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I am able to run LS 2003 fine using DX 9.0.  As far as drivers, I can run LS
2003 with any nVidia driver, though version 30.82 performs the best.

I wouldn't blame driver issues on the game manufacturer; rather, it's the
fault of the video card drivers themselves, unless of course a game just
doesn't support a particular card.

I think your real problem, as it is with many people, is a problem with
Microsoft.  I have had absolutely no problems with LS 2003.

There are some things that I'd like changed, though.  First, the career mode
needs tweaking.  Course conditions and difficulty apparently have no bearing
on the leaderboard scores, which is a bad thing.  Second, I'd like to see
the user have the option to disable the waggle.

RTS-- though I don't play that method-- could use some tweaking also.  It's
also way too easy to edge with RTS.

Besides that I can't think of anything else that's wrong with LS 2003.  This
driver issue you speak of sounds as if it is computer configuration problem,
though I must admit that when I tried the 41.09 drivers the screen redraws
too forever.  The last decent set of drivers that nVidia has released were
the 30.82 drivers.

All in all, I think many are too apt to blame game problems on other things,
when most of the time is the users own configuration that is the real
problem.

BTW, Walter Kurtz... when MS first announced its XP Activisation policy,
weren't you the one over on the XP ngs slamming Microsoft?  I may be
mistaken here, but it sounds as if you just don't like Microsoft and
anything MS produces you're not going to be happy with.

Oh, well.  So be it.  I guess you're one of tens of millions that dislike
Gates because he makes a lot of money.  LS 2003 is a fine game, period.  I
have no issue with the game nor with Microsoft.

Have a good day,

Alanb
"Walter E. Kurtz" <Ku...@nungriver.com> wrote in message
news:GXjO9.17611$%3.4926996@twister.neo.rr.com...
> Unfortunately, Links 2003 has many, many problems. My sources say the
> Microsoft team expects to have a patch out "some time in January". These
> problems include such major factors as the one you mentioned and the fact
> you must downgrade TWO releases of nVidia drivers to be able to run the
> game. There's also bugs in the career mode and other anomalies.
>
> A real monkey fucking a football with this release by MS.
>
> Kurtz
> --
> "Do you know what the man is saying? Do you? This is dialectics. It's very
> simple dialectics. One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions.
> You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without,
> like, you know, with fractions. What are you going to land on, one
quarter,
> three-eighths, what are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or
> something -- that's dialectic physics, OK? Dialectic logic is there's only
> love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.."
>
>
> "Usenet Groups" <gordo...@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:GejO9.457957$P31.155160@rwcrnsc53...
> > I recently upgraded my Windows 2000 Professional installation to DirectX
> 9.0
> > and now Links 2003 will not load.  I have an ATI Radeon 9700
Professional
> > video card with the latest drivers from their website.  The game
> previously
> > worked properly under DirectX 8.1.  Any ideas?
> >
> > There are not any patches for Links 2003 that I am aware of.  I don't
know
> > if ATI needs to release a new driver to correct the problem or if it is
a
> > Microsoft problem.
> >
> > The error that I receive is as follows:
> >
> > 'Links 2003 has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry
> for
> > the inconvenience.'
> >
> > 'AppName:  linksmmiii.exe        AppVer: 22.7.8.241  ModName: ntdll.dll
> > ModVer: 5.0.2195.5400              Offset: 0004cfe8'
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> >
>
>