I posted this up on the super PC friendly sister-site Tested.com, but I figured I'd post this little inquiry here as well.
 

 So I downloaded Microsoft Game Room on my desktop today, and it's pretty cool. I bought Jungler (of coarse) and have been playing on the PC and Xbox just fine. In a perfect world, I'd be able to install Game Room on my tiny netbook I got for Christmas. Unfortunately, when I try to run gameroom, I get this message: "Game room requires a video card that supports shader model 3.0 -  your video card does not meet these requirements."
 
Which is totally predictable and understandable. I didn't get the NetBook for games, anyway (although it will run WoW just fine, slow, but fine.)
 
I'm just bummed because I figured the NetBook could handle 30 year old games, but it's the client built around these games that the Netbook can't handle. Is there anything you can do to... I don't know, YOU'RE the PC experts, not me. Any help would be awesome (But I'm just going to assume I'm shit out of luck.) 

Well the plan is to eventually have more and more powerful games, it seems, so having a higher overall system requirement set would allow room to grow in the future.  
 
Still for the time being Microsoft should make a version without the 3D wrapper element.  Until then, you're shit outta luck.

" Sort of like this? "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" Sort of like this? "

Forgive me for not noticing some douche and his 'lol system requirements' thread.  ...also, it should have been in the Jungler forum. "

" @TooWalrus: Which netbook do you own? "

" @TooWalrus:  To be honest, I have an Aspire 1410, which has a dual-core processor, and playing anything past 2000 is basically a pipe dream.  I've found Tycoon games are your best bet, as long as you stick to your classics. I've put about 40 hours into Open-Transport Tycoon Deluxe, I got to rediscover and old classic, and had a total blast doing it. "

Its a pretty annoying thing since currently the only that seems like it would need shader model 3.0 is the interface.