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Arturiko2023

7 years ago

Solved

Game doesn't launch at all (EASY ANTICHEAT BANNER and closing)

After i hit play in Origin, i see Easy Anti-Cheat banner and then after some couple of seconds it closes and Origin pops up back and it doesn't open the game itself. UPDATE 3: I guess this is i...

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Atmous
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 :/

EA_Blueberry

Community Admin

7 years ago

@TJpek

Try performing a clean boot so it disables all programs that aren't required to run Windows. Once it's up immediately launch the game through Origin. If it's still giving that error, we know it's not a program running in the background causing it.

Here is how to do a clean boot

Arturiko2023

7 years ago

I did it, even reinstalled Origin. No luck. Maybe you can ask Respawn devs - does this game require SSE 4.1 instructions processor to run this game?