Grand Theft Auto - Vice City Stories

[KaraZorEl]

Hello friends. I tried playing this game today. I have an issue with it (not sure what to do about it).

I've tried the US and EU versions. Both times, I can get the splash/intro screens to load. Then the game starts a loading bar. It gets maybe five percent full before it freezes. When I turned on the FPS counter, I saw that this had frozen as well, meaning that there was no new information being loaded in.

I am not quite sure what is causing this, or what I can about it.