i had the same problem, i burned a few CD's of disc 1 but game would not start. But i got it working by mounting the image of cd1 with Daemon tools 3.47 with all emulation options turned on, did not w ...
I had the same problem playing Vampire : Bloodlines, to fix my problem i changed the AGP Aperture size in my mother boards bios, i just dropped the size down and it worked fine, might work for you als ...