Well, the diagnosis:
Your clocking speed is too low. It's 2,4 GHz on a Quad Core whereas SSE requires a minimum of 3,0 GHz.
Your memory is okay at 3,3 GB.
DirectX is good at version 11.
Video card is NVIDIA 8800 GT which is okay.
So, I think the only problem is your processor which is a bit on the low side.
Hi VS,
You should stop advising people that thier CPU is too slow to run SSE when it simply is not true. I´m guessing here but from your posts I dont think you are qualified to give such advise no matter how well intended that advise is.
I dont want to go through it again but; Lamplighter (and Virtual Skipper) please re-read this thread: http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,26451.0.html because I thought that I had explained clearly about CPU class differences and given good references to back up my statments yet still people quote 3GHs as minimum a requirement.
Also please re-read the minimum specs required to run SSE. It clearly says that a "3 Ghz P4 Intel or AMD
equivalent processor" The clue is the word
equivalent. The P3 is gettiing to be a very old CPU and cannot be compared to modern Processors such as the Intel Q6600. It would be like comparing an engine from a 1980s Ford Escort 1.6 to a new Ford Focus 1.6 (Twin overhead cam, 16 valve fuel injected) the only thing they have in common is thay are both 1.6 litre.
Lamplighter please dont return you copy of SSE to the shop just yet, you have a fine system (the same CPU as me in fact). It will easily run SSE. The problems you discribed have all been seen before. Use the search funcion in the forum and you will see. Workarounds have been developed for most of the bugs and SSE patches have been issued to help. (make sure you are running version 1.4).
regards Syd