by Colin Jones 2021 on Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:58 am
Thanks gibby. I deleted my entire Links 2003 folder 2 days ago, after first backing up my stats, all the add-on courses and rosters (have different rosters for the US PGA Tour and the European Tour). I reinstalled the game from my original discs and restored all the data I had backed up. Ran the 1.07 upgrade and the career mode fix. Had to play around with settings to get the game to work after it started with a flashing black screen (WIN 8 compatibility mod, run as administrator), also had to experiment with the graphics settings. Had some strange effects with some of the higher resolutions, but 800x600 32 bit worked (my Nvidia GTX970 doesn't offer me 64 bit), everything now looks and behaves as it did. Managed to play 4 rounds in career mode and 3 rounds on the LSPN without any of my previous problems, although so far I have avoided the "play with another golfer" option. Then I started the final round at El Diablo today and there were two of me playing again, although there was nothing I had changed to have caused this. I completed the round with both incarnations, ensuring my doppelganger didn't score better than the real me. I just find it strange that, having played several hundred rounds on my current PC (bought May 2016) with no issues, things started going wrong after a large WIN10 update last August.