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28 Jul 2024 14:23:34 EDT (-0400)
  SSE2 or non-SSE2? beta 29 put SSE2  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 4 Oct 2008 02:48:01
Message: <48e711a1$1@news.povray.org>
Instead of the beta 29 installing desktop/program shortcut/link to the usual 
pvengine.exe I discovered it was actually the pvengine-sse2.exe. I almost 
always use the sse2 anyway for its speed improvement so I was always making 
my own shortcut to it for all the prior betas I was using.

That's how I noticed this install had already done it for me, so I wanted to 
point that out here if it wasn't done so by design. Common sense tells me 
the installer would use the non-SSE2, so I was wondering if this was the 
intent or if somehow the installer knew I used SSE2 almost exclusively-- or 
selects it from CPU info it finds.

My brain is fuzzing up about what I did to use the SSE2 after installing 
beta 28 so I can't say what happened with that one, sorry. I almost never 
use the regular pvengine.exe after being spoiled by the choice of having 
SSE2 to render faster.

Bob


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