Comment on Anon's PC works
Metz@lemmy.world 4 days agoThat is only really a problem for CPUs one would consider today as ancient like a Pentium 3 from 1999 because it doesn’t have e.g. SSE2 support. Everything after that should work without any problems.
With older or slower CPUs performance may suffer, of course, but that is not a compatibility question.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Well it doesn’t, again, 2012, gives errors and doesn’t run not performance, idk what else to say except maybe to ask if you have tested this yourself
Metz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Then it was an software problem. It can’t be the CPU. unless you were using something very old. maybe the problem got solved when you reinstalled the system after you got your new CPU.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I didn’t reinstall the OS after getting the new CPU, but had done so multiple times before that.
You’re welcome to elaborate on your reasoning for this but I get the impression you haven’t tested it yourself, and I am saying, based on my experience, that you are wrong about it. Why exactly you’re wrong, I don’t know, but it’s wrong.
My point is this: someone with 10+ year old hardware should not be expecting to be able to run most games on linux because it likely won’t work. If you’re not yourself playing games on such a system you shouldn’t be advising people otherwise, because you don’t know.
Metz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You were claiming that some libraries had limited support for CPUs from 2012, which is simple said absolute and utter nonsense.
You are also trying to pin Vulcan problems on CPUs. Which is nonsense as well, since Vulkan has absolutely nothing to do with CPUs since it is a graphics API using the GPU. The only thing that may be is that you were using the integrated GPU built in your CPU, which was not compatible with Vulkan instead of using your dedicated GPU.
In that case, it could explain why changing the CPU fixed the problem, but it was actually never a problem of the CPU itself but a configuration error on your part.
And as said, Wine will run on absolutely anything that came after a Pentium III, so it is very much impossible that your CPU that was from 2012 could not run Wine. But it would be of course very helpful if you would actually tell us what CPU you had.
And yes, i tested it. My old CPU was a Phenom 2 from 2010 and Wine ran just fine with it and still does . And i very clearly gave you the reason in my first post. Which is Wine requiring SSE2.
Man, i even can play some older games with Wine on my Dell XPS M1330 Laptop which came out in 2007. That thing runs an ancient Dual-Core. This needs some tinkering though.