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Whxlf

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7 years ago

Apex legends wont launch?

I downloaded it clicked play Screen pops up about something with cheat Then it wont launch Firewall problem?

AbC6640a6883812

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7 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 .....

LyX1n

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7 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.

Atmous
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7 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
- Hochiga_Bachy
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  7 years ago
  it looks like the game is over for us with core2quad cpu
  - th3b3stb34ast
    New Novice
    7 years ago
    I have i5 6600k cpu....
thund3rw0lf
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7 years ago
Probably no.
Same thing happened with Quantum Break. Processors without POPCNT couldnt play it.
There is a way to use Intel SDE to play Quantum Break, I tried it with Apex but it doesnt work
It cant work because of easycheat engine it detects Intel SDE and doesnt let Apex start.
It goes to "Debugger has been detected. Please unload it and try again."
Game over guys ☹️ Not good news if they added the message for unsupported CPU
- otraMx
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  7 years ago
  So i needed to reinstall my PC for the game to launch. I bet there are some files that are corrupted and that is the reason for the game not to launch...