Bought a new laptop on June 1st (I know), and tried to run GOTY edition after I blew the dust off it. I was extremely disappointed with it. Then I found this forum and spent an hour reading. I would have said thx a lot earlier. but have been too busy playing !
HP DX6, i5, 6 gigs ram, 1gig radeon card, win7.
I custom installed as advised, got the K-lite codec pack, did the msconfig thing,
Now the game runs nicely at medium settings, so big thx to the forum !