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mwilsnd / SkyrimSE-SmoothCam

A thirdperson camera mod for Skyrim Special Edition
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What's AVx and OldCpu means? (Not an issue, just a question) #27

Closed riskirills66 closed 3 years ago

riskirills66 commented 3 years ago

Can you be more specific? Is it the x86 or x64 cpu?

mwilsnd commented 3 years ago

AVX is a specific set of instructions your processor may or may not be able to execute, Generally, processors made after 2011 should all be able to run AVX instructions. SmoothCam does a lot of matrix multiplication and vector math (which can be done faster using AVX) so being able to use AVX can provide a small performance gain - worth it if you have a million mods installed.

For people with older processors that don't support the AVX instruction set I publish a second version - OldCPU - which doesn't use it, so people can still use the mod.