There's this [Search] function here, which could spare me so much trouble, if people were only considering to use that, really.

Either your machine is too old, or you need to update your system. If you have windows 8, you have to update to windows 8.1 first, then update your graphics drivers. If your OS is updated already, you may only have to update your graphics drivers. But, again, if your system/graphics card is too old, Verve cannot work.