If you need the or a step-by-step guide for FEX-Emu on Windows (since it’s Linux-native), let me know, and I’ll adapt the story into a direct tutorial.
For players using older hardware, the initial launch of on PC was frustrating due to a strict requirement for AVX2 instruction sets . This blocked owners of popular older CPUs—like the Intel Sandy Bridge (i7-2600K) or Ivy Bridge series—from even launching the game.
At launch, the game strictly required AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2), which effectively locked out CPUs older than Intel Haswell (4th Gen) or AMD Ryzen.