Wow, I had no idea, but am not entirely surprised. Anecdotally, my Pentium 3 machine (forgot what GPU it had, sadly) back in 2004 was struggling with most mode

Wow, I had no idea, but am not entirely surprised. Anecdotally, my Pentium 3 machine (forgot what GPU it had, sadly) back in 2004 was struggling with most modern (for the time period) games that had even a hint of graphical fidelity. Max Payne 2, on the other hand, looked mindblowing and ran like butter.