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BaBBoS posted 04-10-99 08:23 PM ET
I got a second box in my office, its an AMD 486@133mhz (p75 simul) ... the game says clearly that it cant play on anythin else than a pentium but im possitive that my 133mhz box can run it well... ive tryed everything that was included in the readme file, and yet every time the game says to me that the cpu is not supported, either i press ok or cancel it returns me to my desktop... iz ti a lost case?
BaBBoS
ChairmanLee posted 04-15-99 03:23 PM ET
I have run into simular problems before. It seems that allot of the programs you buy now days are looking for Intel or Intel like chips. The older ADM's and Cyrix chips don't pass some of the tests. I had to get a patch that fixed the problem with my DR WHO game when I had an older Cyrix a P166 chip.

Mental posted 04-15-99 05:05 PM ET
As far as I've seen SMAC won't run reliably on older Cyrix and AMD K5's. Might also effect non-MMX K6's but not sure cause I've seen that message on a K6-166 and then it worked fine on another system with that CPU.
*shrug*
Works fine with IBM/Cyrix MMX chips, MII's, MMX K6's, K6-2's, and K6-3's.
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Author	Topic: Got an AMD 486@133...
BaBBoS	posted 04-10-99 08:23 PM ET I got a second box in my office, its an AMD 486@133mhz (p75 simul) ... the game says clearly that it cant play on anythin else than a pentium but im possitive that my 133mhz box can run it well... ive tryed everything that was included in the readme file, and yet every time the game says to me that the cpu is not supported, either i press ok or cancel it returns me to my desktop... iz ti a lost case? BaBBoS
ChairmanLee	posted 04-15-99 03:23 PM ET I have run into simular problems before. It seems that allot of the programs you buy now days are looking for Intel or Intel like chips. The older ADM's and Cyrix chips don't pass some of the tests. I had to get a patch that fixed the problem with my DR WHO game when I had an older Cyrix a P166 chip.
Mental	posted 04-15-99 05:05 PM ET As far as I've seen SMAC won't run reliably on older Cyrix and AMD K5's. Might also effect non-MMX K6's but not sure cause I've seen that message on a K6-166 and then it worked fine on another system with that CPU. shrug Works fine with IBM/Cyrix MMX chips, MII's, MMX K6's, K6-2's, and K6-3's.