Uploaded May 2012 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Yes, this shows Need for Speed Most Wanted (a game from 2005!) running on a 233 MHz Pentium 1 MMX, 256 MB RAM. It has an NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 PCI card, and it running on Windows XP SP3.
I initially had a problem with the NVIDIA Forceware drivers, because they were pretty new. They tried using 6x86 instructions on the Pentium 1, so it would crash to a BSOD when NFS got to the main menu.
I had to go back all the way to a 2003 version of Forceware until I found it no longer crashed! I am very, very surprised the game itself runs on a Pentium 1 MMX, I totally expected it to try using SSE instructions but it ended up working.
Yes, this shows Need for Speed Most Wanted (a game from 2005!) running on a 233 MHz Pentium 1 MMX, 256 MB RAM. It has an NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 PCI card, and it running on Windows XP SP3.
I initially had a problem with the NVIDIA Forceware drivers, because they were pretty new. They tried using 6x86 instructions on the Pentium 1, so it would crash to a BSOD when NFS got to the main menu.
I had to go back all the way to a 2003 version of Forceware until I found it no longer crashed! I am very, very surprised the game itself runs on a Pentium 1 MMX, I totally expected it to try using SSE instructions but it ended up working.
