Ubisoft responded to player complains and tickets regarding the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey AVX issues and lack of older CPU support causing frequent crashes
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Since launch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey AVX support and crashes have been among the hottest topics in the community, Players with older CPUs have constant crashes or the game doesn’t run at all on their machines, because of the aforementioned reasons.
Ubisoft responded with an official message announcing that the developers are actively working on a solution and plan to include support for more older CPUs so more players would be able to run the game.
While there is no ETA yet, you can be sure that sooner or later your older machine will be able to run the game within the minimum requirements. Sadly, this wont grant you smooth experience, but you will at least be able to check out Ancient Greece through the eyes of the Mercenary Alexios or Kassandra.
Below is the full message from Ubisoft’s community manager, posted on Reddit on October 7th.
Hey everyone,
We’ve been actively monitoring player reports about PC crashes and want to take a moment to provide you with an update on this.
First and foremost, we want to thank everyone who got in touch with us via the various channels to provide additional information. Thanks to your support, we were able to identify the common cause of a few instances of reported crashes: the impacted CPUs didn’t support AVX – more details below.
We heard your feedback and are now actively working on a solution to extend the supported CPUs for our players to be able to run Assassin’s Creed Odyssey without AVX support, within the minimum requirements.
As this is an ongoing process, we are not able to provide an ETA just yet, but rest assured this is a high priority for us and we will keep you updated on the progress.
Let’s go through a the questions that we’ve been seeing lately.
The message also provides info on what AVX is and why the game requires it as well as a few popular answers given in the form of a Q&A:
AVX stands for Advanced Vertex Extensions and essentially is a list of CPU commands. We’re using AVX because those commands are able to do some vector operations faster. With AVX we are able to get additional performance from the game.
It wouldn`t be possible to list exhaustively all the CPUs not supported. The most common processors [without AVX support] used by you are First Generation Intel Core i3,i5,i7, Pentium G and some Intel Xeon processors.
You can check the official Assassin’s Creed Odyssey PC System Requirements and compare your own hardware to see if the game can run on your machine.
If you have any problems or have found a solution to one, check the collective post I have on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Problems and Fixes. Leave a comment and explain what issues you have ran into or how you fixed something that was bothering you or preventing you from enjoying the game.
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