Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been officially released, however it appears that this latest open-world game from Ubisoft will not work on CPUs that do not support AVX. This basically means that the game will not launch at all if you are using an older Intel or AMD CPU that does not support it.
In case you weren’t aware of, AVX – Advanced Vector Extensions – are extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and AMD. The first CPUs that support AVX are the second generation Intel Core Sandy Bridge processors and the AMD Bulldozer processors.
In short, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will not work with these CPUs:
- First generation Intel i3, i5, i7 processor or older (Eg. i7 920, i7 960, etc.)
- Intel Pentium processors (Eg. G4560, G2030, etc.)
- AMD Phenom processors (Eg. X6 1090T)
Now it’s worth noting that other PC games also had that requirement, however developers were able to patch their games in order to support older CPUs. Monster Hunter World was such a game, as were Ubisoft’s Steep and The Crew 2. However, Ubisoft may not release any patch to support older CPUs this time around.
On its official forum, Ubisoft has stated that it currently does not have any plans to support CPUs that lack support for the AVX extensions. According to reports, this may be due to the inclusion of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech so it will be interesting to see whether the game will run on such CPUs when – and if – it ever gets cracked. Unless of course Ubisoft updates the game in order to officially support these CPUs in a future patch.
UPDATE:
Ubisoft has issued an update on this issue, claiming that it is currently looking into extending the supported CPUs for those that do not support AVX (thanks 7thGuest2.0).
“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.”
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why they do this? I’m using an overclocked i7 920 I never had any problem with other games it still a good CPU…
I know it is a d** move from them , but dude it is a time for an upgrade
Used Sandy bridge CPU is cheap btw if you want to upgrade with minimal budget…
You can’t just upgrade the CPU to a Sandy Bridge as is though. The 920 uses an LGA 1366 socket. He would need an LGA 1155 motherboard. There will be RAM issues as well. The i7 920 was Triple Channel for the RAM and so most people used 3 X 2 GB RAM and if he put just two of those sticks in his new motherboard to preserve Dual Channel capability then he would only have 4 GB system RAM and that’s not enough. If he puts all three sticks in the new motherboard then he would still not have enough RAM and he would lose Dual Channel capability as well.
Bottom line. Stick with what you’ve got and pass on this game or save up for a newer CPU, motherboard and RAM.
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gey
But you like it , right???
sorry to break it to you but not everyone like men
same CPU here (3.5 GHz), I don’t care about this game and don’t think it will set a trend. but it’s interesting to see that there IS an expiration date to these things, even if their raw performance should still be more than enough to play anything.
their “superior” copy protection requires some AVX instruction to do extra number crunching
Stop crying. TIME TO UPGRADE! First gen Core i7 parts are inefficient anyway.
id kind of like to see someone try to use a phenom proc to run this..be like a big fat man doing the tour de france
This is what i wonder too phenom x4 didnt run edf without patch or no mans sky. Can a x6 even run asscreed Odyssey?
no, all phenom miss AVX
no i mean in terms of raw power, could it run the game well? Because looking at origins i doubt it could.
It definitely wouldn’t run Odyssey with acceptable performance. My old rig used to be a Phenom II X4 955 paired with a Radeon HD 7770 and I couldn’t get 60 FPS on GTA V at 1080p low settings. Odyssey is a much more demanding game so a Phenom would run it at sub 30 FPS.
LOL. Made me laugh! Was looking for a comment like that.
On another note who the fk cares i mean even with AVX a i7-950 would bottleneck big time….
Ugh sometimes people are mad for nothing.
id kind of like to see someone try to use a phenom proc to run this..be like a big fat man doing the tour de france
@John, copy/paste SPAM bot spotted.
thx god, this ACOD still full support of my i5 3570 …. it is, right ??
Yes.
yeah but those 4 cores would be maxed out at all times
The title heading might sound a bit negative, but I’m optimistic that UBI will surely add support for these OLD gen CPUs. /s
Yeah I know it’s time to upgrade, given how Game engines have advanced, but there are peeps who are still using an older hardware, so dropping full support for these processors is kind of a tough decision.
After all, basically, if the instructions are supported by the processor, a software can use them to do some things faster, compared to other similar processor instructions.
By the way, “Square Enix” also added support for AMD Phenom II processors on Final Fantasy X, and I will credit Square Enix for the patch, for enabling the support on older gen CPUs, because the game actually required SSE4.1 instruction set support, which AMD Phenom II processors lacked.
For FFX game, all processors listed on the “system requirements” page supported SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 and base AVX set, of which the Phenom II was lacking, but it was patched later on.
For AVX, adding support might be a little different case, but I still don’t find this as an excuse for not supporting older gen CPUs, just because of instruction set (which CAN be done via coding/patching), imo.
It is not impossible to implement instruction set support, as Square Enix did via a patch. I hope UBI does the same, “assuming” there aren’t some serious Game engine limitations.
