
Smells like lazy developers.Īt the very least, MS should still support Background Blur on AVX 1.0 machines, and leave the fancier background images to AVX 2.0, even though I don't see that as necessary. The question is why AVX 2.0 is even needed.Zoom and many other developers do this on a wide range of machines without limiting it to newer processors, and MS previously support Background Blur on these AVX 1.0 machines (like previous-generation Mac Pros). You must use sysctl - a | grep avx and look at the hw.optional.avx2_0 line to see if it's supported or not. That command returns only "AVX1.0", even if the CPU supports AVX 2.0.

As the command sysctl -a | grep is not sufficient to check a given Mac's ability to support AVX 2.0.
