Okay, I read the issues for the Mac side of the fence and tried to mitigate them as much as possible.
1)Installed the game into an XP bottle.
2)Changed the Torment.ini to Full Screen=0
3)Made a VD of 1024x768 and disabled the WM to decorate and control the windows
4)Installed DX9
Still no dice. In fact the only two things that work is the stupid register me nag screen (which did go away after the 3 "go aways") and the 16bpp depth.
FWIW -- F14 x64
TIA,
Andrew