1.7 demo not working on XP

[dinosaurmath]

So I got hit with a wave of nostalgia and wanted to muck around with the Myth 2 demo (my install CD's have been mia for quite a while). I downloaded it from projectmagma and was set to go. However, the game simply changes my resolution and draws a black screen. The mouse still moves around, but nothing happens. At first I thought it must just be loading slowly... very very slowly... slower than TF2 or DOW2. But nope. It sits there until I kill the process. From the myth_log.txt:

2009-07-19 01:54:04
Myth II Build 329 running under Modern Windows 5.010000 ----------------------------------------------
Loading poweruser.txt... not found.
Scanning for software devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for Direct3D devices...
Found 1 to use
Scanning for 3Dfx devices...
Found 0 to use
Scanning for OpenGL devices...
Found 1 to use
Using GDI for Input
Mouse appears to have 5 buttons and 3 axes.
Initialized for DirectSound3D using COM

... and that's it.

I feel like there must be something idiotic that I'm overlooking or... I dunno. It's late and I wanted to hear the sweet sound of "casualty" once again. Any help is appreciated.

[Myrd]

Are your graphics drivers up to date?

[Melekor]

Frozen on black screen, sounds exactly like This post we had a while ago. Unfortunately we weren't able to solve that problem.

[dinosaurmath]

Ok, one post in that thread you linked made me try something that sounded like a longshot, but it worked. I was wondering if my monitor or my video card or whatever was having trouble with the 640x480 , 16bit that somebody referenced.

I unplugged my Dell2209WA monitor and plugged in a shitty 17" ViewSonic Display. The menu screen loaded right away and I was able to play around a bit on the first level, mostly blowing up my own men with the dwarves. CASUALTY. Unbelievable waves of nostalgia. So good.

Edit: After plugging back in my big monitor... it also works there. I didn't even change any GPU image scaling settings or anything. Color me fucking confused.

Thanks again, and you guys are fucking awesome to keep Myth alive like this.

[Pyro]

So I guess newer monitors don't like loading in 640x480 resolution. I hope something will be done about this in future updates.