When I run the game, I get the loading screen with the blood bottle (the dripping hourglass), and it begins to load..... and it keeps loading ~doesn't crash (yet), and slooooowwwly the blood drips to the bottom over the next 15 minutes. You can watch the bottom globe fill up line by line by line until it's full ~then the game sits like that indefinitely; next day it looks just the same as the day before. (I was curious to see if it would actually continue to load, so I left it on all night.)

I can guess that the OS [XP64] and RAM [12gb] have something to do with it, but it shouldn't be that way on a remastered re-release targeted for modern OSs (of which XP64 still is).

Has anyone else succeeded in getting Demonstone to work on XP or server 2003? (or with 12gb+ ram?)

I'd like to get it to run without building an AGP box with an old Radeon and '98 on it if I could. If I do that, then I might as well just install the game off of the DVD; I bought [my 2nd copy] from Gog because I had good reasons to believe that it had been altered as needed to work on a modern OS... and have been tested. Very few titles from Gog (previously) have given me any issue at all, and that's a big reason that I choose Gog over services like Steam.

I prefer to buy from Gog when I can... Will Demonstone ever get an update?

Here is the DirectX 9 Runtime:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109