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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: P5music on November 08, 2010, 01:53:18 PM

Title: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: P5music 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

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: tinypoodle 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?

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: P5music 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.

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: curaga on November 09, 2010, 08:16:55 AM

First of all, does your cpu support SSE2? if not, it's not a bug anywhere.

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: P5music on November 09, 2010, 08:20:58 AM

I think so
this happens on a recent notebook acer aspire 5735z

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: Juanito 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

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: P5music on November 09, 2010, 08:55:37 AM

in the "cpu" tab of cp/stats
I find "sse sse2 ss" at the "flags" line.

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: gutmensch 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?!

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: P5music on November 09, 2010, 12:39:55 PM

just for information:
I tested this feature on linux mint and it fails there too.

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: tinypoodle on November 09, 2010, 12:55:32 PM

Have you checked if this windows app is supported by wine?

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: curaga 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.

Title: Re: wine and SSE2 feature
Post by: tinypoodle 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?