They have SSE3.
SSE3 is very old, much older than AMD Phenom II processors. In fact it's been in CPUs since Pentium 4 from 2004.
That's why I don't get the update the Community Manager delivered talking about SSE3.
It's a fact that Phenom II or Core 2 and lower/older just simply don't work with this game and it must be something else than instruction sets. Everyone talks about SSE4.1 and whatnot, but SSE4.1 is supported by Core 2 Quad 9000 processors that many people here also use (me included. Q9450 OC@3.5GHz) but they can't get into the game too.
Let me tell you: It's not the instruction set. It is something else preventing us from playing this game.
This game only works from the first Core i generation or from AMD FX or higher. This btw has nothing to do with the system requirements they've put for this game. The system requirements NEVER are about how old or new the hardware is, just a guideline for performance and nothing else. Which is why directing people to the system requirements is just insulting. It's not the real reason why the game doesn't work with the older CPUs. The real reason is something only the developers do know but they don't tell us a thing, because they assume that NOBODY gets it. And I can understand them because 95+% of the people complaining here don't have a freaking clue about anything and just copy stuff like "Yeah must be SSE4.1, yeah must be because of the requirements, blahblah" You have NO IDEA what the real reason is. Me neither. I don't code for this game.
BTW: Community Managers usually DON'T KNOW ANYTHING as well. They just tell what the developers say, if they say anything at all. I mean just seeing them talk about SSE3 alone makes me think they don't know any better. No offense, but the EA support or the community managers can't help you there at all.
Final words: The way this problem is handled tells me, that they'll never fix this issue at all. Because they simply don't care. Else there would have been a more definite word from the developers of the game already, clearly stating what they'll do about the Phenom II and Core 2 support. And seeing that people give it up more and more just helps the developers to further ignore this issue.
I think I'll upgrade my PC sometime, even though I have no issues with the games I'm playing. If not for the game(s) then at least for "quality of life", because a faster more modern computer is never a bad thing to have...
