Recent version of Flash needs SSE capable CPU ?

[Guest dave xnet]

There's a lot of reports in the Adobe Flash player forums

of crashes. It's occurring on those using older CPU's and

a consensus seems to have been derived between the posters

that indeed, SSE instructions have been hard coded into the player

with no regard in the code as to whether they are supported or not.

 

One thing that is conspicuous is the complete lack of any comment on

the subject amongst the various posting by any Adobe rep.

while they, in general, do make appearances and have commented freely

on some of the other topics.

 

Did Adobe just sneak it in with out making any announcement or

updating the Flash minimum requirements ? The whole thing seems

a little odd to me.

 

(Of course, my 98se box runs sans SSE, that's how I become familiar

with this issue.)

[Guest Dan]

RE: Recent version of Flash needs SSE capable CPU ?

 

Have you tried contacting Adobe about your concern(s) and if so what did they

say?

[Guest dave xnet]

Re: Recent version of Flash needs SSE capable CPU ?

 

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:11:00 -0700, Dan <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:

>Have you tried contacting Adobe about your concern(s) and if so what did they

>say?

I've posted and seen other posts in the Adobe Flash

forums, but no comments at all from Adobe.

 

I'm unable to find a system requirements or similar document

stating that an SSE-capable CPU is now necesssary for Flash.

 

Dave