what cause the crash end never returned any reply on tiwitter

Hopefully as long as we keep asking them, keep up the pressure on Twitter, Reddit and other social media platforms, they will fix it eventually. 

These are hundreds of people not only wanting to play the game, but love it and support it with their wallet. 

We just don't want to upgrade our CPU which still runs modern and new games for this one single game. It's not worth over 200 euro's or dollars of upgrades. 

I think I'ill write to Tech Jesus at Gamers Nexus about it.

You guys should too. Lately He was revisiting old processors and how they handle new games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9EMlxdCrM one of videos). Guys at Science Studio, Hardware Unboxed like that kind of content too.  Maybe Paul's Hardware and Bitwit will take a bite.

Good mobilization, folks!

Eventually we'll reach a visibility threshold online where somebody's going to prioritize this.