needing help

Hello, i hope somone can help me , Heres my problem, I am currently playing the game Everquest, well trying to anyway, every time i try to get into the game it reads this error , ERROR COULD NOT CREATE DC AT W32STI_CALCFONT0: ERROR 0 , Then it proceeds to freeze up my entire system, ive tried reinstalling the game and reinstalling dirext x 9 , I have no idea what could be causing this error, if anyone has any advice i would be most appriciative, ill include some of my system info.

System Information]

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=D:\WIN98 /IE /NF /IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.00.2614.3500
Uptime: 0:20:37:37
Normal mode
On "ICARE" as "Computer Friend"
GenuineIntel x86 Family 15 Model 0 Stepping 10
512MB RAM
56% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (22051MB free)
Available space on drive C: 22051MB of 29166MB (FAT32)

if yall need any more info just let me know and ill post it, also you can conatact me at Blondangell04@yahoo.com
Thanks!