Finally managed to create a character after some help on the Dev site - I added : DisableVtxAGP = 1; to my client.cfg. Apparently it causes slower running but I've not hit that problem so seems to be an OK fix. - Thread is here http://dev.ryzom.com/boards/18/topics/5882?r=5898 If anyone wants to have a read.
Time to get getting-good-at-a-new-gaming! Thanks.
Time to get getting-good-at-a-new-gaming! Thanks.