I installed the MYTH rip. It ran fine for a few days and then started hanging at the splash screen. The same installation continued to work fine back in win98. I then deleted gimme.dll and bam! its working again.... boy am I happy.
I'm running a PIII600 Aopen ax6bc pro mobo, matrox G400 with and SB awe64..... But it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue at all.