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| 286096 | 2004-10-29 22:24:00 | Hi Purchased a budget priced game yesterday and tried to install it on my Celeron 1.7GHz pc. Well it told me I didn't have a Pentium CPU and refused to install. The minimum spec is a Pentium II 266. I think mine is just a bit faster than that :) |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 286097 | 2004-10-29 23:06:00 | Do you have (or have access to) another PC that might just have a Pentium CPU you could install to? Then just copy the whole install folder from one to the other and it should work :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 286098 | 2004-10-30 00:22:00 | That's quite a common problem. It's a natural result of limited precision mathematics, and the impossibility of predicting the future. Your 1.7 GHz will round to a negative speed in 32 bit signed arithmetic. Any negative number is "smaller than" 266, so your CPU is too slow. :D The computer can't lie. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 286099 | 2004-10-30 01:20:00 | Yes it is amazing how many times I've come across programs that have used the wrong integer type. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 286100 | 2004-10-30 01:28:00 | It wasn't "wrong" when the code was written, perhaps 5 or 10 years ago. Of course your remark is very true generally... I shudder to think of the amount of "computing" which is done by code written by prople ignorant of numerical methods. I was not impressed when I found a compiler option which would give an interrupt for integer over/underflow in a mini. The default was not to give errors. :D This of course makes programmesrun faster. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 286101 | 2004-10-30 01:40:00 | > This of course makes programmesrun faster. Like in a car with a concrete wall ahead and no seatbelt on. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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