Windows 11 Has Stopped Working on Older CPUs

Microsoft’s official system requirements for Windows 11 already included an eight-generation Intel Core CPU or later, or a second-generation Ryzen processor or later, as well as other PC features like TPM 2.0. This change only affects people who bypassed those official requirements on computers with incredibly old processors. If you have a PC just outside of the official requirements, such as a first-gen Ryzen laptop or a desktop with a seventh-generation Intel CPU, you’re still fine for now.

Even though those older CPUs were never supposed to run Windows 11 in the first place, it’s still an annoying change. Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 in October 2025, unless you pay for continued software support—we still don’t know how much that will cost. If you have a PC with an older CPU, you’ll have to revert back to Windows 10, or try your luck with another operating system. However, some applications and games don’t work without that CPU instruction either, such as Apex Legends.

The next major release of Windows could arrive as early as this year, likely named Windows 12, and could have even higher system requirements than Windows 11. However, all of the processors that lack support for POPCNT were already officially unsupported, and many of those PCs are likely still running earlier versions of Windows anyway.

Source: Bob Pony on Twitter/X (1, 2), The Register

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