Reply 40 of 47, by Falcosoft
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Hi,
I have made a video about using SSE/3DNow under 1st edition of Win95. For testing I have used my MandelX fractal generator and SoftIce:
https://youtu.be/ivJxALS7JyA
Conclusion:
If you start sse.com in autoexec.bat (without loading EMM386 in config.sys) then you can use SSE/SSE2/3 under Win95, but only with 1 program. Using more than one SSE capable programs simultaneously can cause problems/ crash. 3DNow can be used without any restrictions and you do not need special tools like sse.com. If OS supports saving/restoring FPU registers (Win95 does) then it automatically also supports MMX registers that 3DNow uses.
For confirming if a program really uses a given instruction set under Win95 I think SoftIce is the best tool.