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Offline P5music

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wine and SSE2 feature
« on: November 08, 2010, 01:53:18 PM »
Hello,
I am trying to install a windows program under wine in tinycore but at an early stage during installation I get:
"Your computer does not support SSE2 feature."
Is it a general wine issue or just related to the current wine extension?
Thanks

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2010, 02:23:18 PM »
Does that occur only with the specific windows app, or with any app?
Does the app install anyway or not?
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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 04:37:07 AM »
It happens just with one application that does not finish install procedure (Presonus Studio One), but I have to say I just tried a bunch of applications: Reaper, SampleTank, Kontakt, Java.

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2010, 08:16:55 AM »
First of all, does your cpu support SSE2? if not, it's not a bug anywhere.
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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2010, 08:20:58 AM »
I think so
this happens on a recent notebook acer aspire 5735z

Offline Juanito

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2010, 08:31:57 AM »
I seem to remember you can check the cpu info in one of the tabs on cpanel/stats

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2010, 08:55:37 AM »
in the "cpu" tab of cp/stats
I find "sse sse2 ss" at the "flags" line.

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2010, 11:24:10 AM »
Well wine was compiled with the standard tc flags -march=i486 -mtune=i686. To add sse2 support an additional flag -msse2 would be needed (I guess), but that decision is basically up to the designers of tc and the repo maintainer. I'm ready to submit such version ;-) So I think no bug at all, just a design issue?!
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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2010, 12:39:55 PM »
just for information:
I tested this feature on linux mint and it fails there too.

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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2010, 12:55:32 PM »
Have you checked if this windows app is supported by wine?
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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2010, 01:07:19 PM »
@gutmensch:

It should be of no use to have Wine itself use sse2 features. The apps' use of such is independent of Wine's.

IMO, a needless restriction on what cpus can run Wine, without hardly any benefit on those that can.
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Re: wine and SSE2 feature
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2010, 01:47:28 PM »
P5music,

Searching the AppDB of winehq I can't see any app with such a name.
Any pointers to what makes you believe it should work?
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