This is kind of a nothingburger. It requires an instruction that first launched on AMD Phenom and Intel’s Nehalem architecture (1st gen i5/i7). I would think the vast majority of people running 11 on unsupported CPUs would be running something newer than that.
Doesn’t stop certain communities raging. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
From what I’ve read, it only affects AMD processors from 2011 and earlier, and Intel processors from 2008 and earlier.
So… just people who bypassed the earlier TPM requirement and installed Windows 11 on those older CPUs for some reason.
Who would do this, like three people in the world?
Not having a TPM doesn’t mean that old
sure, but not having POPCNT means way older than not having TPM
that’s sorta what I meant
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The oldest machines to support windows 11 are about years old at this point. It’s OK to call them old.
Old =/= unusable/useless
Guess I’m one of the three. I did the tpm bypass on an old computer I built way back. Mostly just for fun, I don’t actually use it for anything anymore.
That said, looks like the CPU is new enough (i7 950) this change won’t affect it.
If the CPU does not support POPCNT, Windows 11 version 24H2 will not boot. The instruction requires a processors that supports SSE4.2 or SSE4a.
[…] Intel launched support for SSE4.2 in Intel Nehalem core processors in late 2008. AMD added support for the instructions in late 2011. Older processors continued to be sold for some time.
The article may be a bit off on the AMD processors, K10 (Phenom etc) supports SSE4a and was released in late 2007.
Don’t worry MS, any PC with those processors in my house are already safely running Linux.
Thanks for your concern.
I think windows 10 is going to be the last windows I use on my personal computer.
I hope that proton and general native Linux gaming support gets to a fully supported level before they kill off windows 10.
With the popularity of the steam deck for the first time I’m actually somewhat confident it’s going to get there eventually.
