Destiny 2 Upcoming Hotfix On PC To Fix AMD Phenom II Crash, Releasing Next Week
Destiny 2 launch on PC didn’t go down too well as players faced many nasty issues and one of them being Crash on PC with AMD Phenom II CPU. When complaints related to it kept pouring in on various forums including Bungie’s official forum, the development team replied that “Destiny 2 will not run on processors without Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3)”. It was further revealed that AMD Phenom II series CPU is below minimum specs requirements for Destiny 2 and hence are not supported.
This statement came as a surprise to PC gaming community because open beta of Destiny 2 worked fine on AMD Phenom II CPU series. The outrage continued and it grew bigger with each passing day and hence Bungie was forced to issue another statement in which they promised that they are going to look into the matter and will attempt to fix the crash.
Bungie today via their official Twitter Help account revealed that a new Hotfix for the PC version of Destiny 2 is going to be made available next week which will remove the SSSE3: “Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3” processor requirement.
Destiny 2 on PC will receive a Hotfix next week to remove the SSSE3 processor requirement. Stay tuned for details:
— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) October 28, 2017
In another news, Bungie Help Twitter account revealed that players who are playing Destiny 2 on PC with Vega GPU and are experiencing Crash issue at MISSION 6 then they need to update the graphics drivers from AMD official website.
If you are encountering Vega GPU crashes when playing the mission “Six”, updating drivers should resolve this issue:
— Bungie Help (@BungieHelp) October 29, 2017
It’s good to see that Bungie finally addressing the nasty Destiny 2 crash issue on AMD Phenom II series CPU.