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Originally Posted by ISOFFICIAL  Pro Tools 8 uses certain SSE instructions for drawing and other performance critical code. We have found that some older models of AMD chips from the Athlon 64 X2 (Athlon X2, AMD K9) family do not support specific SSE instructions used by Pro Tools, even though they claim to be SSE compliant. On these AMD computers, Pro Tools 8 will not launch. |
This is where Digidesign is full of shit(what else is new?). All Amd procs from the 64 X2's on support full SSE. Only the older XP chips lacked SSE 2 early on.