timeman Parx Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Now I'm getting worried, please do not make sse2 a recuierment,if so make it optional, able to turn offelse many will not be able to login at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 To late, they already did make it a requirement. And I doubt there are that many people with machines that don't support SSE2. You're the 10th person or so in the last 7 months to bring it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansariel Hiller Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I don't consider it a problem making SSE2 mandatory. Every CPU manufactured since 2003 has SSE2 support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireschen Hesten Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 SSE2 has been around 10years since intel introduced the pentium 4, recent processors from '09 onwards maybe earlier are now supporting SSE3 & SSE4 as well if you download http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html it will tell you if you have SSE2 amongst other things some SL viewers like Imprudence have standard and SSE2 installers of their viewers i think viewers like phoenix offer a choice of SSE2 or standard viewer during the installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 phoenix SSE2 is a separate download, and not the default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoebe Avro Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 a lot of machines that do have the chipset still have problems with it and that is why Phoenix produce two builds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psistorm Voxel Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I do appreciate switching to newer standards where applicable. SSE2 is by no means new or limited only to top end. However im curious as to what the gains from this change will be, for the end user, if there is a measurable effect or further implications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 The SSE2 code in the latest viewer is used for avatar skinning and weighted meshes mostly. You should see better performance when several animated avatars are in view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyaFiregirl Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 SSE2 is certainly not in every CPU made since 2003. I have a Compaq Presario sr1303wm (bought in 2005). OS: WinXP 32-bit (meets recommended) CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+, 2GHz (released in 2004, no sse2) (exceeds recommended, which doesn't mention SSE2 until you actually try to install it) Memory: 2 GB (exceeds recommended) Video: 1280x1024, ATI 9600XT (exceeds recommended) The main viewer worked last year, but coming back to it I need to run a third party viewer? Yay, another set of controls to learn. Or maybe I'll just punt secondlife and do something else with my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 KatyaFiregirl wrote: SSE2 is certainly not in every CPU made since 2003. I have a Compaq Presario sr1303wm (bought in 2005). OS: WinXP 32-bit (meets recommended) CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+, 2GHz (released in 2004, no sse2) (exceeds recommended, which doesn't mention SSE2 until you actually try to install it) Memory: 2 GB (exceeds recommended) Video: 1280x1024, ATI 9600XT (exceeds recommended) The main viewer worked last year, but coming back to it I need to run a third party viewer? Yay, another set of controls to learn. Or maybe I'll just punt secondlife and do something else with my time. Your machine uses the last CPU made that doesn't support SSE2. It's AMDs Barton core, first released February 10, 2003 as the Athlon XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshimitsu Kutenai Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 ATHLON XP 3200+ GEFORCE 7800GS 512MB 2GB RAM DUAL CHANNEL DDR400 NO SSE2, :matte-motes-angry::matte-motes-angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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