Incompatability with AMD Cpu's ? Show me

[Guest]

I posted something similar a while back
and I never got a response

Well i saw another post today and read some posts and Fugger
mentioned AMD not compatable with a few things

I am interested ( Very Intersted ) in trying some software out and seeing it crash on me because i have an AMD processor.

Im very curious to what i cannot run.

Please let me know

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[MadCat]

Some games will make use of the SSE instruction set to compute additional lighting calculations on objects in the 3D world. The objects are brighter and more colorful for low lighting condition. The RTS games "Earth 2150", and the sequel "The Moon Project" has alternating day/night cycles as a feature. For non-SSE enabled system, it will forgo performing the additional lighting calculation, which leads to dull cold dark colored looking objects for low lighting conditions. It will run just fine on AMD system without crashing, but I'd wouldn't be as happy with the graphics.

 

[HolyGrenade]

Have you seen the game run on an AMD system, or are you just guessing?


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[Pettytheft]

I dont think it's the processer itself. It's the damn chipsets that are a bug. I get the same errors at times with my P3V4X as my A7V.

On my CUSL2 I rarely get a freeze or hangup. I've never even had to update my Bios or download the latest mobo drivers.

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[Kodiak]

I'm playing E2150 on my Tbird/Radeon... it is my understanding that since my card supports Hardware T&L and that directx supports it as well, the CPU doesn't do the lighting calculations itself in the first place...

regardless, the graphics look very purty on my machine
I haven't seen the game on P3, so I can't really say... but if I were to make an educated guess, I would say that graphic card and the monitor will make SO much more of a difference in the quality of picture, that comparing the effect of CPU is -impossible- unless the same monitor & Graphic card are used

 

[Guest]

Hmm

almost 70 views
and not one from Fugger or Meltdown
geee

Why not?

Come on Blue Men, tell me

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[Sojourn]

AMDMeltdown is busy shooting himself in the foot with his illiteracy in another post.

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[kurokaze]

Your CPU will run anything fine.. remember.. all a CPU does is add or subtract numbers.. if it doesn't have SSE instructions it'll simply execute more instructions to make up for it.. people don't realize that things like MMX, SSE/2 and 3DNow! are just "macro" calls that do the same thing as two or three other instructions would do.

Anyway, _IF_ there are any incompatibilities it will reside with your chipset not your CPU. Fugger and AMDMeltdown don't seem to realize that.

Cheers

 

[cutepunk]

It has more to do with chipset, not the CPU.
But I've heard some complicated calculation programs don't run on AMD machines... Even on Intel machines, I've heard that there are some programs that only run on Intel CPU+Intel Motherboard systems... oh well..

ATI RAGE FURY MAXX has a big trouble with AMD/VIA chipsets.. I'm a AMD760 user, and I tried to install my MAXX... I just couldn't do it.. crashes every 5 minutes, freezes on the first test of 3DMARK2000... sometimes just blacks out. It runs fine on my i820 machine.
ATA100 hard drives... It's almost impossible to install w2k. It does finish the install process, but in few days, I got "Fatal Hard Error" blue screen. After a few formats, I gave up. I think it has to do with VIA686B southbridge.

 

[Guest]

The Fury MAXX Crashes on many Intel chipsets too, like several of the Apollo Pro's.

~ I'm not AMD biased, I just think their chips are better. ~

 

[ksoth]

This will make FUGGER and AmdMeltdown happy. I know of one incompatibility with AMD CPUs. It is a program called BPM Studio, that will not work with AMD CPUs because of the external cache. The only way to make it work is to disable the cache in BIOS. But, new TBird/Durons have internal cache, but the program still does not work on my computer (Duron). I just found this out a couple days ago. Anyway, I suggest other people with AMD CPUs to go to www.bpmstudio.com and download the demo to see if it works on their computers, as it may be comething else about my computer that doesn't like it.

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[Grizely1]

I only know of one. Some stupid crap 56k modem, supra or something. FUGGER is always wailing away about it.

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[Guest]

It runs 100% fine on my duron

want a screenshot?



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[Booky]

I have a Diamond 56k modem, and the driver CD says supra on it. It works just fine on my new 1.33GHz. Is this the same modem you are talking about?

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[Kelledin]

Funny how I haven't seen FUGGER or AmdMeltdown posting here. Especially as AmdMeltdown's gone hog-wild recently, leaving droppings in a lot of other threads.

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[Grizely1]

it's one of the supra models, yes. i doubt it syours, obvoiusly

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[dhlucke]

The AMD processors are incompatible with Fugger and Amdmeltdown. Oh, and they are incompatible with skateboards and spoons. I can't get them to work with orgami or donuts either.

Oh well...

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[jlbigguy]

I have a Diamond Supramax 56. Works fine with my TBird.

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[BrainStorm]

I'm really interrested too. I personnally own an Athlon system, and any of the software I installed on it behaved strangely. I would like to see some examples. The only incompability's I heard of is hardware with certains chipsets. And very often they are adressed with updates. I think that some Pro Intel here are really misinformed here. And some will tell that with Intel we dont need those chipset drivers, it's completely false, they are just included with the OS.

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[munkey]

cutepunk that must something else in your configuration causiing the problem 'cause i am running an asus a7v with a maxtor ata100 HDD and windows 2k. been running fine crunching seti packets for three weeks. only three weeks because i just re-nstalled out of boredom.

 

[ksoth]

Now, can you actually play music on it? Cuz on mine it loads up fine, but if you try and play something it repeats the sound and locks up. I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out.

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[rcf84]

Well there is no AMD incompatability. This incompatability
is could 3 letters V-I-A thats all. Get rid of V-I-A the world is a better place.

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[ksoth]

No, the website specifically mentiond problems with AMD chips, in specific their external cache (but like I said before new AMD chips no longer have external cache so i wonder if there is still an issue with them).

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[Grizely1]

thats old A crap. no one uses that

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