Wow, defensive much? The fact that the Virge is a very good 2D card is pretty much a consensus on Vogons and the compatibility and speed in VESA is well known. As for 3D, it IS terrible, I am just saying that the first generation of 3D accelerators was all like that. By your standards every first …

JayCeeBee64, why the shocked reaction? Do you have an idea how software rendered games actually ran in the mid-90s? View this video from 11:44 on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jChtlWNIAL4 and you'll see, also a demonstration of why using a powerful period incorrect CPU for vintage videocards is …

The Virge is 1995 technology. Try running 3DMark 99 in software mode on a Pentium 100 (a high end PC at the time)... well you can't. The Virge is not exactly a quick card in 3D accelerated mode, but to say nothing can save it because it runs 3DMark 99 badly is not really meaningful - ANY card from …

One day Crisis 12 is going to come out and it will require a gigawatt power supply unit, 20 CPUs, 3 buckets full of DDR46 RAM, four latest GFX cards and a petabyte of drive space. If you're the kind out guy who wants to play Crisis 12, then yeah, 32 bits won't cut it for you. As for me, I'm …

not surprising at all , XP is 13 years old, and applications/games moved on to 64bit years ago. Im actually surprised XP lived that long, I mean looking back Microsoft tended to support their operating systems for around 6-8 years at best. Although interestingly I do know some people who still use …