May 2019
@Zerox50hI have a few rigs with the Core 2 Quad architecture. Very capable CPU's. I have the Q9550, X3363, Q9450, X3323. However, I cant play Apex Legends with any of them. It's a shame they wont patch POPCNT.
June 2019 - last edited June 2019
Sir, I have an Intel quad Q9550 with 8GB of RAM and a geforce 1070TI on it and a the best mother of that moment. I play Fortnite at 120 fps at full. My processor is old but is an old Ferrari. Old Ferrari win a lot of new cars. The SSE4.1 instruction requeriment to play APEX basically is discriminate old CPUs that still have great perfomance and can be use with good graphic cards like a 1070TI.
I personally compare and test same games using a PC with a new Core I5+1070TI VS Q9550+1070TI and there are only 5 of difference. APEX make a big mistake blocking old CPUs. Old doesn't mean it has low performance!!, and ALL the test of games using SSE2 vs the SSE 4.1 demostrate that you dont have any perfomance benefit using SSE 4.1 instead of SSE2.0, some games only have 2FPS of difference on tests using SSE2.0 vs SSE4.1 and is not that's not enough justification to block old but good the CPUs.
June 2019 - last edited June 2019
Sir, I have an Intel quad Q9550 with 8GB of RAM and a geforce 1070TI on it and a the best mother of that moment. I play Fortnite at 120 fps at full. My processor is old but is an old Ferrari. Old Ferrari win a lot of new cars. The SSE4.1 instruction requeriment to play APEX basically discriminate olds CPUs that still have great perfomance and can be use with good graphic cards like a 1070TI.
I personally compare and test same games using a PC with a new Core I5+1070TI vs Q9550+1070TI and there are only 5 or 7 fps of difference at high fps (120 vs 115fps aprox). APEX make a big mistake blocking old CPUs. Old doesn't mean it has low performance!!, and ALL the test of games using SSE2 vs the SSE 4.1 demostrate that you dont have any perfomance benefit using SSE 4.1 instead of SSE2.0, some games only have 2FPS of difference on tests using SSE2.0 vs SSE4.1 and is not that's not enough justification to block old but good the CPUs.
June 2019
@Player_mr148lepThey are morons! Instead making game that works on big percent of computers, they discriminate old processors and made terrible video optimisatiion! You re lucky with 1070, Im on 1050 ti, and its pure torture! half time it feels like Im playing on 30 fps even I killed all settings on lowest of low possible settings with advanced customisation! Actually, at end Im not even sure anymore that its my video card , or game is just terrible coded