[sldev] Valve/Steam Hardware survey.

[Dzonatas]

Jason Giglio wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I tried it on my 1.3ghz P-M Tablet PC.... it doesn't get too far past 
the first render screen. Those kind of start-up issues have been in jira 
for awhile.

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