I had a similar problem running the demo on a WinMe Laptop. In 16-bit fullscreen mode, it would load and run quite quickly, but I couldn't see the writing, or the mouse pointer. In both windowed, and 32-bit modes, it would load and run fine, other than being slow to a point way past unplayability. It works fine on my win2k machine. I thought it may have been a driver/vid card prob.