[cod] Server Crashing on Startup

Georgecooldude georgecooldude at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 11:54:57 EST 2008


I'm wondering if I were to put some virtualisation software on the machine
and then install linux and cod4 ontop would this be a workaround? Or would I
still be limited by the physical hardware not being supported?

On Dec 29, 2007 10:23 PM, Jared Bell <jarbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I switched from a K7 800Mhz to a Pentium 3 1000MHz and it worked fine.
>
> I think it may require SSE or some other instrution set. I think Athlon
> XP's have SSE, but not original Athlons.
>
> On Dec 29, 2007 4:49 PM, Georgecooldude <georgecooldude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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