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From: Henry Stock on 27 Jul 2010 07:52 Can anyone tell me why Silverlight will not work with AMD processors? Silverlight can't be loaded with my AMD Athalon CPU and I asked about some of the newer AMD CPUs. The retailer told me not to expect to be able to use Silverlight. It seems kind of dumb to build a technology that cuts out a sizable portion of the market.
From: Brian Cryer on 27 Jul 2010 08:19 "Henry Stock" <henry(a)the-stocks.org> wrote in message news:OziIzIYLLHA.6100(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Can anyone tell me why Silverlight will not work with AMD processors? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=silverlight+amd Silverlight requires the SSE instruction set and some of the older AMD processors don't provide this. (Presumably this is a problem with older CPUs not just AMD ones.) FYI: SSE = Streaming SMID Extensions - see http://everything.explained.at/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions/ for details. > Silverlight can't be loaded with my AMD Athalon CPU and I asked about some > of the newer AMD CPUs. The retailer told me not to expect to be able to > use Silverlight. Should be fine with a newer CPU - if in doubt check that the processor supports SSE. If it doesn't work with your retailers PCs then they are probably shifting old stuff, so go somewhere else. > It seems kind of dumb to build a technology that cuts out a sizable > portion of the market. Agreed, but I'm sure the developers had what seemed like good reasons at the time. -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian
From: Registered User on 27 Jul 2010 08:55
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:52:31 -0400, "Henry Stock" <henry(a)the-stocks.org> wrote: >Can anyone tell me why Silverlight will not work with AMD processors? > >Silverlight can't be loaded with my AMD Athalon CPU and I asked about >some of the newer AMD CPUs. The retailer told me not to expect to be >able to use Silverlight. > Check http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/3805/311563.aspx for details about the why? Note the date of the thread as being August 2007. >It seems kind of dumb to build a technology that cuts out a sizable >portion of the market. > Apparently there were no problems with RC1 and AMD's new (as of 2007) Athalon XP processor. regards A.G. |