Okay, my character's name is Srenkarth Tralwyn; the game doesn't give any error message, it just refuses to load and stops responding, and eventually the screen becomes entirely black (before you even ask, I have tried waiting already for a long time with no results).
As for the rest that might take more time to gather...
Here's what I do know- I'm running on Windows XP... And that's pretty much all I know. My computer is practically built from scratch (although it depends on your definition of "scratch") but I don't know what all went into it since I did pretty much none of the construction.
PlaneShift ordinarily works fine on my computer, it runs fairly quickly and the only other bug I had before was the one caused by the psclient process not ending. I haven't had the problem since because I just open task manager and double-check every time I exit the game.