[sldev] Valve/Steam Hardware survey.

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 13:12:48 PDT 2007


Dzonatas wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> We've been over this. MMX has been around for a while, no one can
>> reasonably expect to run SL on a CPU without MMX. But its those pesky
>> 1-1.4ghz Athlon Thunderbirds that prevent us from requiring SSE.
>>   
> 
> Is there a jira task to support Thunderbirds? I didn't find any in the 
> public jira.
> 

It's in the official minimum requirements.  But there's no requirement 
that SL run fast on those chips, so if it's just going to be slower on 
those chips, I say go for it.  SL is probably already pretty horrible on 
such chips, making it a little worse isn't going to matter much.


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