Though, I’m just wondering how well this Game will actually run on these older CPUs, given how demanding ODYSSEY is, this is assuming the DEVs patch the game, and add support for AVX.
In the worst case scenario, Gamers will only be left with an upgrade option. If Ubisoft has a compelling reason, I’d sure love to hear it.
Because AVX (an advanced version of SSE, that uses 256-bit registers) is usually mostly used for really computational intensive works, like scientific programs, video encoders, etc.
Heck, a quick glance at benchmarks between an i7 960, vs an i5 2400 CPU shows only a marginal improvement gap in raw processing power.
The only significant difference is the presence of AVX/AES in these newer CPU’s, but those are mostly used for cryptography and data protection among other things, and I know this doesn’t matter that much when it comes to gaming.
But I do sense DENUVO as the culprit, hence the support drop for First generation Intel procs……..
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My younger brother is still using an i5-670. sucks to know he might need to upgrade, if ubishaft doesn’t patch this game, lol.
What about the GPU ? Which Model ?
^this.
ubi is anti-consumer, no surprise there, they’d rather lose some sales than ship without uber-drm
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No one wants to read your dumbass ramblings
Unfortunately, you actually seem to read and care too much, as evident from your comment, LOL.
Though, a quick glance on your comment history further proves my point, and says it all. You are here just to attack/insult other forum members. Enuff said.
I’m curious. Since this looks like a case of trolling, why did you take the time to read and comment under his post if you did not agree with his vision ?
i’m safe. but suxs for those who are not. ubisoft should support old CPUs.
Safe for playing another lame AC? Ok lol
Typical UbiShaft.
No, that is typical tech and gaming industry. Move FORWARD!
Want to play our unoptimized crap ? Upgrade to latest tech even tho it will still runs like crap. now be a good boy and buy microtransactions to skip the crappy game content.
This is a great summary for “almost” all ‘AAA’ trash these days.
There are very, very few, that do not fit this mold.
Running perfectly (60+fps) fine on my i7-6700K1080Ti 3440×1440 and Ultra Settings
1080ti will give an avrage of 58fps in this ancient game at 1440p. which is beyond awful, and we are talking about one of the best GPUs in the market for a game that looks inferior to it’s 2014 version. Perfect is a strong word to describe this situation.
Oh god! perfect? Are you serious?
Actually I said “pefectly fine”, not “perfect”. Meaning it’s running with no real complaints.
Well said man.
We’re talking 9 or 10 year old CPUs here. From Ubisoft’s perspective they probably wonder how many people are using those and trying to play demanding modern titles besides pirates that won’t be buying their game anyway?
You are correct regarding the age of these CPUs, but I think there are peeps who are ‘still’ stuck on old hardware, imo.
They might constitute the minority of the casual games out there though ?
True, but they aren’t getting cut off from gaming. When running really old hardware is it reasonable to expect to be able to play every new game that comes out?
“”When running really old hardware is it reasonable to expect to be able to play every new game that comes out?””
Yeah, I can agree on that aspect though. We can’t expect an obsolete HW to run and play most of the modern graphic demanding games, let alone this AC title.
Define obsolete? They’re shutting out CPUs that would get 60+ fps.
If the hardware has more than enough power to do so, such as is the case here? Yes I damn well expect it to be supported.
G4560 was proclaimed the budget king in 2017, there are lot of people who bought it because they had to save on cpu due to mining, ram pricing. It is a GIANT problem. Well, at least I think if they will feel the need to upgrade due to it, they will go with AMD this time.
We talking about platform that run Origins just fine, now suddenly this DLC is unplayable because of ubi logic.
I assume you have means to throw away cash every year on upgrade, some people are not that fortunate.
My friend for example can’t afford to drop 400$ on new set that will play this game and he played Origins and any other game just fine before that, above of levels that consoles can deliver.
” ancient” i7 860 ran Origins on 1080p high 30 fps with gtx 670 just fine, more than your potatostation can handle.
if he’s an autist he can do both
Possibly a Malkavian?
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.
I absolutely can’t agree with you. Pentium G4560 was touted as a “budget king” in many reviews in 2017 and was selling like hotcakes, it is absolutely a problem for people who had to cheap out on CPU due to RAM and GPU prices in 2017, believing they will be set to go with their build.
If a cpu is good enough to run the game,it is not right to drop suppport.
Oh my old 1055t is finally out of the running.
is this a bad thing? people always said that game developer should always use latest version of DX even if that’s going mean some hardware will not work well on it. why we don’t push the same thing with CPU?
What one has to do with another? By your logic Origins, which is basically same game should not be able to run on first gen i7, but it did just fine.
