[cod] Server Crashing on Startup

[Georgecooldude]

I get this same error with an AMD Athlon 1.2ghz (not the XP model). I guess
this is also the cause of my illegal instruction error messages?

How about if I virtualised the server? Is this a workaround or is there no
way around this?


On Dec 12, 2007 7:15 PM, Jared Bell <jarbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> SSE perhaps?
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 12:44 PM, Jared Bell <jarbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just curious, but why P3 instead of generic 686?
> >
> >
> > On Dec 12, 2007 6:51 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > I've been having this problem since 1.0. Tried on 1.3 as well.
> > > > Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> > >
> > > You probably have either an old x86 processor (a K6 or Pentium II?),
> > > or
> > > some strange variant of an x86 processor (a Transmeta Crusoe?), or
> > > you're running the game on an emulator/vm that doesn't allow some
> > > modern
> > > x86 instruction.
> > >
> > > The server is compiled with -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium4 ( i.e. --
> > > optimize as if there's a pentium4 in the machine, but don't use
> > > opcodes
> > > that'll crash an Athlon MP), so there is probably some minor
> > > collateral
> > > damage for unusual configurations.
> > >
> > > And no, I will not be changing this in a future build, sorry.
> > >
> > > --ryan.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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