I have had the same inability to load the game.
After trying all the software fixes Google AI thought could help, it turns out my old but powerful Workstation Video Editing machine (Xeon - Sandy Bridge EP architecture), is not compatible with EA's AVX2 instruction set (in Season 4 - 3 was still using it).
Unless EA do a patch to support AVX and not just AVX2, I'll need to buy a newer computer, or PS5 to carry on playing skate. Which I'm not going to do! Probably for the better, I love this game and it's taking up way too much of my time!
Yeah, I got the same confirmation from both ChatGPT and Gemini. I was just using this build to push the hardware to its limits with Skate, as it still runs perfectly fine otherwise paired with a 1660 Ti. If this patch marks the end of the line for Sandy Bridge chips running this game, that’s totally fine—I'll just swap over to my other build. It just would have been nice if they explicitly mentioned dropping legacy CPU/AVX support in the patch notes.
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