Requires AVX support or it will not run

[Trippin]

First refund I've ever requested via Steam. This game requires AVX support. Even Cyperpunk 2077 runs on my old i7 without this.

I'm bummed, but yeah, not purchasing a new PC because of one game.

[Seamus]

You apparently didn't read the system requirements.

Additional Notes: AVX instruction set required

[Whitebeard]

You didn't tell me that, but point taken.
I saw the requirement, but didn't know what it really meant.
I switched machines to play it. Others don't have the choice.

[Advice Alien]

Read the system requirements next time.

[Jonny Sparta]

This game actually pushed me to build a new pc and my old one even had an avx cpu. It just wasn't good enough.

[Trippin]

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

You apparently didn't read the system requirements.

Additional Notes: AVX instruction set required

You are 100% correct, I didn't. Because I've never found a game that doesn't run on my PC.

BUT even if I had, as a lay person I wouldn't know what AVX is.

[Seamus]

As a note, there have been several updates to cyberpunk that would not have run on that old i7 of yours as they used avx.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Publicado originalmente por Trippin:

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

You apparently didn't read the system requirements.

You are 100% correct, I didn't. Because I've never found a game that doesn't run on my PC.

BUT even if I had, as a lay person I wouldn't know what AVX is.

So uh...what's this thread doing exactly then?

Are you venting?

Are you criticizing the game?

Are you providing a PSA to remind people that they should always review system requirements and not just ignore them?

[ShutEye_DK]

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

As a note, there have been several updates to cyberpunk that would not have run on that old i7 of yours as they used avx.

AVX has been supported since gen1 of i7's AFAIK:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/core/intel-core-i7-comparison-chart.pdf

@OP: Which CPU do you have?

[Seamus]

Publicado originalmente por ShutEye_DK:

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

As a note, there have been several updates to cyberpunk that would not have run on that old i7 of yours as they used avx.

AVX has been supported since gen1 of i7's AFAIK:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/core/intel-core-i7-comparison-chart.pdf

@OP: Which CPU do you have?

No, AVX has not been supported since gen 1.

AVX was added with Sandy Bridge, the 2000 line. Whoever wrote that document needs to be fired because it's blatantly wrong.

[ShutEye_DK]

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

Publicado originalmente por ShutEye_DK:

AVX has been supported since gen1 of i7's AFAIK:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/core/intel-core-i7-comparison-chart.pdf

@OP: Which CPU do you have?

No, AVX has not been supported since gen 1.

AVX was added with Sandy Bridge, the 2000 line. Whoever wrote that document needs to be fired because it's blatantly wrong.

Well that's not good, looking at the source of my link :)

Edit: wikipedia agrees with you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_processors#Sandy_Bridge_microarchitecture_(2nd_generation)

So OP is all the way back on a Gen1, it seems. That's around 10 years ago by now.
I'd take it as a good excuse to build a new system :)

[Komarimaru]

Publicado originalmente por ShutEye_DK:

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

As a note, there have been several updates to cyberpunk that would not have run on that old i7 of yours as they used avx.

AVX has been supported since gen1 of i7's AFAIK:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/processors/core/intel-core-i7-comparison-chart.pdf

@OP: Which CPU do you have?

Heh, best part about that. From Intel, and it's wrong. Click on the i7 920, and takes you to the actual page, and no AVX support, only SSE4.2

[Seamus]

I'm aware that's from intel.

It's also wrong.

The product pages for the first gen i7's are correct however.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/37148/intel-core-i7940-processor-8m-cache-2-93-ghz-4-80-gts-intel-qpi.html
Notice under instruction sets it says SSE4.2

While the 2600K page says AVX as well.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/52214/intel-core-i72600k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz.html

First gen core does NOT support AVX and never has.

[ShutEye_DK]

Publicado originalmente por Seamus:

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First gen core does NOT support AVX and never has.

Never disagreed with you.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

This is a bit alarming that an Intel chart is inaccurate.

[Seamus]

It's wrong in more ways than just listing AVX as being supported on first gen.

All of the 900 line chips had triple channel ram, not dual channel. But that page lists all the 900 chips as being dual channel.

Probably more wrong through the rest of it, but, I don't care enough to dig through it.