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Do Nvidia OpenGL drivers for Windows XP use SSE?

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First post, by Mouldotron

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Greeting all, sorry I've not posted in a while.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting anything that needs OpenGL to work in Windows XP sp3, on any of my PCI Nvidia cards (inc FX5200, GT210 and GT610). These are straight PCI cards not AGP or PCI-e.

Direct3D is no problem.

The system is a twin Pentium II 450 with 1gb of ram, and as such has no SSE instructions. I'm wondering if the drivers need SSE maybe?

If I put a 3DFX card in there then games like Q3 and RTCW work ok, but not with an Nvidia card. I get a BSOD as soon as it tries to load.

Has anyone had similar issues?

Thanks so much for your help

Reply 1 of 1, by elszgensa

Posted on Today, 16:50

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Can't say anything either way about those drivers, but if the cause for a crash/BSOD is SSE (or some other unsupported instruction) then I'd expect to see an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION.

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