Well, I really don’t know what to say.

Mudbox 2011 runs just great.

Also Maya 2012 runs fine (apart some stupid issues)

Thing is that in my opinion there’s something wrong in Mudbox 2012 init configuration, but may be I am wrong.

Sure is that this is annoying.

Yeah, I know, that’s why I am really surprised.

Anyway, may be my laptop configuration and op system can help you guys to give me a hand:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000
4 GB DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce 9600M GT

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Everything has always been working fine until yesterday :(

Andrew Camenisch 11 April 2011 03:21 PM

Mauro Sanna 09 April 2011 07:44 PM

I am trying to make Mudbox 2012 start on my laptop, but it keeps showing me this stupid error message:

“Mudbox requires a CPU that supports SSE3.”

Mauro, this is really strange.  Is there anything special about your setup?  For example are you running Mudbox under a virtual machine?  If not, can uninstall 2012, delete preferences and then try downloading and installing 2012 again?  Maybe the install file got corrupted or something.

If anyone else has encountered this issue, please let us know.

I have a regular computer, not a virtual machine. It’s a laptop, an Acer Aspire 8930G, with an intel Core 2 Quad processor Q9000 (2.0 GHz, 1066Mhz FSB, 6 MB L2 cache).
So there is really nothing wrong with this and the CPU definitely support SSE3.

Mudbox installs just fine, with no errors at all. But as soon as I try to run the software it comes with that incomprehensible message which doesn’t make any sense.

I already tryied to uninstall, delete the preferences and everything else but the result is just the same, every time.

I will try to download the installer again and see what happens, but I am afraid that there is something wrong in the way this new Mudbox handles the hardware: it just messes everything up.

I’ll let you know, meanwhile I hope that someone can help me sort this thing out.

Thank you

Mauro

robinball 12 April 2011 07:34 AM

I also have an Acer Aspire laptop. A Core 2 Duo one, so older. I haven’t tried to install Mud 2012 on it yet, but I’ll try and give it a go this evening and see what happens.

Good!

Let us know how it goes :)

If it ran on yours robin, and it probably would run on my Core2Duo 64-bit.  It could be how his machine is setup ? I could put a Quad CPU in my laptop, but there difficult mobile chip to find.

So, there is no real reason for my laptop not being able to run Mudbox 2012.

May be is a 64 bit Mudbox issue?

Yeah, I am just running out of reasons :)

Actually, Mudbox 2011 was working.

Instead, as soon as I tried to run 2012 it gave me that error.

Of course I first go rid of Mudbox 2011 and its preferences, then I installed Mudbox 2012.

Everything is 64 Bit.

Mudbox 2011 didn’t.

I hope this 2012 doesn’t too. Anyway, tonight I am going to try another installation, I hope it’ll succeed.

Done.

No success, unfortunately. I have to think about something else to sort this out.

You can count on it, I will.