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Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 15th, 2019, 10:04 am
by Aussie Steve
Hello,
I have been having a lot of issues trying to get Links to run on my new computer. It has windows 10. I have tried a couple of fixes that proshop has suggested but it has not helped. Any suggestions?

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 15th, 2019, 7:54 pm
by Stephen Sullivan
Have you got Links running with Administrator privileges? Do you have a separate graphics card or an Intel one?

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 15th, 2019, 11:20 pm
by Still Linksing
Don't install Links into Program Files
Install game
Install v1.07 patch

That's all that should be needed to get it to run.
If it doesn't work or work perfectly, tell us exactly what is happening.

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 16th, 2019, 10:37 am
by Aussie Steve
I have tried downloading it again and still no go.
My computer has an Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620.
I am running as Administrator.
It keeps coming up with "it runs minimum 800 x 600"
Any ideas?

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 16th, 2019, 11:50 am
by pmgolf
Sounds like you need to run the Nvidia graphics patch. It has more to do with giving you widescreen than Nvidia. Doesn't matter what video card you have.

Pete

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 16th, 2019, 3:30 pm
by Stephen Sullivan
Aussie Steve wrote: September 16th, 2019, 10:37 am I have tried downloading it again and still no go.
My computer has an Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620.
I am running as Administrator.
It keeps coming up with "it runs minimum 800 x 600"
Any ideas?
You might want to look at this thread viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 17th, 2019, 4:05 am
by Still Linksing
If everything is working and the only issue is 800x600 resolution check page 1, post 2 for "how" and page 2, post 3 for "to what"

http://linkscourses.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8442

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: September 30th, 2019, 6:50 pm
by Bassmaster
I have had only one issue with running Links 2003 on my laptop with Windows 10 and that was when I played around with the sky settings. I had to completely deleted Links and then reinstall it. I applied every patch there was including the Nividia patch. No issues what so ever playing Links. DO NOT CHANGE THE SKY SETTINGS!

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: October 1st, 2019, 2:59 am
by Still Linksing
Win 10 can cause completely different issues for different hardware. It can also cause issues that were never there before with same software on same hardware. eg You installed Links 3 years ago and it worked perfectly. You re-installed today and suddenly have issues. This can happen because Win 10 continually updates itself. Best to never uninstall a working program in Win 10 unless it is absolutely necessary.

Re: Links for Windows 10

Posted: October 6th, 2019, 5:01 pm
by lirff
Hi Guys, just reading this section and I remembered that I had a similar problem a few years back, this is how I fixed it (PS cut and pasted from LSPN)

hope it helps :-)

Re: Links 2003 Resolution
Postby terrell on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:21 pm

here's a quote from armand in a post by gibby:

gibby wrote:
Here's a link from Links Corner and some of the post
http://linkscorner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23683
Registry settings for specific resolutions:

15 - 1920 x 1200 (thanks, langle!)
14 - 1920 x 1080 (thank, Mick!)
13 - 1808 x 1008
12 - 1680 x 1050 *
11 - 1440 x 900
10 - 1366 x 768 **
9 - 1360 x 768 **
8 - 1280 x 960 **
7 - 1280 x 800
6 - 1280 x 768 **
5 - 1280 x 720
4 - 1600 x 1200 ***
3 - 1280 x 1024 ****
2 - 1024 x 768 ****
1 - 800 x 600 ****

* This only works on my computer in Full Screen Mode
** This only works in Windowed Mode on my computer
*** I know this value from my desktop computer
**** These are the original values from 1.05

I'm sure some can fill in 13 and 14. I believe 15 is the largest possible value.

Armand

How to change the settings as provided by Rehit:

this is a regedit, so be careful...
go to start, run, regedit.
click on the following entries

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Microsoft Games
LINKS 2003
Display Settings
terrell

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