There’s a lot to be said for having something that just works and being unaware of issues that might have but didn’t affect you 
Oh and I’m wrong, yea - they had changed it so AVX2 was required and I stopped updating as my (much faster than many AVX2 CPUs) processor didn’t support it. However some research shows they subsequently/deliberately removed the need for AVX2. Would have been nice to get a message as I asked both here and directly.
In a post from a Topaz person:
”AVX is a requirement for the app, there were a few versions that required AVX2 however, the requirement was removed and replaced with a warning to let the user know that it is not guaranteed that everything will work.”
(From: Video AI Requirements )
I’m not sure how helpful it is with that warning tho…
I do also wonder about the requirement for a CPU “released” after 2020, as that excludes a very large number of CPUs sold this decade and allows CPUs like the N100, which is mind-blowingly slow for number-crunching, while excluding ones many times faster, like Comet Lake (10 cores and 20 threads at over 5GHz in the i9-10900K, for example, released pre-2020).
P.S. Note that while the N-series officially only supports up to 16GB some manufacturers have made systems with 32GB work, plus it supports 1x8+2x4 PCIe (e.g. RTX5060ti/16GB), so it does quality. Just don’t tho… really…
