Photoshop V26 Not Compatible [Missing AVX2]

Interestingly, when I explained this issue to Microsoft's Copilot, it also suggested changing to Affinity Photo.

I will be looking into it! 

Lightroom Classic is now lost too. Thats going to get odd syncing incompatible new functions wiht LR mobile.

Totally agree! Adobe just loves to loose customers. I guess we will now cancel our Adobe Cloud/Photoshop subscription and move to an alternative products, possibly capture one.

I agree with you on that point. Adobe is doing the same thing with Mac. It's forcing users onto Sonoma with an error that warns users "some features may not work correctly with the current OS". However, neither APPLE or Adobe are able to tell me what features. It's really nonsense.

It's unfortunate but the answer, if you don't want to buy a new computer, is to not update PS. I have one machine that's stuck on PS 2024 for some time now. Honestly I don't need most of the new features that ver 26 brings, including generative fill. Which is broken. You can stay on that version for a while if you're happy with what is currently working for you.

In the other hand my best advice without installing anything 3rd party to work with the latest versión possible is the last BETA 25.13.0

However sad as it is, I did find a problem that doest allow me to work easily on it, a notification that doesn't go away about updating. That BETA version works in AVX with the same features as the last photoshop that doesn't allow AVX but AVX2. I hope to solve it, and keep that last beta as the best tool until I can afford a server for my page to leave photoshop services, which is cheaper than buying a new machine.

The funny part is it has some new interesting Ai brushes to select and speed up the workflow, the sad part is that Adobe do not provide any offline install package to play with their *json files, after doing that it really works, no trouble, their new features works as they should. Maybe someone with AVX2 can render faster or whatever but I don't see anyproblem to wait 30seconds more for an AI tool to work. (I suspect is the only plus of avx2) 

My config is:

Win 10 pro

32GB Ram

i7-3770 (non k) CPU OC to 4.1-4.9

Nvidia GTX 1650 Super 4GB

The truth of my case is that I do use Adobe Portfolio as a plus to my subscription, so I don't have to pay extra hosting for a decent page, as soon as my business grows I will leave them and switch to a one payment Capture ONE for sure, I'm already familiar with davinci Resolve, and switch to Square space or something for my hosting. I am just paying for a photographer's plan. htts://neomouse.studio/

Funny thing is that I got the message "your graphics cards support is disabled for this session because of an error".
Next genfill popped up "Your CPU does not do AVX2 can't do it".
So apperently my graphics cards is fine taking over those operations my old CPU can't do.

I solved the problem...swithched to Affinity Photo.