SSE2 support?

[High1]

Hello

How would I know if my processor has SSE2 support (whatever that is!)?

Thanks.

High1

[Calum]

CPU-Z will tell you the instruction sets your CPU supports, including SSE2.  All modern CPUs support SSE2 though, so unless your PC is pretty old I'd be surprised if it didn't.

[High1]

No, it's quite a new Packard Bell PC.

Thanks for your reassurance and the link. I will download it.

Cheers, Callum

[Calum]

No problem at all.  Your CPU will almost certainly support SSE2 then, but CPU-Z is still a useful tool to check what else is supported and so forth.

[High1]

Yes, it looks a bit complicated but I will give it a go.

Thanks again.

High1

[Salmon Trout]

If the PC is less than 10 years old it almost certainly has it. SSE2, (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2), was  introduced by Intel with the first version of the Pentium 4 in 2001. AMD added SSE2 support with the Opteron and Athlon 64 ranges in 2003.

[High1]

It's about 18 months old.

I asked because it was an Adobe system requirement to have a 2.0 CPU. Mine is 2.6 so I got the software, but today I lost what I had been working on. A respected Adobe forum contributor said that the PC would not 'hold' the software (a movie-making programme called Premiere Elements 11) due to my CPU - it's a Celeron; 64-bit Windows 7. 4GB RAM and well over 200GB free.

It hasn't lost my work before, so I wasn't sure if what I had been told was correct.

Thanks for listening!

High1

[Salmon Trout]

A respected Adobe forum contributor said that the PC would not 'hold' the software (a movie-making programme called Premiere Elements 11) due to my CPU - it's a Celeron

That is nonsense. You lost whatever you lost for some other reason.

[High1]

That's what I tend to think. In Event Viewer, Windows specifically pointed to the Abode application with error 1000. I am using it now, so I'll see how it goes, prepared to reinstall if necessary.

Thanks!