When starting NX, the the following error message is displayed;
"This processor is too old and not supported anymore"
NX then terminates.
Solution
Versions of NX V11 and higher make use of some new(er) SSSE3 instructions. The SSSE3 instruction set
was introduced in 2006.
There is now a test in NX to determine if the CPU you are using supports the SSSE3 instruction set and if these instructions are not present you will receive the error, "This processor is too old and not supported anymore".
What is the SSSE3 Instruction Set? According to Intel:
SSSE3 provide 32 instructions (represented by 14 mnemonics) to accelerate computations on packed integers. These include:
- Twelve instructions that perform horizontal addition or subtraction operations.
- Six instructions that evaluate absolute values.
- Two instructions that perform multiply and add operations and speed up the evaluation of dot products.
- Two instructions that accelerate packed-integer multiply operations and produce integer values with scaling.
- Two instructions that perform a byte-wise, in-place shuffle according to the second shuffle control operand.
- Six instructions that negate packed integers in the destination operand if the signs of the corresponding element in the source operand is less than zero.
- Two instructions that align data from the composite of two operands.
The following processors (CPUs) support the SSSE3 instruction set:
AMD:
Bobcat
Bulldozer
Piledriver
Intel:
Xeon 5100 Series
Xeon 5300 Series
Xeon 3000 Series
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Extreme
Core 2 Quad
Core i7
Core i5
Core i3
Pentium Dual Core
Celeron 4xx Sequence Conroe-L
Celeron Dual Core E1200
Celeron M 500 series
Atom
VIA:
Nano
NOTE: This list may not be all-inclusive. There may be other processors that also support this instruction set.
You can also visit the following WIKI page;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSE3
Notes and References
Hardware/Software Configuration
Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: 1064
Product: NX
Application: SYSTEM
Version: V1847
Function: WNT_OS_ISSUES
Ref: 001-7792779