Hi Bluto, I have moved your post over to Glitches because I am guessing this is a technical problem. If this turns out not to be the case, we can move your post back over to Hints.
If your problem cannot be resolved, I would then recommend that you buy the game from GOG, where the game has been tweaked to run on newer systems without issue, and you can find the GOG purchase page
here. But I am getting ahead of myself - let's wait and see what the techies have to say.