Max Payne on windows xp???

heya peeps

i've just bought a new computer athlon 64 bit etc with all the latest stuff in it. its running xp too

i was playing the max payne 1 demo and decided i'd buy the game since its cheap

but when it arrived i installed it it completed it but at the end there was a "the instruction at "0x771c732a referenced memory at 0x00169460. the memory could not be read please click ok to terminate the program" its a kernel.exe error

i tried to play the game and it lets me into the menu but when i select a game to play it loads half way and then just goes back to the desktop without any trace of the game still running.

does anyone know what could be wrong? thanx you