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It doesn't work because your CPU isn't supported by the game.
My CPU is the same as an i5, I can play any game, I also play overwatch on high with 80fps...
And if was because of the CPU at least it could give me an error or something like that.
- 6 years ago
yea becouse i heard that intel 2 quad processor series cant launch the game becouse of the sse4 something . and the worst part is apex seems to not gonna patch this and intel 2 quad processor user cant play it forever .....
- 6 years ago
I just got message for the first time
"CPU does not support POPCNT!"
- 6 years ago
is seems like there is some solution but fps will be real *,found this:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-isa-extensions/topic/699811
- 6 years ago
Will be any way to play the game without the need of buying a new pc? I can't just swap the processor because of the board...
POPCNT isn't necessary at all to run any game, EA could just remove that restricition, it's just an absurd that people with average computers won't play the game.
- 6 years ago
There was an update and it finally implemented an error message.
I got: CPU does not have POPCNT!
I run a q8400...thats it, seems like no Apex for us, who run old CPUs.POPCNT was implemented for Intel CPUs with the first i5/7 processors in 2008 (Nahalem structure).
The wiki article about it (chapter 3.3): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4
It´s a bit of a shame, my CPU is from Q2 2009 but it just has the wrong microstructure :/
I bet POPCNT is just needed for the Anti cheat, the game itself dosn´t care at all about it :D