IntelliJ IDEA 32-bit won't start on AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (Windows 7)
I have tested IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 on Xubuntu (LXQT - OpenJDK 8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.19.04.1 installed through apt), and it worked properly. So I installed Windows 7 to verify if IntelliJ IDEA works or not.
After IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3.5 has been installed, I installed JDK 8 update 202 with JRE 8 update 202, and here's the problem when starting.
When I tried to go to IntelliJ IDEA, I have followed the first steps to initialize it, and the splash screen appears. It loads all the way to 100%, and after few seconds the initial window (A window where you can create a new project, checkout from VCS, import projects, and change settings) has appeared. When the splash screen disappeared, and the initial window has resized, it crashes after ~500ms.
When I look at the java_error_in_idea file, I saw something interesting (EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION). That means that IntelliJ IDEA tried to access SSE2 instructions that my Athlon XP can't understand because it didn't have SSE2 instruction set. A full crash file is located in the bug report
System specs (only most relevant to this issue, not listing full specs):
- AMD Athlon XP 1500+
- KT4AV MS-6712
- Xubuntu 19.04 dev branch (OpenJDK 8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.19.04.1)
- Windows 7 (Java JDK 8u202)
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Please continue at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-209119 to avoid duplication.
Answered at https://stackoverflow.com/a/55217116/104891.