When Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and The Lost Legacy were bundled into the Legacy of Thieves Collection and released on PC in late 2022, fans of Nathan Drake rejoiced. Finally, the cinematic masterpiece that pushed the PS4 to its limits was available on desktops and laptops with unlocked frame rates and ultra-wide support.

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CPUs older than Haswell (like the popular Intel i7-2600, i7-3770, or i5-2500K) do not have AVX2. They have AVX (original) or SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions).

These instructions allow the processor to perform mathematical operations on large blocks of data (vectors) in a single clock cycle. Game engines use AVX2 for physics calculations, texture decompression, and audio reverb.

Using the , you can enjoy the breathtaking set-pieces of Madagascar, the quiet character moments between Sam and Nathan, and the thrilling train sequence in The Lost Legacy —all on a CPU that launched over a decade ago.

If a website asks for your credit card to download an "AVX2 patch" for Uncharted 4 , close the tab. The tools described here (Intel SDE + a Notepad script) are 100% free and open-source. Does Sony expect you to throw away an otherwise perfectly functional Core i7-3770 just because it lacks one instruction set? The market says yes, but the modding community says no.

Have you successfully run Uncharted 4 on an i7-2600 or FX-8350? Let us know in the comments below which settings worked for you. For more "AVX2 bypass" guides for games like The Last of Us Part I and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, check out our related articles.