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@Calinou Calinou commented Jul 10, 2025

  • Remove notice about Vulkan support on Windows versions older than 10, as Windows 10 is the minimum version for Godot 4.5 onwards.

Not cherry-pickable to 4.4, as this information only applies to 4.5+.

@Calinou Calinou added enhancement area:manual Issues and PRs related to the Manual/Tutorials section of the documentation labels Jul 10, 2025
@Calinou Calinou force-pushed the system-requirements-sse4.2 branch from e7efbe4 to 98ad11b Compare July 10, 2025 14:38
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While supported on Linux, we have no official minimum requirements for running on
rv64 (RISC-V), ppc64 & ppc32 (PowerPC), and loongarch64. In addition you must
compile the editor for that platform (as well as export templates) yourself,
no official downloads are currently provided. RISC-V compiling instructions can
no official downloads are currently provided. RISC-V compiling support can
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Was this an accidental change? "Compiling instructions" is correct.

@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ Desktop or laptop PC - Minimum
| **RAM** | - **Native editor:** 4 GB |
| | - **Web editor:** 8 GB |
+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| **Storage** | 200 MB (used for the executable, project files and cache). |
| **Storage** | 200 MB (used for the executable, project files and cache). |
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Not sure why this space was added here and in other places, but it broke the table.

@@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ Desktop or laptop PC - Minimum
.. which can run up to macOS 10.13.
+----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| **CPU** | - **Windows:** x86_32 CPU with SSE2 instructions, x86_64 CPU, ARMv8 CPU |
| **CPU** | - **Windows:** x86_32 CPU with SSE2 support, x86_64 CPU with SSE4.2 support, ARMv8 CPU |
| | |
| | - *Example: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200, AMD Athlon XE BE-2300, Snapdragon X Elite* |
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This AMD Athlon processor needs to be changed here and the 3 other places it shows up. From what I'm seeing on techpowerup here, and on wikipedia here, it doesn't support SSE4.2.

- Remove notice about Vulkan support on Windows versions older
  than 10, as Windows 10 is the minimum version for Godot 4.5
  onwards.
@skyace65 skyace65 force-pushed the system-requirements-sse4.2 branch from 98ad11b to de6b22c Compare July 20, 2025 14:19
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I've pushed a change to fix the table format, Revert the RISC-V wording change, and update the AMD CPU example.

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CI issue is due to a problem with the class reference, this page looks good though.

@skyace65 skyace65 merged commit 532a216 into godotengine:master Jul 20, 2025
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Thanks!

@Calinou Calinou deleted the system-requirements-sse4.2 branch July 20, 2025 18:14
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