My borther in-law is having the same problem. He has an ATI Xpert@Play 98, which has a Rage Pro chip.
To play the game he lowered the Hardware Acceleration in the Display Applet, in Control Panel. Only bad thing is that it's slow.
By the way the Rage Pro supposedly supports both Direct3D and OpenGL, but he's never been able to run anything in OpenGL unless it uses software rendering. Not even Quake II which according to the box the card came in, is supported, as well as all games based on the Quake II Engine.