It's a copy protection issue. I have the same problem. Max Payne had the same issues as well. DII had them also, but it only appeared as a slow startup. They all have safedisk in common. The fix, until Infogames does it properly, is to get the nocd binary off of gamecopy.com, the 1.07 version works for me, the 1.16 didn't.
Jason Pollock