AdobeAVX2patch.exe

[vdraganzd]

Hi! I’ve been following your Adobe AVX2 Patch project on GitHub. I’m interested in using the AdobeAVX2Patch.exe tool, but I don’t have Visual Studio to compile it myself. Is there a place where I can download a precompiled version of the executable? Thanks in advance!

[FirstEverTech]

Don't laugh, but I'm not a programmer, and this is only the second (advanced) program I've created.

The problem is that this program only runs on my computer and is installed as a Windows app when exported.

For some reason, when I run a regular .exe file, the program doesn't launch. Trying to fix this problem has already taken me longer than creating the program itself...

Working program...

[tomm2001]

Hi! How can I download your program files? There is nothing to download in releases and packages(

[robinhugy]

cant download :/

[FirstEverTech]

Don't laugh, but I have this program compiled and installed on my computer, and although it still works, I don't know how I could share it with others. I could make a simplified version in PowerShell, but it won't be as pretty 🦖

[Rito95-bot]

Plz we need this

[FirstEverTech]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the interest in this project and for the questions about availability.

I created this patcher about a year ago mainly as a personal experiment. It’s a WinUI-based application built in Visual Studio 2022 and installed like a Microsoft Store app (visible in the Start Menu). The project works very well in practice — for example with Photoshop 2026 — but I want to be transparent about its limitations.

Some Adobe applications, such as Premiere Pro, actually rely on AVX2 instructions at runtime. In those cases, the patcher can unblock the installer, but the application itself (left completely unchanged) will not start. This is expected behavior and not a bug.

At the moment, I’m not very experienced with properly packaging and distributing this type of Visual Studio / WinUI project. The app works perfectly, but I still need to improve my skills around deployment, releases, and clean binary distribution. Because of that, I’m not distributing a ready-to-use installer yet. In my free time, I plan to clean the project up, improve the documentation, and learn how to publish it properly.

If someone urgently needs a solution in the meantime, I can also create a PowerShell-based tool that performs the same patching logic. It won’t look as polished as the WinUI app, but the functionality is identical — it unlocks Adobe installers on CPUs without AVX2 support.

Thanks for your patience and interest.

— Marcin

Here is proof of the latest version (27.3.1) of Photoshop 2026 running on a 2013 CPU that does not support the AVX2 instruction set — a requirement enforced by Adobe at the installer level only.

But why, Adobe? Why are you blocking older CPUs?