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I noticed that it says in the game specs that an Intel Pentium is required to play. What about other CPUs like the AMD or Cyrix?

April 26, 2017AMD CPU Intel noticed Pentium play Specs

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I noticed that it says in the game specs that an Intel Pentium is required to play. What about other CPUs like the AMD or Cyrix?

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“It will support Pentium, Cyrix, or AMD chips. Actually, anything that’s pentium-compatiable will run it. BUT both Cyrix and AMD chips are notoriously slower when it comes to floating-point math. So, graphics programs, multi-media, and other programs are great, but when you get to 90% of the sims out there, with physics models, you’ll see a speed hit. Not just us, just about any sim is like this. Pentiums for some reason kick butt with floating point math, dunno why… In any case it’s still very playable whichever chip you’ve got. THe speed decrease isn’t huge or unplayable. Instead of 20-25fps, you might have to deal with 18fps… heheh” – Icky.