New guy with problems

[UncleJames]

Hey all,

Played EQ Classic for years beginning in 2000.
Returned to Sony EQ a few months ago and heard about 1999 so I came here to relive the old school feel.
Now the trouble begins.
I just built a new system about 2 months ago. i7, Asus MB, 32G Ram, 256x2 SSD in Raid 0, 2x680GTX in SLI.. all watercooled.
It rocks and I can play almost anything on max (monitor is 2560x1600)
I dig out my old Titanium disks and load them up. Downloaded the EQEmuLauncher and ran it, after setting compatibility mode and run as admin.
EQEmu updated to 1.24 and when I selected Project1999 server it updated some files.
Ok.. launch the game. Short wait and screen goes white then I get an error message.

EQ Error.jpg

Thougth I may have messed up some permissions etc. so I set "full control" to the entire folder, then downloaded DirectX9.0 and installed just to make sure.
Same error.
Uninstalled all, rebooted and installed again.
Same error.

Anyone seen something like this before?
Could my SLI be causing problems?

Puzzled.