It’s been more than a month since the release of Assassin’s Creed Origins and users with CPUs that lack SSE 4.1 or 4.2 support are still unable to play the game. This is an issue that plagued numerous games in the past. However, and contrary to other developers, Ubisoft does not seem willing to patch the game.
This very same issue plagued Destiny 2 and Bungie was quick to react. Although the Phenom II CPUs were not listed on the game’s PC requirements, Vicarious Visions released a patch that added support for these CPUs.
According to reports and speculations, this incompatibility may be due to the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Other Denuvo games that suffered from the same issue were Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Dishonored 2. However, both Arkane Studios and Konami released patches that added support for CPUs that lacked SSE 4.1 or 4.2. Moreover, both of these games are still using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
In other words, it is possible to add support for these CPUs without removing the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. And while other developers have listened to their fans, Ubisoft is not willing to add support for these CPUs in Assassin’s Creed Origins.
When a fan asked for a patch that would resolve the crashing issues PC gamers experience when using non-SSE CPUs, like the AMD Phenom II, Ubisoft replied and stated that these CPUs are lower than those listed in its Minimum PC Requirements:
“Thank you for reaching Ubisoft Customer Support. My name is Manuel and I will be assisting you with your case.
I am sorry to bear these news, but your system is below the minimum system requirements for Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Please see this link – http://blog.ubi.com/assassins-creed-…ents-revealed/ – for reference.
I understand this was not the solution you were looking for and I want to apologize for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your comprehension and patience in this matter.
Please let me know if I can assist you with anything else. I will be here to help you if you need.”
There is currently a big thread on the official forum with complaints about the lack of support for non-SSE CPUs.
We hope that Ubisoft will listen to its fans and release a patch that will add support to non-SSE CPUs. As said, this won’t jeopardize Assassin’s Creed: Origins’ protection system. However, and for the time being, this is something that Ubisoft is not really looking into!
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Why would anyone with pos phenoms wanna play this, use those 60dolars/60euros and change that crap asap
I have to agree. It’s way past time for an upgrade.
They still pull of 60 FPS in basically all games. I don’t honestly see it as a necessity to replace them yet.
I have one rig with one and aside from Fallout 4 and Rise of the Tomb Raider, no games give them any real issues.
Needing a top of the line processor for gaming is a myth (still digging my Ryzen though).
For a fact not true.
You own this chip? Because I do. It’s used daily. I know it very, very well.
Might not be just Denuvo causing a problem. iirc Ubisoft uses a DRM Cocktail in Ass-Creed Origins so it could be the combination of DRM causing it. That may make it harder to fix.
prove it that denuvo is causing the performance issues and this
for the 16th time this month.
it’s not proven once you fking idiot
“Ass-Creed”
Well aren’t you cute and original…
Damn, there’s been plenty of games that have had this issue, but they’ve all been fixed pretty quickly. Even a niche Japanese game like EDF 4.1 had this patched within a week or two of launch. Gotta wonder why anyone using that old of a cpu would want to bother with this game though, considering how much the DRM is spiking cpu usage.
how much? prove it that denuvo is causing the performance issues and this
its been proven so many times.
Hello again – Mind giving me the new proof? Because I have yet to see it.
It’s still speculation as far as I’ve been able to find.
where? stop lying to yourself
“It’s been proven so many times” is not itself an argument, unless those individual examples of proof can be cited.
I’m not trying to prove that it’s NOT the DRM – I just see no definitive evidence that it IS the DRM. You have proof of a game that uses an unseemly amount of CPU power, and you have proof that the game’s DRM combines Denuvo with VMProtect. You and others are connecting those two things and claiming causation, but there’s not any proof of it; it’s just assumption. I personally would guess that VMProtect adds at least a small degree of CPU workload to a title it’s bundled with, but I can’t currently prove it in this title, and I certainly can’t quantify how MUCH CPU usage it actually contributes to.
Why do you have to be right on this? Why you can’t just accept that we currently have no way of knowing one way or the other until a smarter man than you or I can remove the DRM from the game and then run tests?
Wait on the evidence!
If our society did so more often, we’d be far less polarized and divided than we are presently.
It isn’t, it’s just a bs circlejerk by all these noobs to discount why their terrible computers can’t run the game.
no it has protect the game from the filthy pirate for over a month be prepared to see it even more in the future
well … have fun with that broken preformance
implying he even buys pc games.
exactly
We know what would happen if we stopped buying AAA DRM based games. The pubs would simply throw up their hands like a spoilt child, while muttering “I guess PC gamers don’t want our games”, with them closing up shop and praising the hell out of the gimped console crowd for buying into their crap.
They can do that. There are more than enough indie and middle-tier games, and their system requirements are always less anyway.
