Howdy,
I want to buy a game a 5,99 $ from gog.com this weekend but I don't know if it fits my setup. I've Jagged Alliance 2 and JA2 Wilfire, ProPinball BRUSA, Fallout 1 and the free Beneath a steel sky in my library.
My Setup is: a Sony Vaio W11 Netbook (1366x768 resolution max), 1GB with Windows 7. Mostly I like round-strategy and simulations or epic action (I want to get a lot of content for my money for having an awesome weekend in front of my computer) but I'm not sure if the games I prefer will run witth my configuration- especially to run in widescreen and windows 7.
Have you tried Imperial Glory, Advent Rising, Bloodrayne on your netbook?
Do you have any other recommendations form the gog.com portfolio?
Cheers,
smuenzer

Yep. I recommend Die by the Sword. It looks iffy on widescreen - I know because I tried it on my netbook - but it works, and is boatloads of fun. One of those games where you'll never get bored of, because you can just pick up and play anytime.

Prince of Persia ought to run on it, right? Needs a gamepad for maximum enjoyment, though.

Intel GMA 950, good or not, I don't know.

the GMA 950 is the worst graphics chip you can get in a computer that they currently make.
however, we have several netbook gamers on this forum
everything you need should be in the netbook playability thread
maybe it will run, but i doubt it could be anywhere near playable
advent rising and bloodrayne are almost certainly too much for a netbook, imperial glory is iffy but i think it might be playable

It's good enough to play most games on here.
And it'll play Bloodrayne 1, not so sure about BR2 though.

yeah, because the worst we make today is still better than the best graphics cards ten years ago. gog is the best place for netbook games.
you've tried bloodrayne?

Hm... the BR1 demo and the Imperial Glory trial didn't work on my netbook. I don't know if this depends in Windows 7 or the old demo file itself but perhaps the fullgame version from gog.com won't work too. What do you think?

I know Sanitarium runs near perfectly (had a bit o slow down in a fast panning video but that might have been the video itself).
Anything like broken sword, lure of the temptress, simon the sorcerer etc should be perfect. I'd be willing to risk any game pre-2000 and just do a bit of research on the minimum resolution on anything later than say 2003-4 (it was about then that 1024*768 became the default res and most netbooks don't get that high)

well gog doesn't win7-proof their games yet, but the vista compatibility they add may help it play on win7. sounds like a risk though, and having owned a netbook for a long time i am pretty skeptical that BR and Advent Rising, especially, have any chance of working

No, i run Linux on my netbook, so I haven't run any Gog games on it.
But my guess is that a GMA 950 is good enough. It only requires Dx8.1 or OpenGL 1.2

yeah but... that really doesn't matter...
the chip doesn't support any shaders, has a tiny amount of shared video ram, no hardware T&L, it's just not made for anything more than video playback or crunching a few polygons

Let's put it this way-the GeForce 4 Go 420 32 MB in my TC1100, which is a GeForce 4 MX in mobile form with a pathetic amount of slow VRAM, would still utterly SPANK a GMA950 (it at least has HT&L!)...and yet the latter somehow runs Aero in Vista/Win7 (and Quartz Extreme + Core Image in OS X, even more jarringly). I'm guessing it's because Intel has the shaders emulated on the CPU, whereas NVIDIA or ATI would never settle for that and just limit the capability bits instead.
Nevertheless, old games like you tend to find here should still run somewhat decently. The DOS-based ones generally don't have graphics acceleration anyway, and older Direct3D/OpenGL titles from the late 1990s or so probably wouldn't totally choke.

Hmm... wasn't it Intel that created the horrendous AC'97 sound chip/card/I-say-I-can-do-anything-but-really-just-pass-it-off-to-the-CPU as well? Oh, yeah, and USB, which is basically the same thing for connection between devices (I can talk to anything, if only the CPU tells me _exactly_ how to do it).