Game boot up problem
Ever since the season 4 update, my game doesn't boot up anymore. It just either brings up the game loader before going to a black screen and then crashing. Or the same followed by a black screen that...
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Appreciate the tip missMoshie! Unfortunately, clearing the cache data out of %localappdata% won't solve this specific startup crash.
The issue for anyone running an i7-2600 (or other Gen 2/Gen 3 Intel chips and Xeons from that era) is a hard instruction set limitation introduced with the Season 4 update. The new patch requires AVX2 support, which these older CPU architectures physically lack, resulting in an immediate illegal instruction crash (0xC000001D) at boot. It's a bummer, but it looks like Season 4 marks the end of the road for these legacy chips unless EA decides to roll back the optimization requirements.
That's really rough, lets hope they do 🤞