BG requires:
166 MHz CPU, 16 MB RAM, 2 MB video card RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive, DirectX 5.0, 300 MB available hard disk space, Windows 95

BG II requires:
200 MHz CPU, 32 MB RAM, 4 MB video card RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive, DirectX 7.0, 800 MB available hard disk space, Windows 95

TOB increases the processor speed required to 233 Mhz

I'm running All the BG games on Win7 32-bit too so that won't be a problem. Your system should be more than powerful enough to run the BG games. Only the Intel graphics chipset could cause some issues but disabling hardware acceleration should avoid issues there.

OK, so after a few failed DL attempts, and a few failed integrity checks, I got a clean (uninterrupted DL) copy of the .exe file, skipped the integrity check, and . . . nothing.

I read another post from someone with a similar Asus netbook as mine, and it said the install started 5-6 mins after skipping the integrity check. So I waited 15 mins and . . . nothing.

Any advice on what I could try next?

Do you have User Account Control enabled in Windows 7? It's on by default and others have reported compatibility issues with it.

If so, disable it and try again.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-uac-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/

Cheers Alondrix. Worked like a charm.

Related (kind of) question:

If I have BG installed on 2 laptops (one running Vista the other Win 7), can I just move the save game file back and forth to play the same game on mulitple machines?

Yeah, there should be no issues with that.

Hi,
I tried both on my EEEPC 1025C (cedar trail dual core @1.86GHz) and they are both unplayable on Win7 - annoyingly slow (like a couple frames/sec) and with a ton of graphical glitches (usually one third to half screen is not rendered correctly).
To be honest I tried the Atari version (it came for really cheap along with other infinity games a few days ago), not the gog.com version, but I'm afraid it doesn't take advantage of multicore processors...

That's a known issue, the next link shows how to solve it:

http://www.shsforums.net/topic/48732-ddraw-fix-for-slowdownsstuttering/

I didn't install the weidu fix as it didn't fix the slowdowns (just the graphical errors) I just put the 3 files from the zip in my BG directory and it ran flawlessly without graphical errors.

"open wined3d.exe inside of 7zip
and extract libwine.dll, wined3d.dll, and ddraw.dll from $SYSDIR into your torment folder
( adds a few seconds to the game's startup time, but worth it. )"

thanks, this worked perfectly with BG1 :-)
I will try with the other games, but since they use the same engine I think we are ok!