AAA pubs tend to put more focus on short burst sales, rather than long tail ones.
And why should it? Phenom 2 is ANCIENT… you dont see this game running on the Prescott , plus the game uses one thread 100 percent for some reason
phenom 2 feb 2009… sandy bridge feb 2011
I also found a bug where you can’t play AC origins in a 486 or an PC amiga. UBISOFT PATCH THIS ASAP!
LOL 🙂 , exactly.
AMD GimpWine. ?
not defending ubi but those with such old CPU should really buy new hardware if they want to play the game.
I mean they are literally using hardware that’s barely newer than the 360, what do they expect?
It’s similar to what’s in the consoles just much higher clocked. It should run on them without issues even if it’s not at the highest spec. It’s a software issue for sure.
No it isn’t. The 6 core Phenom Black came out in 2009.360 came out in 2005.
Lazy or not the effort needed to release the patch still need resource on ubi part. They already release the minimum spec for the game to run but people still buy the game despite knowing their hardware did not meet the minimum requirement. So if you look it this way these people brought this problem to themselves. Now they ask ubi to solve it for them.
I have no love nor hate towards ubi in general but it seems you want to blame the issue on ubi no matter what. Funny thing is some people said dev should implement all new feature in games to push things forward but when developer try to do that it was bad or they were lazy to support older hardware.
phenom 2 had its time, its time to go.
It’s still going strong in my PC and my PC doesn’t suffer from it, besides if I was changing my CPU I would have to get a mainboard that supports an AMD processor and DDR4 (last I checked, which was admittedly a while ago the motherboards were slotted to fit only the newest, bank breaking CPUs and DDR4) so I would have to get a new CPU, a new motherboard and 16GB of DDR4 RAM.
If you want to buy all of this for me, even though my current setup runs fine; feel free! Should only be about £3-400 if you budget 😉
Oh and if you could throw me in an SSD too that would be great.
Or Ubisoft could just remove their DRM and everybody would be happy.
Especially when you consider that my (rather dated, except for the GPU which I got last year at just over £200; nothing amazing though when it gets dated I can just link a second together in crossfire) PC is at least comparable to “next gen” consoles of not slightly more powerful. I’ll upgrade my pc when I A) Have the money and B) it no longer runs graphically intensive stable (KCD runs well, mostly; though it occasionally has a one second long stuttuer when new textures are popping umin
sure, which one, it has 4 of them.
OMFG this nonsense again. It happened with RE7 demo and RE7 because Capcom was dumb enough to patch in support for ancient processors in the demo, then people expected it in the game.
Stop using an 8 year old processor. The end.
This would be almost as stupid as me trying to play this game on my old PC from 2010 with a Lynnfield. I still have it, yes, it’s a server now.
I do agree that people wanting brand new games should upgrade from a phenom II however you do realize that those cpus are still good right? i mean the Phenom II x6 1100t that i own is comparable to a FX cpu and many people have those. Lets not go comparing this to a damn pentium lol.
I used it from 2010 to 2016. I had to replace the GPU with a 750ti in 2014.
That CPU and GPU, originally, could never run anything at ultra except source games and older games. Yea. It *can* play games. Why bother when you could literally find newer hw for cheaper, and more easily.
TechTubers also don’t know what they’re talking about and are lying and omitting details.
Because they now know their 4 layer trick works, so now they have little reason on their end to bother with sorting out PC issues. As long as they nab that sweet “burst” sales money, they couldn’t care less. They just want the first month’s worth of money, rather than 5 years down the line.
They’ve always been like this in regards to PC gaming though. They somehow managed to screw up the latest Anno title in terms of performance and gameplay.
I’m actually glad to see the unformity in the comments on this one… We’re all in agreement that you can’t expect to run new technology (new games) with old technology (Phenoms)!
I was concerned we’d still see die-hard Ubisoft hecklers complaining that Ubisoft is sodomizing users with this hardware.
They listed their minimum requirements to play the game… If you don’t meet them, then you can’t expect the game to work. That simple. It’s perfectly honest to say beforehand the minimum CPU you support and after the fact, choosing not to support CPU’s older than what you said.
Yeah i have a pc in my home with this CPU (phenom IIx6 1100t). i used it in my youngest daughters build. I decided to use it in her system because she only plays older games. Sims 4, Minecraft, Garrys mod, Skyrim so i didnt have to worry about her wanting bleeding edge games. Think the newest game she has is Fallout 4. Guys, if you have a phenom II, sell it and get a new Cpu/mobo.
ubisoft never listens
To be fair, AC Origins is very CPU intensive. Not even Phenom II x6 at 4.2 GHz would be enough.
BF2 is not as CPU dependent as Origins, so you can’t compare them.
It’s a 6 core processor. it is as good as an i7 processor of the first or second gen.