"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:48e74c78@news.povray.org...
> Bob Hughes wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, it's by design - the installer asks for system info and if it finds
> that SSE2 is available it will make the shortcuts point to the SSE2
> executable. However both binaries are installed, as before.


Glad you knew it was doing that. I thought it might have been about 
something else, like uninstall leftover shortcuts.

Wouldn't surprise me if I had made my own shortcuts to that SSE2 after the 
previous beta (28) installed and never realized it was already on the 
desktop and programs list! Meaning I could have been using it when I 
expected I was rendering with the regular pvengine.exe, if this was also 
done before (beta 28).

Thanks for the clarification. And as Warp has said, makes sense to use it by 
default. I didn't want to totally neglect the non-SSE2 during beta testing 
so maybe I can start doing the opposite thing when creating links to the 
other one after those install. Got to be a habit of making those myself 
before the installer came along.

Bob

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