Pretty much this ^ Just look at all the other games that recently rolled back to SSE3 support. Just because something is old doesn't make it inferior and this is a prime example of it. Hell, there are Phenoms that even exceed the "minimum specs" which are absolutely factual bogus. Why even have low-medium settings in a game where the "minimum requirements" well exceed what can max the game out? The game isn't that demanding which is why 10+ year old CPUs could run it flawlessly in beta. Even old laptops were running this. The beta itself was a testament to good optimization and they just crumpled it up and gave us shit that is also having issues on Intel and FX family CPUs. But in the case of SSE3, it's an arbitrary requirement. Seriously VV, wtf?