Oh shoot. After the months of research I did before purchasing the 6K Pro, I still missed this. I think… I’m out of luck until I can afford a new computer…
Mark Foster wrote:and if you use an old cMP - cant read the new braw 2,0 files,
because of missing the avx instruction in the old xeons :- (
I hope BMD will listen to us
from Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:38 am
cMP = Classic Mac Pro, which is what I have.
And there is this from an article about EVX and older Macs:
“If you own or rely heavily on a Mac Pro cheese-grater in your studio then this issue may affect you in the near future as it’s down to something called AVX support.
What Is AVX Support?
AVX is short for Advanced Vector Extensions which is also known as Sandy Bridge New Extensions. AVX are extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture for microprocessors from Intel and AMD proposed by Intel in March 2008.
These were first supported by Intel with the Sandy Bridge processor that shipped in Q1 2011 and later on by AMD in Q3 2011. AVX provides new features, new instructions and a new coding scheme to allow for better performance, which all sounds great but where does this leave those who run old Mac Pro Cheese-graters?
The old Mac Pro may not be the only type of computer lacking AVX. If you own a computer similar in age then you can perform a quick internet search to find out if your system’s processors includes AVX.”
And from Dwaine Maggart on Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:06 pm:
Dwaine Maggart wrote:To be more explicit, BRAW requires AVX, AVX2 or SSE4.1 minimum support.