Apex legends wont launch?

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.

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 

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

just finished with that update but i got no message saying that cpu thing and i still can't play the game

I3-7100

Same here. Since the update today the game is not launching. Something is wrong with this update...

I can't launch the game after 860 mb update.

I am unable to play the game since the last update. It crashes after the easy anti cheat finishes loading and the splash screen plays.
I have 60 hours playtime GFX drivers up to date. 980ti 16GB RAM & i7-7700k.
Repaired Game Files. Moved files over to another drive. Changed game language. Ran every other exe as admin or not as admin. Repaired EAC.
Nothing is working.

I experienced this issue the other day briefly and a restart fixed it. However this is different. No error message and now nothing is working in regards to Apex.

it looks like the game is over for us with core2quad cpu