Save Empire Earth

In my experience all versions of empire earth struggle to run on netbook hardware.
I'd like people to post their versions/issues/fixes and I will update this post regularly.

eMachines 250-01g16i

• The game would crash as the main menu loaded.
• By plugging it into a second monitor and setting it as primary, I was able to bypass this crash.

HP 210 1000sa

• The game crashes as the main menu loaded.
• No fix found (yet).

It's just like you say, EE has a tough time running on netbook hardware. The drivers written for the on-board video isn't really designed for playing games. You're lucky to have found that one work-around.