Force implementing AVX in to a game is just a lazy way of optimization, nothing more nothing else aka ubifail
That’s like saying all game should still support DX9. not doing so is just the lazy part from developer. But right now even some indie games are using DX11 exclusively. I have yet to see people complaining about how those game did not work with DX9 or DX10 generation of GPU even if techinically thw game is very light to the point even some very old gpu still capable of running them. In fact some people even encouraging to ditch high level API like DX11 altogether and fully embrace DX12/Vulkan (which means GPU like HD5K and 6k series won’t be able to run then even if they have the raw power)
Oriign was running on dx11 genius, games look identical, you have same logic as ubi-slaves
Thx denuvo
People still playing AC games?
Yes, It’s Ubisoft’s version of COD.
Well i’m surprised to see so few realized that.
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the entire assassin creed franchise could be on sale for free right now and i wouldn’t garb any, waste of time and space on hard drive. it seems they’re going with dark souls combat system so assassin’s creed to me is dead like cod, i won’t even bother to check new titles or trailers.
Apparently they are not AC games anymore judging by how many “rip asscreed” comments i see in the internet.
Only in this case , Nvidia GeForce Now Cloud gaming streaming service (or similar), can be useful for me , and fix the problem , because also if my pc is old and 300€ value , the game will run on nvidia server pc with max graphics and 0 compatibility problem , so i can play it and i don’t care about hardware.
Can these old processors even run the game at an acceptable frame rate? My old Phenom II X4 955 would cry tears of blood whenever I tried to play any UE4 game even on low settings. Maybe the Bloomfield i7’s can still pull their weight, but I’m highly skeptical that any of the other listed processors would be able to run this game at even 30 FPS.
And then there’s also the fact that someone who’s still using these ancient processors is probably also using an old GPU as well, which would make it even less likely that they would be able to play the game. Bottom line: if your PC has outdated hardware and doesn’t meet the minimum requirements of a game then you have no right to cry about your hardware not being supported or performance problems.
I learned this the hard way and saved enough money to do a bare bones upgrade. Went from a Phenom II X4 955 / 8GB of ram / Radeon HD 7770 to an i5 4460 / 8GB of ram / GTX 1050 and couldn’t be happier, it’s infinitely better than my old setup even though it’s a low-end rig for today’s standards.
it really isn’t. the 920 is not the bottleneck unless you lower all your graphical settings and want to play at 200+ fps.
It actually is, that CPU is ancient and it’s performance is on par with the current i3 generation.
So you bet it is a bottleneck nowadays.
The current i3 is last years i5. Quad Core CPU
But Even last years Dual Core i3 is still faster then his CPU, even current Pentium that people got for gaming is faster then his i7
It absolutely, definitely is. My 2700k bottlenecks me these days, so that’s simply not correct.
I’m pretty sure my 920 would run this game just fine.
i7 860 has double the processing power that any recent consoles have and there is a saying if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, well ubi brakes stuff on purpose and they lost potential sales because they can’t be bothered optimizing anything
Gotta run that Denuvo garbage somewhere I suppose.
a gtx1080 can get 60fps on very high setting with 60 percent gpu usage.
Denuvo is always to blame, LOL!
Not much of a PC gamer if you are still running that old stuff anyway..
it depends.
i have multiple pc’s, and happen to own a x58 which I use sometimes and don’t have any gaming issues. granted it has a x5650.
if any of my newer pc’s broke, I wouldn’t have really any issue using it as my main gaming one.
Hey, Consoles are holding PCGaming back with their old crappy hardware!
But PC Hardware from the last decade is perfectly fine!
Pretty sure that performance wise, last decade’s PC cpus are as powerful as last gen’s console cpus, roughly.
where is the SJW in this game? Just because you are now able to play a women?
ummm…bad performance? I will say this… cpu Utilisation is high for me 75-100% considering it just got released and is ubisoft is not in bad shape!!
2560×1080
Very high settigns
gtx 1080
ryzen 2600@4,2
3200MHZ ram
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WTF, Why isn’t this working on my 486dx2/66?
This is complete BS, Won’t ever be buying another game from (insert any company name here) again!
/s
damn… my i7-870 🙁
This is non issue, since every single owner of such antiquated CPU is a 3rd worlder that pirates games.
I hate when ppls using 3rd world without knowing what it means 1st world is allied to USA second world countries allied with cccp 3rd world countries neutral stop using cold war slangs
I love it when people try to play smart-ass.
You are using cold war era terminology, in modern times 3rd world means poor countries.
In your narrow head maybe
Good. CPU’s that don’t use AVX are literally from the stone age.
Too bad for those old people who haven’t upgraded their rig in over a decade. LMAO!
Yeah, I had a feeling the first and second gen i7’s would be the only ones with enough horse power to run these games.
It would be very weird if a modern quad core CPU wasn’t faster. That’s hardly an argument for throwing away CPUs that still get 60+ fps.
That’s a bummer from UBI.
Yay… thank you Ubisoft. Of course, the time will come to upgrade first gen CPU but I can play every other title @ 4K well. It’s super weird to have a first gen CPU + a 1080 Ti 😀 but it works @4K.
Another fact is that your i7-920 is a bottleneck for your GTX 1070…