Newbie-ness showing through

[Snipp]

A friend of mine told me to try out EQEmu and so far i am digging it and am interested. i have installed, registered, and read through the readme.txt. i only have one problem..whenever i log on and select my server it gives me an error and the following is displayed as the reason:


EQGAME caused an invalid page fault in
module EQGFX_DX8.DLL at 017f:012a5d98.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=012a5d98 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=009ef9e4 EBP=00000010
ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=00000190 FS=5ee7
EDX=009ef9ec ES=0187 EDI=009efa04 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 52 50 ff 91 a0 00 00 00 5f 5e 83 c4 18 c3
Stack dump:
00000140 01069ac0 00000077 00000000 00000190 00000140 00000000 3f800000 00485131 021c40f0 0106c764 004921f5 0124e6e0 01069ac0 00000001 00000000

if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

thanks again in your efforts to help out, and keep up the good work!

Snipp
(email responses would be better chrono1251985@yahoo.com)