everything runs find until loading the first mission on 'building scene' it gets stuck and nothing happened's for a while and then it crashes!

anyway to fix this?

I have heard that folks running AMD/ATI cards tend to have issues running this... do you pray tell have one?

It's not working here either. I tried it on Windows XP SP3 and I tried it on Windows 7 SP1 and it comes up with a black screen as others have reported. As soon as you click anywhere, it crashes to desktop.

My system has an Nvidia card.

I seem to be having the same problem. Anyone here have any luck solving this?

I have an AMD card and could not get it to work until I used a utility called DXwnd.

https://www.gog.com/forum/rainbow_six_tom_clancys/amdati_cat_134_solution

Have you tried playing the game with dgVoodoo? I also had that same problem once but I found out that I had the game running twice on the background :D