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Flash Player and Pentium 2 CPUs don't play nice together
Not sure how many of you this will affect, but it's well worth keeping in mind if you run the Flash Player on a PC built around the Pentium 2 processor.
Not sure how many of you this will affect, but it's well worth keeping in mind if you run the Flash Player on a PC built around the Pentium 2 processor.
Steps to reproduce: 1. Open any webpage with an embedded flash in any browser running on a Pentium 2 processor. Actual Results: Invalid instruction application exception. Expected Results: Just work Workaround (if any): None It appears unconditional SSE instructions have been compiled into the flash player since r115, causing flash to crash.
According to Adobe's own system requirements for Flash Player, the applications should play nicely with a Pentium II 450MHz or faster.