Roberts Space Industries announces they are no longer supporting processors
without Advanced Vector Extension support in
Star Citizen (thanks
Tom's Hardware). Thus their space game announced a long time ago in a galaxy
far, far away will not support CPUs released prior to 2011::
We wanted to
give you a heads up that we'll be updating our minimum system requirements with
the update coming to the RSI Launcher tomorrow. Specifically, AVX (Advanced
Vector Extensions) CPU technology will be a requirement going forward. It's
important to note that only older CPUs don't utilize this technology, and we
expect very few of you to be impacted by this change.
AVX technology was introduced with Intel's Sandy Bridge processor and AMD's
Bulldozer processor (both released in 2011). This means that processors that
pre-date this will no longer be able to effectively launch Star Citizen from the
updated launcher.