I got the game on a mag cover a couple years back, and only remembered about it a few days ago.

Installation went correctly.
I ran the game.

When I try to start a mission - ANY mission - the game just freezes with a black screen. No error messages, no crash - it completely hangs, and Compatibility Modes don't help jack.

My computer is a Sempron 2500+ on ASRock K7 (I think it was K7, might actually be K8) motherboard with 1 GB RAM and an AGP Radeon 9600. The operating system is Windows XP with integral Service Pack 2. Last time I updated drivers for my graphics card was about a year ago, when I reinstalled my system.