Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So why do you need Windows 8? Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Sign my petition against the gun lobby: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/include-nra-list-terrorist-organizations-group-actively-promotes-killing-us-civilians/GgyPdyy4 YNWA On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > "Physical Address Extension (PAE), NX processor bit (NX), and Streaming > SIMD > Extensions 2 (SSE2) refer to features of the processor. PAE enables 32-bit > processors to access more than 4 GB of physical memory on capable versions > of > Windows and is a prerequisite for NX. NX allows the processor to help > guard the > PC from attacks by malicious software. SSE2 (a standard on processors for > a long > time) is an instruction set that is increasingly used by third-party apps > and > drivers. For Windows 8, for your malware defense features to work reliably > we > require that your processor support NX. To enhance the reliability of > third-party apps and drivers running in Windows 8, SSE2 is also required. > If > your PC doesn't support PAE, NX, and SSE2 you won?t be able to install > Windows > 8...." > > - Nicrosoft > > On 07/01/2013 00:25, Richard Man wrote: >> what CPU do you have? PAE probably refers to 64-bit x64 CPU. Any Intel PC >> made in the last 4-5 years have that. NX is no execution or something? So >> same thing, any 4-5 year old CPU should have that. SSE2 is the same, it's >> the multimedia SIMD extension that has existed since a number of years >> now. >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at >> summaventures.com>wrote: >> >>> FWIW. >>> >>> LR4 comes up with the need to have PAE (Physical address Extension) and >>> NX >>> bit >>> available to it plus something SSE2. I have the former and the latter but >>> don't >>> have NX on my chipset so..... and having spent GBP90 on s/w I don't want >>> to >>> spend GBP300 - 400 for a new server. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> On 06/01/2013 22:51, Richard Man wrote: >>>> ?? LR4 runs fine on most Windows PC? Not sure about problem >>>> descriptions? >>>> >>>> It may have problems with Windows 8, but that would probably just be W8 >>> and >>>> hopefully will be fixed by Microsquish. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I bought LR4 to go with my XPro 1 only to find that I can only run LR4 >>>>> over W8 >>>>> or a version of Windows supported by a chip having certain properties >>>>> implemented by Intel (PAE, NX, etc.) >>>>> >>>>> Since I don' want to buy a new computer as well does anyone have any >>>>> recommendations for an alternative to LR4 that can read RAW from an >>> XPRO-1? >>>>> >>>>> Currently I normally run PSE over XP which is fine for most apps. >>>>> >>>>> Peter >>>>> >>>>> PS I knew that film was cheaper!! >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> =========================================================== >>>>> Dr Peter Dzwig >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> =========================================================== >>> Dr Peter Dzwig >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >