I did a similar thing to Zacman. stumbled across a spare MTW gold disc and box and popped it onto a Windows 7 Home Prem 32 bit U230 netbook. 2 gig ram and 128 ati dedicated graphics. Game seemed to install and load ok withoout mega delays. selected england as starting faction and as soon as i clicked on and moved an agent piece the game crashed with a message 'med tw exe has stopped working'.
This game really hates me.