Just built a new system to replace my 9 yr old I7 Bloomfield system on which Links 2003 v1.07 runs fine (as it does on my 11 yr. old HP Pavilion 9500 laptop, and 13 yr. old Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop). The new system is thus:
ASROCK MB
Intel I7-6700 Skylake 3.4ghz CPU
Corsair 16GB Vengeance RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX1050 video card
WD 250 GB Boot SSD
WD 500 GB Data SSD
Lite-On 24X CD/DVD ODD
Windows 7 (64 bit)
I've read that some have had problems with Win7 64 bit, but that was working fine on my old system with an ATI video card. Since this one has the EVGA (Nvidia) GeForce GTX1050 card, I did apply the Nvidia patch, but to no avail.
When it crashes, I get the window which says :Links 2003 has stopped working. Under the details:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: LinksMMIII.EXE
Fault Module Name: Kernelbase.dll
Locale ID: 1033
What I've tried:
Re-installing Game
Running in XP SP 3 compatibility mode on one/all the *.EXE files (with and without Administrator priv.)
Ran Nvidia Links 2003 Final patch
Copied the Kernelbase.dll file from my working system to the 1033 folder on the new system
This is the LAST program I have to get running on the new system before I swap it out with the old system. I'm loathe to
swap out yet as I usually play in 4-5 online tournaments a week and play vs. a friend once a week, so I need to have this running. I've run out of ideas. Hoping someone else has come across this