Terry

It's a SNES emulator. So it really won't let you play the same games that Nesticle can. Follow this link: http://www.emuxhaven.net/index.shtml Take a look in the NES section and find an emulator that uses DirectX. It will most probably work on XP.

Assassin, Battlemage and Spellsword, I'd pick the Spellsword. He has better magic ability and better bonuses. But I do agree with Grifta. Unless you're a beginning player, I'd make my own class. You can pick what bonuses and abilities you want, which is one of the strongest points of the game.

I had a VIA motherboard, as did my brother. We both replaced them because of problems we were having with our GeForce cards. If you do have a VIA chipset, try this link for some help as well. http://www.viaarena.com We found help for some of the problems we had there. It might help you as well. My last AMD cpu was a 5x86, so I don't know much about the lastest chips they have. I do believe that the AMD Irongates (not sure what that is) had some kind of problem with GeForce cards. If this is your case, check out the nVidia site for information on that.