I recently decided to replay this after many years. I remember getting some great patches and mods from this forum and I'm glad to see it's been kept up!
Anyway, after I finally dug the game out of my closet and installed, it wouldn't load after the aforementioned screen. I remembered it not being that simple a few years back, so I lurked around the internet(mostly here) for a solution.
I applied the 1.02 patch, the latest Aalia custom driver(it doesn't need the game saves, right?) and even tried to skip the FMV using Gypinstant and YAMP(although I'm still not sure I'm doing it right) in case that was the problem.
Here's my specs:
Windows 7 X64
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
4400+ 2.20 GHz
Ram: 4 GB
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4600
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.