Hi Logger,
Welcome to the Forum !
Please register your copy of SSE at the Forum. This will allow you to access all the boards of the Forum including Technical Support. To register, click on Profile on the menu at the head of this page. In the Profile page which appears scroll down and you will find a box to enter the License key of your copy of SSE and then hit the Register button.
It seems that your PC does not satisfy the System requirements of SSE as indicated below:-
Nevertheless, please post the Dxdiag of your computer and it will give an insight. Please follow the post below which seems to be a case like yours and will offer some guidelines.
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,19986.0.html
Regards
vin_sun