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Shintai
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Posted - 2011.01.17 12:15:00 -
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Good to see CCP move forward. Both in terms of SM3 and now SSE2. It gives greater playing experience. And if you got such an old PC...its really time to upgrade.
Nothing worse than stuck in legacy times penalizing everyone.
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Shintai
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Arx Io Orbital Factories
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Posted - 2011.01.17 14:35:00 -
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Edited by: Shintai on 17/01/2011 14:36:40
 Originally by: Abramul
Edited by: Abramul on 17/01/2011 13:04:29
Question: is a 64-bit AMD processor running a 32-bit operating system affected?
(For the record, a 1.8 GHz processor with 2GB of RAM is quite capable of running EVE, although a bit borderline for running two clients in-space. With 1 GB of RAM, it runs into problems with 1 client if there's more than 200MB or so of background load)
+Edit: Is the warning message live on the test server?
Since its a 64bit capable CPU as well. It supports SSE2. Since x64 requires SSE2 as replacement for x87.
Originally by: Vaerah Vahrokha
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Good to see CCP move forward. Both in terms of SM3 and now SSE2. It gives greater playing experience. And if you got such an old PC...its really time to upgrade.
This does not give greater playing experience at all.
In a decent application, these features get auto-detected on startup and enabled OR, in the case of a computer lacking of them, software simulated.
Therefore those who already had a SSE2 capable computer will not see anything better, the others will have to thrash a computer perfectly functional for a mining or trading alt.
While all my computers run Win 7 64 or latest Debian, I can empathize with those who are cut out just because someone forgot to compile with SSE option enabled.
Its not that easy as such. Because the game will still hog on down to the lowest bar. Had it been a more independent app/game. Then sure I would agree with you.
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Shintai
Gallente
Arx Io Orbital Factories
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Posted - 2011.01.17 18:20:00 -
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Originally by: Bhattran
Originally by: Shintai
Good to see CCP move forward. Both in terms of SM3 and now SSE2. It gives greater playing experience. And if you got such an old PC...its really time to upgrade.
Nothing worse than stuck in legacy times penalizing everyone.
What might be worse is software development that drives people to ditch perfectly adequate hardware to spur sales of new hardware/software. If it works why do you need to trash it and get something new? The answer is we 'need' new software and won't support the old or decide to make use of technologies not present in the old, regardless if they are truly needed/useful. Hardware and software go hand in hand trying to get consumers spend money on new products all the while we toss out 'old' technology like it is worthless. Every year computer hardware is sent to the trash hopefully for recyclers to make money off of when disposed of properly and sent to a landfill when it isn't.
It all sounds nice and dandy. But in that case we should drive around in 50year old cars, run computers with 286 CPus and so on. Stay with PSTN modems because its a waste to upgrade to DSL and so on.
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