I seem to remember that the game runs fine as long as you install the patch, but finding the patch now is no small matter. www.simonsays.com no longer hosts it, nor does gamespot which is what Wikipedia and other sites link to for downloading the patch. I wish I had archived it myself because now I cannot find anyone who has the patch for download.

I have the patch but am unable to get it to work. It stops saying it is unable to get the dll file for direct x.

I also had the install abort when trying to install directX.

I went to the program files/borg directory and started the borg.exe. It worked fine. Windows XP home SP3

I found the patch using the archive.org wayback machine for the link
http://www.simonsays.com/extras/patches/borgptch.zip

Good luck