Ah, I ran into somebody just a couple days ago who had a similar problem. It turned out the issue was with the graphics card driver, and seeing as you said yours was updated since last you played, I suspect you're getting a similar situation. Classic can be finnicky with certain drivers, and this fellow also had NVIDIA. I believe his problem got resolved when he reinstalled his graphics card.
If you have two or more graphics cards, try disabling your NVIDIA one and see if it will start when you use the other one.